20 Questions with Grace at Age 6

Grace at Age 6:

What is your favorite color? Silver
What is your favorite toy? Just to draw and color
What is your favorite fruit? Bananas and vegetables: zucchini and carrots
What is your favorite TV show? Kids Baking Championship
What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Pasta
What is your favorite outfit? Sequin Shirts and Matilda Jane
What is your favorite game? Puzzles
What is your favorite snack? Cream Cheese Chives Crackers
What is your favorite animal? Swans and Toucans and Horses
What is your favorite song? The Tequila Song (said "Tuh-qwila" and it's a country song - I'm embarrassed)
What is your favorite book? Piggie and Gerald and Go, Dog, Go!
Who is your best friend? Peyton and Guilherme
What is your favorite cereal? Fruit Loops
What is your favorite thing to do outside? Ride my bike and play with friends
What is your favorite drink? Water and Unsweet Tea like my mommy
What is your favorite holiday? My birthday
What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Lambi and Tilly Turtle
What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Cereal and pancakes from Ihop
What do you want for dinner on your birthday? Daddy's Chicken and Granny Irene's Mac & Cheese
What is your favorite movie? The Greatest Showman
What do you want to be when you grow up? Pet Rescuer or Art Teacher

Hazel is 7 months old

Here are her stats at 7 months old:

• She weighs 14 lbs. 13 oz. (so this is less by 1 oz. than her 6 month appointment, which is interesting! I only know this weight because I took her in for an ear infection 4 days before she turned 7 months)
• She is in size 3 diapers
• She is in size 6-9 month clothes.
• She is still a great sleeper! She generally will be asleep by 7:30 or so at night, but even if it's 9:00, she will still sleep 12 hours before she is ready to be awake.
• I am still putting her in her sleep sack for bedtime, but not nap time. She usually will hang out when she wakes up and roll around and play. I think the sleep sack keeps her from moving as well, so I've stopped using it at nap time.
• She is still taking one good nap a day that might last 2-3 hours and then catnaps either when nursing or on a car ride. That nap is usually around noon, since she doesn't wake up until 8:30 or so. 
• She is eating more baby food. She has had carrots, peas, and peaches in baby food form and still loving bananas in her food masher. And, she acts like she knows exactly what to do with her sippy cup when she reaches for it!
• She has just started trying puffs. She can't really get them into her mouth by herself, but once it's in there, she gums it down.
• She is still nursing about 5 times a day. Although lately, I feel like we've been so busy, I haven't gotten to really enjoy my nursing times; but, I am going to start slowing down to make sure I enjoy them more. It's the sweetest time and while I usually have at least one other kid talking away to me, I try to find at least one nursing a day to just be with me and Hazel.
• She is the cutest thing when she grins while nursing. This is always one of my favorite things my babies have done - smile while latched!
• She is very mobile in my arms. She wants to be held all the time, but also moving around while being held. Does that make sense? She doesn't want me to leave her on the floor and walk away, but once in my arms, she is reaching for things and pulling my hair and turning around or trying to stand on my legs when I sit down. She is a busy bee!
• She is still sitting up great. 
• To move around, she will push herself up on her arms and push herself backwards to move back. She is not thinking too much about crawling yet.
• She has not attached herself to a particular toy yet.
• She loves to be naked. Really! As soon as I get her diaper off of her in the morning and before I get a new one one and put clothes on her, she just smiles and kicks and is the happiest baby!
• She still likes the bathtub, but only lasts a little while. She splashes and plays and then gets cranky and wants out.
• Her skin has been so dry lately and we are greasing her up constantly to avoid those red, dry patches. And she still has terrible cradle cap.
• I've noticed her little hands and feet being kind of cold and blue again lately. I know this is just normal for babies, but mostly in the morning after I get her up, I spend time rubbing them to warm them up and make them pink again.
• She LOVES to watch her big siblings and they are getting VERY comfortable with her. They love to pick her up and carry her and Atticus and Grace are actually very helpful. They will play with her, giver her puffs, bring her toys, carry her around and are just the best big siblings. Everly, although younger, wants to copy them. She even wants to carry her! Yikes! But, she loves her so much.
• Everly calls her Hazel Basil all the time and I love it!
• She loves to grab my face for those open mouthed kisses!
• She got another ear infection this month...when will they end??
• She is just growing and getting sweeter all the time!