Capri Monthly-7 months

11/19/14

Miss Capri Juliet, you are getting to be such a big girl! You have four teeth now! The top two popped through this month, but are not fully grown out yet. Fortunately, they came in much easier than the bottom teeth. You didn't sleep much for a few days while they were coming through (plus you had a cold), but other than that, you were great. You are doing better in your carseat lately, and you are now big enough to ride in the grocery cart without being in the carrier. You love going for walks, taking baths, eating, playing with toys, and watching Ellery. You are sitting on your own now (although you often fall over after a few minutes, but typically you fall gently onto your stomach or side). You are eating more table foods. You can eat a lot of what we eat for dinner (veggies and chicken and rice and things like that. We just break them into cheerio sized pieces for you). You love to be apart of the dinner table eating with us. You love to play with the princess castle and little people toys. But really, any toy (or any object I'll let you have) will do : ) We put you in a little study at Texas Christian University. You went at 6.5 months and will go back at 12 and I think 13 months. It was to determine the emotional and phycological influence from babies being raised by both a mother and a father. They hooked you and Daddy and me up to all these monitors and then had us do some little tests. The first was to put you in a high chair and have Daddy talk to you and play with you for two minutes, then not talk to you and just give you the poker face for two minutes, then talk to you and play with you again for two minutes. Then I did the same thing with you. Then they did a bunch of little tests like giving you a mirror to see what you did with it, cheerios to see if you could pick them up, objects to see if you could put them from one hand to the other, see if you could put things into a cup, or take them out, etc. Mostly everything just went straight into your mouth. After the tests they analyzed you and said you are completely normal and right where they would expect you to be at 6.5 months. We weren't worried ha. But you had fun doing the study and Ellery loved playing in the play room with one of the grad students while we did it, and we got a gift card to Target for it. haha. Thanks for letting us do experiments on you : P You are such an easy going, happy baby. You bring so much delight and joy to our family. P.S. How cute are you ^ ?!?! (the cutest!!)