Seven Months and the Start of the Christmas Season!

Sophia is officially seven months old!  This past month has brought lots and lots of change for her.  About 2 weeks ago, she started crawling and now is an old pro at it, speeding across the living room and attempting to get into all sorts of things that she is not supposed to (like trying to crawl onto the bottom shelf of the coffee table).  We have also been trying several new foods - fruits are a big hit (she loves pears, apples and prunes) but vegetables are pretty much a no-go at the moment (peas are tolerable, avocado brought a significant gagging response and sweet potatoes are blah).  The last few days, Sophia has been exceptionally fussy and today, we realized that it was because she appears to be cutting her first two teeth.  We can just about see the little baby incisors appearing underneath her lower gums.  We hope that they completely appear soon, as we would like our happier baby back!

Christmas is just around the corner, so we spent the day reorganizing the house and decorating.  We had a water heater leak a few weeks back so things have been a little unorganized while things were being repaired.  We had no idea how much damage a broken water heater could do - we had to have someone come out to make giant holes in the wall (in our third bedroom and the garage), then have very noisy heaters dry things for three days, followed by a repair crew to repair/repaint the walls and then a carpet person in to replace carpet padding and clean the carpet.  Needless to say, we were happy when that was all over!  Sophia was fascinated with us decorating for Christmas, especially the Christmas tree lights.  We can't wait until later this month and spending time with everyone!