Harper {6} and {7} Months

Harper is {7} Months now, which officially makes her more than half way to her first birthday! We love this little girl so much! She lights up the world where ever she goes...

Here was our little princess at {6} months old. 

Height and Weight

At {6} Months she weighed 16 pounds and was 26.5 inches long.  She is right in the middle for her weight, but falls in the 75 percentile for her height. Shots are never fun, but she did pretty well with them. No fevers this time! That is enough to celebrate.

Harper has grown into size three diapers and is also wearing 6-12 month clothes. She is so long, so we even have her in some 12 month leggings. Our favorite things about her are those chubby, oh so kissable, cheeks and I am a sucker for wrist rolls.

Health

Harper is a healthy little girl. We did seem to catch a few colds a couple of months back, but hopefully we'll be able to stay clear of any more sicknesses. 

Sleep

Harper has become a champ sleeper. She loves a schedule and has become really great at following it. We put her down for bedtime at 8:30pm and she usually sleeps until 6:00 in the morning. Once we give her a bottle and change her, she is back down until 8:30am. We did go through a rough patch for a week or so, when she was learning to fall back to sleep once she rolled over onto her belly. We were having to go in her room and soothe her back to sleep with her Binky several times during the night, but I've decided it's part of sleep training and now she is sleeping great! She is belly sleeper for sure!

We have even managed to finally get a schedule going during the day. She usually takes naps around 11:00am and then goes down for a nap the same time as Camden around 2:00pm. 

Eating

Harper was introduced to solids this past month...and she doesn't love them. I think she would rather have milk, or have our food. We are slowly getting used to them though and she is slowly becoming a better eater. We feed her solids once or twice a day and feed her 4-6 ounces of formula every three or so hours. 

She really loves puffs and yogurt melts and has started to hold her own bottle. I forgot just how wonderful this milestone is and at the same time how sad it is that she is growing up so fast. 

New Things/ Milestones

 Harper is ALL.OVER.THE.PLACE. She doesn't quite crawl yet, she "army crawls" and uses her arms to get her where she wants to go. I'm not sure she'll ever get those arms and legs going at the same time. She has tried and then ends up army crawling because she can move faster that way. She does love to get up on her arms and legs though and rock back and forth. she also loves to do the head stand pose.

She can officially sit up all on her own. Just a couple of days ago she went from the crawling position and sat right up. She loves to watch Camden play and she is also starting to enjoy playing with toys, or anything else she can get her hands on. Everything goes in her mouth! She is starting to talk (and screech) a lot. She recently said Dada and Baba. 

Harper had been amazed by her hands. I catch her watching them a lot, especially when she does a waving motion. Harper loves to grab her feet and has started to try and eat all her shoes. She is also learning how to pull her bows off :( 

She of course still loves her dad and squeals in excitement every time he talks to her. 

We love you Harper Doodle. You are truly a blessing sent from our Heavenly Father. Everyone admires you and your big beautiful smile. No matter where we go or what we do, you are always smiling and taking it all in. You smile at everyone! You make everyone feel so great. Don't ever lose that special thing about you!