Eleanor at 7 months

Ella Grace loves trying to drink from her sippy cup
Practicing holding her bottle
Watching the family from her highchair

Taking a snooze

Eleanor loves mealtime! She especially loves peas, green beans and pears and does not particularly care for sweet potatoes right now. When she is in her highchair being fed, she "talks" and makes happy noises the whole time. She eats three meals a day now. She has rice cereal with half a jar of baby food in the morning about an hour and a half after her bottle when she wakes up. At lunch she eats another small jar of baby food and at dinner she eats rice cereal mixed with half a jar of a fruit or vegetable again. She is drinking 6-8 oz. bottles on a regular basis now in between meals. Eleanor is starting to try to hold her own bottle and usually does a better job with it if there is not much formula left in the bottle.  She also has been starting to hold and drink a little bit from a sippy cup (although she usually ends up with half the water from the cup all over her front!). 

Eleanor also loves playing on her tummy and rolling across the living room or playroom floor. She can also scoot backwards when she is on her tummy, but I don't think that she realizes that she is doing it. Eleanor definitely makes a great effort to find objects if she drops them or if they are "hidden" under something else. Her favorite thing to play with it any king of tag-tags on toys, bibs, and the many tags on a "taggie" blanket that her "Aunt" Kelly made when Caroline was born. She will turn the little blanket around and around until she has put every ribbon "tag" in her mouth and made them all soaking wet.

She is definitely our little observer. She still LOVES to watch her older sister and will laugh and laugh at what Caroline is doing (even if Caroline isn't meaning to be funny!). She will jump and play in her exersaucer, while keeping an eye on everything that is happening around her. She is just such a mellow, happy baby all day...now if only she were like that every night, too!