7 Months!

How can my baby be SEVEN months old?! It seems like all of the sudden she has SO much personality and is simply the sweetest baby we can imagine. We adore her.



Facts about Abigail this month:

1. Weight: at 6 months she weighed 15 lb 9 ounces, which showed me it looks like she's gaining roughly 1 pound per month, so my best guess for this month is somewhere around 16 1/2 pounds.

2. Height: I have no idea

3. Diapers: size 2

4. Clothing: She is mostly in between sizes right now. She can still wear lots of 6 month stuff, 6-9 month stuff fits great, and she's also pretty much wearing all the 9 month clothing that we have. It's nice because I have a lot of options for her, but I never really know quite what size to buy. I'm typically buying 9 month stuff and she can usually wear it.

5. Eating: Abigail nurses 5 times a day (roughly around 7:00, 10:00, 1:00, 4:00, and 7:00). She also eats baby food 3 times a day (roughly around 7:45, 11:30, and 5:45). She eats fruits in the morning, fruits and some sort of veggie at lunch, and then veggies and the "meats" at dinner. We just started the little meat baby foods. I haven't made any more of her food since the first time I did, although we still have plenty of it and she eats it. With how much we're traveling I usually just end up giving her purchased food. I could say that I don't have time to make it, but I could find time. The truth is, I'm just not super into it. Maybe I will get back into it later on. Who knows. :)

6. Abigail has become a great sitter! She can sit totally by herself and it's so nice to be able to sit her down on her quilt with some toys and walk away for a minute or two.

7. No teeth yet but I feel like we'll see one any day. She will chew on ANYTHING.

8. This is a weird fact, but her hair has grown so much in the past month and I love it. It looks like we might have a little blondy on our hands.

9. No crawling, but I'm starting to see some signs of a desire to move around. She is a lot better about tummy time now, reaches for things and tries to scoot, without much luck.

10. She hands out open mouth kisses all the time and I love it so much I can hardly stand it.

11. Whenever David comes home from work she lights up. She'll smile, starting gasping and kicking her legs and making noises until he comes over to her. It's the sweetest thing in the world. David gets a sweet homecoming every day.

12. She loves for me to read books to her and typically wants to eat the book. This teacher Momma will take any reading time she can get.

Time with Abigail gets sweeter by the day and I love every minute with her. Happy 7 months little girl!

Updates

A lot has happened since my last post. Like I wrote before, we sold our house to people who wanted us out in two weeks and were working hard to get everything ready to do that. A week before moving (originally set for June 15), they backed out. Just left. We were so mad and then had to get our house ready to go back on the market!

The people who bought it found a bigger house and just rolled out, even after making all of their insane demands and wanting us out so quickly. It's hard to believe that there are people out there who behave like that...doing whatever they want and not caring how it affects anyone else. Ok, vent session over.

After a complete emotional breakdown on my part about the state of my house and trying to figure out HOW I was going to get it back in shape for showings, David and I got to work and got it done. They back out on a Saturday, and we had a showing on the following Monday when we were back on the market. They came back for a second showing on Tuesday (this is last week) and we had it sold again by Wednesday! This is a young couple, about to get married, who are buying it to live in...not eventually rent out. I am much more excited about this couple. So, we close July 17 now.

This past weekend, we went to Little Rock to work on the new house! We built a fence halfway, painted Abigail's trim and walls, and began work on the living room trim. We couldn't have done it without the help of our family and friends. Mom and Dad did SO much pre-work inside and got Abigail's room done from top to bottom in ONE DAY. Mike scoped out the fence and basically had us set to start bright and early Saturday morning. John and Ben and David's cousin Kirk worked tirelessly getting the holes dug for the posts and our friends Jay and Katherine even came over and joined in. Jay sweated it out in the backyard and Katherine hopped herself right up on a ladder and started painting trim! We were SO THANKFUL. Thank you everyone!

The best laid plans...

Sometimes the best plans we make just aren't what happens. As I've blogged before, our house has been for sale for right at about a month and on Sunday evening we went under contract! It was our plan to head to Little Rock to close on our house there on June 7. Then I would stay the week and paint and and get things ready for us to move in. David would come back to Little Rock the next weekend and finish building our backyard fence for ole Deuce dog and then we would go back to Kansas City together for 2 more weeks until David's program was over. Moving day was June 29. Well...



...this buyer, who happens to own Oklahoma Joe's BBQ, wanted us out sooner than that. We move to Little Rock next Friday! No going for a week and painting for me, no two final weeks in Kansas City before moving home, no completing Deuce's fence! This Sunday is our last Sunday at LBC and all of our family is coming up to help us move next weekend. We close June 14. David is going to try and cram his schedule tight so he only has about a week and half to be up here by himself to finish up the AEGD. Once moving in next weekend he will come back to KC for about a week and half to finish things up and then come to Little Rock for good. We're still working on where he will stay etc.

Although things have moved quickly, we are thankful. More than thankful. We are thrilled about our new house and grateful to have sold this one so easily. Once we close on the new house this weekend I'll put a picture of it up and give some details. For now, I've got major boxes to pack! :)