But I don't yearn for the newborn days. Being a therapist that worked with children, all I wanted to see was growth, milestones met, goals achieved. I look forward to her crawling and walking, swimming, jumping, talking, saying mama, much more then I like looking back. I actually had another mom explain the first few months of her daughters life to me, and a light switch went off...."YES, me too!"
What did she say? She said she felt like she missed out on the first few months of her daughters life because of postpartum depression.
First though, we'll talk about the good (because tears in the first 5 minutes of writing are never a good way to start).
Charlotte was one of the first names I mentioned to Jeremy that I liked. I wanted to nickname her Charlie...so cute, right?! When our sweet babe entered the world and we brought her home, Jeremy started calling her Lottie. I was not so sure about this new nickname, but I didn't feel like Charlie fit her either, she's too girly for it I think. But the more he used Lottie, the more it grew on me.
So what's our Lottie up to these days?
- She's 15.5 pounds, 25.25 inches long
- Rolling
- Sitting independently
- Army crawling
- Standing with one hand support
- "Dances" when her music toys play
- Trying to walk along the couch
- Starting to sign milk and wave
- Going underwater at swim class (holding her breath and closing her eyes)
- LOVES splashing in the pool and bath water
- Eating mashed: bananas, carrots, avocado, and pears - and a mixture of them as well
- Almost sleeping through the night
- 2+ naps/day
Well...after all that good stuff, I don't want to relive the bad. So for today, I think I'll end it with some adorable 7 month pictures of beautiful babe.
