quick update

Madelyn's 7th month of life outside the womb has been one full of growth and new adventures!
-Her 6-12 and 9 month sized clothes fit perfectly and are even almost a little too small in some cases. I feel like just yesterday I was able to still squeeze her into some of her 3-6 favorites. No idea what her height and weight are, suffice to say she's gettin huge!
-She uses a pincer (sp?) grasp to feed herself finger foods. A lot end up on her lap, and sometimes she shoves her index finger down her throat, but she's quite pleased. She lets out the cutest little belly laugh once she's picked up her little cereal puff, because you can tell she's so proud of herself.
-She is totally crawling now. Now just creeping and crawling in circles and backwards, but full on crawling. I was in the kitchen and she crawled in there to greet me (my living room and kitchen are one open area). It was pure happiness to see her cute little self come in to see me.
-She says, "mama". The verdict is still out on whether its intentional or not. One day I came home to her and she looked at me and said, "mama".
-I can finally see some toothbuds to go along with her randomly cranky moods. Two little pearly lines can be seen in her lower gums.

This has all happened in the last two weeks! I can't believe how quick it all happened! Not to be too much of a proud mother, but I didn't think my daughter could get any cuter until suddenly i saw her crawling with her little fluffy cloth diaper ghetto booty in the air. For a girl who never liked kids very much (and wasn't even that interested in cute babies,) I am sure loving being a parent to this little miracle.

Quick ME update (even though I'm not as interesting): I am content with my job situation and am finally adjusting to being a working mom. I find that going to work can be a little break from the enormous responsibilities of taking care of a home. Stay at home moms do not nearly get the recognition and props they deserve- it is a hard and stressful job! Even as an infusion RN, I sit more at work than I do at home!

Before I go, I had to share the cutest new toy I got Maddy. She LOVES it. This is a picture from Amazon, but I got it at my favorite toy store in St. Johns, Grammy and Nonni's.

http://s7d5.scene7.com/s7ondemand/zoom/flasht_zoom.jsp?&company=ToysRUsGSI&config=defaultZoom&zoomwidth=500&zoomheight=558&sku=p5863505