Brooke at 7 months...

Dear Brooke,

Today you are 7 months old, we can hardly believe it! Would you please stop growing up so fast!! With each day that goes by, you continue to bring the biggest smiles to our faces. You are such a happy girl, and love to cuddle and get kisses which is a very good thing, because you sure get a lot! You giggle when we nuzzle your neck and tickle your tummy and then proceed to attack us with one of your big open mouth drooly kisses! Oh how we love those!

You love to "scoot" every where, you can get across the room no problem, and usually end up in weird places like between the couch and the side table stuck in some odd position! You are trying your absolute hardest to actually "crawl." You are up on all 4's, ready to go, rocking back and forth, it will be any day now that you take off and go!!

You are trying to pull yourself up on things now too! We catch you grunting and pulling up on your activity table, getting your little booty a few inches off the ground...you are so close!! You still love to bounce too, and love jumping on our laps when we hold you up! Hopefully this means you will have some sort of vertical, unlike your mommy!

You are still eating and sleeping like a champ. You absolutely love food...(a true Taurus...just like mommy!)...and are moving on to more table foods every day! Right now you love Ritz crackers! We haven't weighed you recently, but 3 weeks ago when we took you into the doctor for a cold, you were 22lbs. Yes, you are a "chunky chunk" as your daddy calls you!! We love it, your thighs and arm rolls are too darn cute! Because of your monster weight gain, we had to take you out of your infant car seat (my arms thank you!) and you are now in you big girl car seat!

You are just such a happy, smiley, tongue sticking out, exploring little girl, who we love so much!! It is the most amazing thing watching you learn and grow and do all sorts of new things and get so happy when you do it! We love you Brookie...here are all the things you have done over the past month...

Our happy, tongue sticking out 7 month old!

Scooting away with your army crawl...and so close to an actual real crawl!

Putting those big thighs to use and scootin' all over the place!

You clearly won the push up contest with your brother!!

Falky Boot Camp...when our kids our naughty, we make them drop and give us 50!

So close to crawling!!

Oh how we love those cheeks!!!

So happy when you are in your high chair, about to be fed!

This is how you wake up every morning...SO HAPPY!! It is the best thing in the world going to get you out of your crib and seeing that big smile in the morning!

Ok, now what?!! You are so close to crawling, you just have to go!!

You love feeding yourself!!

We just love that smile!

And that tongue is still always sticking out!

You are so mobile now, you can go from sitting to crawling, and back up again!

Trying to pull yourself up!!

You can do it!

We can't wait for Christmas!

Playing in the sand at the park, Brookie wasn't too sure what to make of the stuff!

I just love those arm rolls and droopy cheeks!! Brooke sat there forever touching the sand trying to figure out what to do with it!

One of the last times in your infant car seat...you have now switched over to a big girl seat!!! You are still a really good passenger in the car, we are very lucky!

You still love going for runs/walks with your brother and me in your stroller!

You are quite the bouncer!!

You love it when your brother helps feed you!

Your very first Halloween!

Bows in your hair...tongue sticking out...double chin...dimple...belly...we love it all!

You are just so precious!

You love that tongue of yours!

Our happy little girl!

Love that happiness!

You love the swing!!

You at 6 months old...it's amazing how much you've grown since then!!