Angelica is 7 months old!

I'm late on this update - it's been a rather busy few weeks since she turned seven months! It was right after Christmas (December 29th) when she had her seven month birthday, and right after that was New Year's, then back to work and I also started my master's degree. Anyway, look at our smiley little girl! She's such a happy kid. She's finally making up for those first few months where all she did was cry, because now she is all smiles, all the time. It's great!

Here is a slideshow of photos from Christmas, including some professional ones we got done at Sears.. Her first Christmas was AWESOME. I swear, it's like they opened up a Toys R Us store in our apartment now. She had a really good time though, she even helped open a few of her presents.

She's hit a few more milestones recently. Let me think what I may not have covered already...she's up to six words now! She says "mama", "dada", "baba", "kitty", "ducky", and her latest one, "ah-choo!" Which is exactly what you think it is. She sneezed, her daddy said "ah-choo!" and she replied with "ah-choo!" It is really freaking adorable!

Also, we've started moving onto more solid foods, namely puffs. She got them for the first time on Christmas, they were a gift in her stocking. She loves them and she's gotten it down to a science how to pick one up from her tray and get it into her mouth. So far, we haven't had any major mishaps with them, other than on Christmas day, she plopped down on the floor and got one stuck in her throat in the process, and gagged and threw up all over her pretty dress. So now she only gets them when she's strapped in her high chair.

We also took her to her first Santa Land, hosted by my company. This picture is of all of us at the cookie decorating table. I have another picture from that day, showing her trying to eat a gingerbread cookie (she didn't succeed). She did succeed that day, though, in taking a huge bite from her daddy's italian ice when he wasn't looking. He left it on a spoon and she just helped herself.

Going back to milestones, you'll see in this picture, she's got the standing thing down now. In addition to standing, she dances. Anytime there's music, she just starts bouncing up and down or swaying side to side. It's like some sort of knee-jerk reaction how she does it, too. She doesn't just kind of ease into it...nope, the second music starts it's like a violent, "OH MY GOD I MUST SHAKE MY BABY TUSH" reaction. It's freaking adorable. She does it a lot when playing with this table, because just about every button on it plays music.

About two weeks ago, she started waving! This is really cute. She doesn't do it all the time, but we were walking around the mall one afternoon and she was waving at everyone we walked past. She also waves every time we walk through a door. This includes her bedroom door, so it's like every morning, she leaves her room and starts waving to the world. She also waves to everyone when we walk in the door at day care.

Finally, this past week marks two new milestones: she can successfully hold her own bottle (whew...this may be one of the only milestones she's slow on!), and she's FINALLY SLEEPING THROUGH THE NIGHT. You heard it here, folks...for the past five days, she has gone down to sleep around 9pm and not stirred until 7am (or, in some cases, 8am) the next morning. Of course, I'm sure now that I've said this, she'll start waking up at 2am again...but this is huge for us. Not only do we not have to worry so much about alternating nights, she's also starting to wake up at a convenient time for us for work so nobody's getting up super early (except on the days where she wakes up at 6am).

I think I've pretty much gotten everyone up to date! I'll make sure to keep up on the posts better from now on :)