sweet seven month sophie

Sophie just might be even more dramatic than Maya. She seems to savour extreme emotions. Wherever could that trait have come from?

When she is upset, her cry is heart-wrenching, her face conveying desperation, anger, betrayal, impatience, disapproval. And when she is amused or excited, her eyes shine and her delighted shrieks carry the exact sound of perfect happiness.

All other times, she is just plain loud. Yelling, babbling, grunting....waiting for someone, anyone to just look at her. If you are the lucky one that looks,... the smile you receive is (seriously) healing, pure contentment, wonder, love.

A few times this week, she's been waking up around 3AM... very unhappy, uncomfortable?, mad, hungry? Not fun.

Hopefully tonight is a peaceful one. Though I do kind of miss her, now that she's sleeping... I really need the sleep.

This video is from a couple of weeks ago (I might be 'stretching it' a bit to call this actual vocabulary development... but she DID say it:) ...she's actually crawling now too (you can see her eagerly rocking on all fours here)... a little unconventionally at times, and kind of slow, but definitely crawling.

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She said that she still remembered this pumpkin.

Can you believe it?

I'm six months old! (almost seven, really.)

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Sophie is trying so hard to crawl. She loves to be on all fours (hands and toes, usually). Her best displays of strength and balance are in the perfect yoga "down dog" poses she frequently demonstrates. I haven't captured it on camera yet.
She likes to be up on her knees too, and often thrusts herself forward into a face plant...Rolling is still a far more effective mode of travel for her these days.

She's also gotten rather noisy. Her little voice is getting stronger and her vocabulary of sounds is growing too. Most often, she says, "Brrrrrrrrrr" her favorite raspberry blowing sound. But her discovery of consonant and vowel combinations is so fun to hear now "Bah-BAH-BA-BUH!" The one that melts my heart, though....is "MA-mmmuh-muh-MA."


The photos I've posted here don't reveal some of the most recent changes I've noticed in six-month Sophie. Food has started to bring out a more 'assertive Sophie' than I've seen before. She has this way of grunting/growling/screaming if the food isn't appetizing enough or dispensed fast enough. It's a different kind of sound than her crying/whining. It demands full attention. She uses her enormous eyes, opening them even wider to convey PANIC, URGENCY. Great. Displeasure.

We need to start working on "Please."



Sitting like a big girl....she's still pretty tipsy.

But she loves to stand and hold on to things.

Maya is really becoming a gracious, protective, loving, gentle (and sometimes bossy) big sister. Watching them love each other, and look at one another with such adoration and delight has to be one of the best gifts I've ever been given.