Bri'elles 6th & 7th Month Mark

I swear life goes by faster when your a parent. Bri'elle is just a little over 7 months old and I just can't believe it. I know every parent watch days go by and wonder where the time went especially parents of parents. Bri'elle missed her 6th month appointment because I though it was one week and it ended up being the week before. We weren't able to get her another appointment until she was just shy of 7 months old. In a way it was better because she became effective with her medical coverage a day before her appointment and we switched her pediatrician, so she was able to see her new doctor.
At her appointment she weighed in at 19lbs and 8.5 ounces and then was 27 3/4 inches. The doctor said she is between 80 and 90 percent above average which is wonderful. About a week later Jay took Bri'elle to her WIC appointment and she had already gotten to 20 pounds and 28 inches. That was a quick growth spurt. Now that she is a big girl. She can go in her big girl car seat. We are going to get it out of storage this week and try it out. I think she is going to be very excited. Whenever she does something new we tell her "what a big girl" or "your a big girl" and she gets a huge smile on her face. You can tell she knows she did something new/good.
There is so much more a little baby can do and how much they learn at the stage she is at. She now eats big girl food: her crackers, and then we give her soft people food like avocados, bananas, melons, beans, pasta, etc. We started her on a sippy cup. She almost has the whole drinking process down but she still sometimes will try to drink it backwards or upsidedown. We noticed the over these last few weeks she has learned how to through a fit. Her little legs lock up and she tries to scoot and then gives you her poutty lip face. Its so cute but we have been reminding ourselves that you can't let them get away with it. I read in a book that this age is the perfect time to start discipline. Right now it is the NO stage. If she does something she shouldn't do we tell her very firmly "NO!" and look her in the eye. You can't smile or let up and then we disctract her with a toy or whatever. So far its working pretty good. She is catching on to the word. On a sweeter side of baby life she knows how to give kisses. This is one of the best things. She doesn't give them freely though. If you gotten a kiss from her and you ask for another one she may or may not give you another kiss. It is soooo funny especially when she starts to give you a kiss and then takes it away. Bri'elle loves to stand and will try to pull herself up to anything that she can grab. She hasn't mastered crawling yet its more like the army crawl backwards or she flips herself over to quick to even stay on her belly long enough to attempt to crawl. A few more things she does is dance, "ride the horsey"-we call it-she knows how to bounce up and down like she is riding the horsey when you do the click click sound to make a horse go, does patty-cake but likes to hold your hands, she does this thing that will probably be hard to explain on here but I'll try so bare with me....She puts her lips together and goes "pppphhhhh" and sometimes spit comes out. It so darn cute!
There are so many things she has been doing. I will put together a whole post of "new" things for her 6/7 month mark of pictures and hopefully some videos.