Sunday, August 25, 2002 -- 7 months and counting...

Dags is 7 months today.

I was looking through all the pics we've taken of her and I can't believe how much she has changed. She gotten so big! And she's getting more beautiful by the day.

She's really starting to show some personality and she loves interacting with us. Some guaranteed ways to make her smile and giggle are to sing and sign the alphabet, sing Itsy Bitsy Spider, pretend to eat any and all of her body parts, and her favorite - Super Dagny (lift her up over your head and fly her around).

I'm so happy I've made it this far nursing. Not only have I yet to get my period back, but nursing a 7 month old is soooooooo easy. The first 3 months were fairly hard. The second 3 months were okay. But now it's a quick 5 minute nursing every 3 hours or so during the day with 4-7 hour stretches at night.

She also gets her rice cereal in the morning mixed with milk I've pumped at night, a few bites of something around lunch time, and a jar of veggies at dinner time. She LOVES the veggies - sweet potatoes, squash, carrots, and peas. She won't eat jarred fruits, so I bought some organic bananas and peaches at Whole Foods and I'll be mashing them up for her. I think it's the ascorbic acid that they add to the fruits - it makes them too tart.

And she is just the easiest baby. When she's not teething she might go for days without crying at all. Although, now that her mind wants to crawl but her body isn't quite ready, she's doing many "face plants" as Pete calls them. She did one on the hard wood floor at my neighbor's and got a fat lip. That made her cry pretty hard. Poor thing. But she's working on it.

We have about 2 weeks until our busy Fall schedule starts. I've signed us up for a lap-sit program at the library for Tuesday mornings. It's a half hour story time for 2 year olds and under. We've got Baby and Mommy Yoga on Wednesday mornings. I go to my craft group on Thursday mornings and she goes to the church nursery for about 2 hours then. And then we've signed up for the Swim and Gym program at the Y on Saturday mornings. It's a 45 minute program for 6-12 month olds. These programs are all fairly short, so I'm hoping it isn't too much. If it is we'll drop something. I'm also hoping to try out for my community theater's fall production of "Bedroom Farce" - so I'll need Pete to take care of her a few evenings a week. I haven't figured out where I'm going to fit working out into all of this - other than the yoga.

So at 7 months post-partum my weight has plateaued at 155-160lbs. So I had lost all of my pregnancy weight in the first 2 weeks + 10 pounds, then I gained back 5-10 and that's where I am. *sigh* I guess it could be much worse. I'm eating anything that's not nailed down again, so I guess Dagny's having another growth spurt. I'm thinking I just need to keep the exercise/weight training thing in gear - because there is no way I can do anything with my diet while I'm nursing.

I guess that's it for now. Here are more pics:

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