Our Little Houdini turned 7 Months Old!

Kaitlyn's 7 months old!!! Time surely flies, and when you have a child, you can actually SEE time moving forward so fast because you can see your child grow up and change each day.

Now that Kaitlyn's getting more and more mobile every day, we really have to start watching her all the time. On Saturday, because it was very very hot, we put her downstairs on the sofa bed for her afternoon nap. I wrapped her, secured her with a thin blanket weighed down with heavy books on each side, then put heavy wood high-back chairs on the side of the sofa bed. I left her there to sleep thinking she'd be safe. She did sleep for about an hour, then I heard her crying. I thought it was just her normal, "I am awake now, come and get me cry", so I did as Tresillian taught us, and waited 5 minutes before going to her. When I came downstairs, I couldn't find her on the sofa!!! I totally freaked out... where the heck was my baby!!!?? I looked around, and found... She had somehow wiggled herself out of her wraps, out of the bedding, and moved about 3 meters up the head of the sofa bed, fell about 50cm, then landed on the floor, under the high chair~~!! I have no idea how she did it but it was surely scary for me, I couldn't help but keep thinking of all the things that could've gone wrong, e.g. she had landed on her head (she probably did but she didn't act like she was in any pain), or things could've landed on her etc. I checked her everywhere and couldn't see any major cuts/bruises. We did find during bathing that night, that she had a nasty bruise on her back and a red mark on the top of her head. /sighs... I think I need to make sure I put her in her cot for naps from now on. It's a good things the air conditioners were installed yesterday.

We took her to Manly yesterday, and she loved the walk along the ocean. Although I think she loved watching the other kids, and all the dogs, more than she was paying attention to the sea. She's quite a social butterfly.

Her teething sort of just stopped. She doesn't drool nearly as much as she did a month ago, and the 2 little white buds I saw before sort of just "went back down". Ah well, it doesn't bother me that she doesn't have teeth yet, as I doubt I would enjoy being bitten. :)

We are still breastfeeding with only 1 formula feed at night. We may start increasing the formula feeds, starting with the afternoon meal, then maybe the morning meal as well, and only keep breastfeeding for early morning. I am so happy that we lasted this long. I am enjoying every minute of breastfeeding because I am not sure when it will end. But I know whenever she weans, I've done the best I could and I have absolutely no regrets.