Baby Anna's Seventh Month

Our sweet little baby is becoming a little girl. Paul and I really noticed the change during this month. A few days after the last post, Anna mastered the art of crawling and nothing can stop her now. She is a very independent girl who is now trying to pull-up on furniture, walls, Mommy and Daddy.

This month we also started to eat real food. We started with a week of baby rice cereal, which quickly became obvious that this was not one of Anna's favorite foods. The following week we had carrots, then, sweet potato, broccoli, corn mash, peas, pumpkin, apple, zucchini with potato and broccoli, pears, papaya, pears with blueberries, and chicken with sweet potato and apples. Anna's favorites are sweet potato, broccoli, pumpkin, papaya, pears with blueberries, and chicken with sweet potato and apples. She really surprised us when she devoured her chicken dinner. So far so good...now we are trying to teach her how to drink out of her sippy cup which is proving to be more difficult than teaching her to eat her mashes.

Below are some photos highlighting the month . . .

Anna enjoys her first bowl of rice cereal . . .

Bored with just rice cereal, we move on to carrots. Anna polished her carrots off in a matter of seconds and we gave her some rice cereal to fill up her tummy . . .

"Look Mom, I can feed myself with my own spoon!"
Daddy and Anna read The Times of India one sunny morning over a cup of coffee . . .
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to all our friends and family at home. Anna poses in her usual exuberant manner for our 2010 family photo. Many thanks to Shine and Janina for taking these great photos of us!
Girl meets Dog . . .
Aunt Betsy's Dr. Seuss brainwashing clothes are so cute! We all love Horton!

Look at me, no hands! Yes, she did this on her own to get her Old MacDonald Had a Farm book from the bookshelf. Paul and I did have a bit of a scare when she did this, but she seems pretty confident with her newly honed skills.

Where's Anna . . . Here I am!

Pauline and I are scheming to make Anna a traditional Maharastrian dress. Anna is modeling the sample. We have finalized the colors and we'll show you all the finished product when it is done. Enjoy the sneak peek below. . .

Soooo big! Here Anna is pulling up all by herself. Now why would we buy Anna teething toys, when you can use your crib rail for the same purpose? Anna loves to chew on wood right now.

So, after a month of crawling, pulling up, singing, reading books, playing with animals, experimenting with new tastes and textures, Anna is finally teething. She should have her two front teeth for Christmas and two to three more are on their way when we feel her teething on our hands.

Happy Holidays to all our friends and family at home!