Jonny 7 Months

Jonny is seven months now and still refuses to eat real food.  Sometimes she acts like she's still hungry after nursing but nope.  Hates it.  Hates, hates, hates it.  Girl won't even open her mouth.  I think it may have to do with the fact that she doesn't so much like having her face touched.  She won't let me pick her eye gooks or her boogers, she hates when I wash her face and will often push kisses away.  So maybe me trying to stick food in her face is not cool.  She has started to occasionally give kisses though.  It's a rare occasion, but I love it.  She gives hugs too by just laying against us but those are also few and far between.  She's an interesting personality this girl.  She likes her space (meaning a small bubble but don't you dare move too far away from her.) and likes things exactly how she likes them, but she can also snuggle and loves to play and smile all day, and yet she's hard pressed for a laugh.  (Atticus is still the best at getting her to laugh.)  And she has a great angry cry when things aren't going her way.

How she really feels about eating.  Seriously tried everything, spoon feed, pouches, feeding herself, mesh bags, mashing up the food myself, etc

 

 

 

 

Eating is rough. 

She is loud.  She sings, yells, spits, and growls, much more often than she babbles.  All day.  She also LOVES wrestling.  She loves being tossed and pushed around and tickled.  I apparently need a better video of it.

She still sleeps great, though she has started waking every few nights a few times, she goes back down easily though.  She's not a fan of being rocked to sleep much.  We have to struggle a bit to get her settled but then she'll often sing quietly to herself while I rock her.  She also sucks her tongue as a self soothing thing.  Drives me nuts.

Sucked her tongue so hard she left a tiny bruise.

She's started pulling herself forward onto her hands and knees from a sitting position.  She rocks back and forth when she does that but hasn't figured out the crawling thing.  She also tries so hard to pull herself up onto things.  She can pull herself up to her knees but unless we help her along by positioning her feet in a better way, she can't pull herself all the way to her feet.  She also, in her attempts to crawl just ends up pushing herself backwards.  She can do her arms but not her legs so she ends up going away from what she wants and gets so frustrated.  Cue the great angry cry.

Trying to crawl around

She's started reach for us but for the most part, only if we reach for her first.  Every once and a while she'll reach first if she's being held by someone else and wants me instead or she wants picked up.  She also loves to repeat activities and silly things.  If we do something she likes she likes us to do it over and over, or she'll do something like drop something over and over for fun.

She was too busy trying to chew on her bear for pictures.

 We're cute. (Photo credit to Atticus)

Having some summertime watermelon.  Hers was in a mesh pouch and about the only thing I've seen her devour. 

 This was where she was sitting while she ate and the juices dripped down her whole body.

 Wearing Stefanie's hat

 

 Piggy tails!

 We finally found a spot for her bouncer.  The only door frame it fits on is Atticus' closet and it's great for them to play together.

 She loves bath time.  We mostly do sink baths and she loves trying to crawl all over the sink and often sets the sprayer into her face as she grabs at it.  

 Atticus wanted to take a picture just the same as Jonny.  Best little boy ever.

 Playing with her future best friend.

 Suddenly a big girl.

 This is how she binky's.  

(I don't know how to spell that non word) 

 I just love this picture and her concerned look.  Like, "Are you sure you want to give me that food?"

 Took a trip to Bear Lake with Dan's office.  Both my kiddos loved it. 

 Beach problems.

Fourth of July!

 Waiting for the fireworks!

 The fireworks made her a little nervous at first.  Whimpered a bit and a couple of cries but then she calmed down and eventually loved them.

Love this face.

  And this one.  (Surprisingly she doesn't mind us doing this.)

 Her shy smile.  She does this mostly to Dan, especially after she hasn't seen him all day.  She grins real quick and then hides her face.  It's adorable.

I think I'll keep them.