7 Months

So, Elsie is 7 months today. . . I thought it was worth updating the blog. For starters, she's crazy! She started officially crawling (as opposed to the army crawl) about a week ago. She likes to explore everywhere including the bathroom, the office, mom and dad's room, behind the chairs, under the table, and anywhere else she can get on her own. She loves to attack unsuspecting targets, like blankets. She always wins those fights. She learned to play by those rules from her daddy.

Sometimes, she just wears herself out. This is one of my favorite pictures of her after she fell asleep in her bouncer!

Once she has worn herself out, her favorite position to sleep in is with her head in the corner of the crib and up on her knees. It looks super uncomfortable, but whatever works I guess!

She loves to eat everything! She now has 5 teeth!!! She got three on the top within a week, it was crazy. She loves to grind them together, which I'm pretty sure isn't good, but she doesn't understand that yet when I tell her. This was her most recent experience with new food. She ate at least half that watermelon on her own.

She also loves shopping. It comes so natural to her. . .

This is just really cool, on Monday we went outside to enjoy the weather and a dove flew down and landed right next to us. It walked right over, under Mike's legs and right up to Elsie. Shortly after this reaching scene it attempted to bite Elsie, but she was too fast. Anyways, cool right? It even ate rice out of our hands, we were friends for like half an hour.
She loves to play with her alligator.
Okay, this is probably one of my favorites ever. She just discovered the glass door. First, she was interested to see me through it:
Then, like everything else, she had to taste it:
Then, I got the most awesome picture ever! Mike doesn't like it because it doesn't make her look cute, but it was so funny I couldn't resist! haha, I love her!
We hope you were entertained watching our crazy cute daughter grow up a little. We love her to death!