Kira is 7 months old!

Kira is seven months old today and her personality is growing brighter each day.  She is such a happy baby and loves to smile, giggle, blow raspberries, and babble all the time.  Kira is still a great eater, but she is definitely starting to develop food preferences and is less interested in her bottle.   Lately she has started to wake up super early (sometimes before Max!), around 6:00am, but she coos happily in her crib.  As long as Max is still asleep, she lets mommy and daddy stay in bed. She usually sleeps on her back, but she seems to really want to sleep on her side.  She is very skilled at spinning around her crib on her back.  She only rolls from her back to her belly, and once she is on her belly, she is focused on trying to crawl.

Now that Kira can sit up, she enjoys playing with the shape buttons on the activity table, which is the first toy we bought Max when he could sit up.  Max is actually enjoying it again now, too.  Yesterday, he noticed that when you press some of the color buttons the voice says the wrong color.  Apparently, the toy could not keep up with the fast "keystrokes" of a 3.5 year old; it only malfunctions when you press the keys super, super fast.  It was a good reminder that you cannot get anything past Max.  For example, if you were driving down Reston Parkway last night and had a two inch piece of blue painters take on your rear windshield wiper, Max saw your tape job, and he wants you to know that he has blue tape, too.

Just another photo shoot with a side show of Max flinging pom poms off a plastic spoon

Max has been a terrific big brother for seven months.

Kira hugged the giraffe all by herself, which was especially sweet since Max picked it out for her before she was born, but after he picked 10 toys for himself.