Cailey is 7 Months Old

Cailey turned seven months old about a week ago (I’m a little bit behind on my posting).  She weighs 15.2 pounds and is 26 1/2 inches long. 

Cailey has become really good at sitting unassisted.  She can lean over and reach toys and then sit back up again.  She can also go from sitting to lying down.  Cailey is very close to crawling.  She wants to crawl so badly but she just hasn’t figured out how to do it.  I guess that she will be crawling within the next week or two.

I looked at some seven month old pictures of Sawyer and saw that he was drinking from a sippy cup, holding his own bottles and eating some beginner solids like Puffs and teething biscuits.  Sawyer was already crawling by seven months and starting to pull himself up onto his knees.  I was surprised to see how much further along he was than what  Cailey is.  Obviously some of these things are dependent upon the parent.  I had not even thought of giving Cailey beginner solids yet.  I also hadn’t given her a sippy cup or tried to get her to hold her own bottle.  It seems as though I was so much more eager for Sawyer to learn/accomplish new things than I am with Cailey.  Maybe because Sawyer was first and it seemed like so much more of a big deal with him.  It could also be that Cailey is my baby and my last child so I am wanting her to stay a baby as long as possible . . . the less she does on her own, the more baby-like she seems.  With Sawyer, I think I pushed him a lot harder to learn stuff but with Cailey I am leaving her to just learn stuff in her own time.

I expected Cailey to grow the same way that Sawyer did so I bought her size 12 month clothes for winter (I typically buy clearance clothes a season ahead).  She is not quite keeping up with Sawyer so 12 months will definitely not be fitting her during the early part of the winter.  I put Cailey in her size 12 month winter jacket to see if it would fit . . . I guess we will have to figure something else out