Leyna 7 months old

On Dec. 22, 2008 Leyna turned 7 months old. In the last month Leyna has been learning a lot. She has discovered that she can climb up things. This was pretty funny, but also scary, seeing her try to climb on everything. She still isn't crawling though. She gets up on all fours and rocks then just plops right back down and does the army crawl. She has tried crawling a couple times on her own but won't keep doing it. I thought babies usually crawl before they start climbing on things. She seems to have that backwards. =) She is also learning some sign language. She knows how to say more and we are working on learning how to do please and nurse/milk. We will start others as time goes on. She has started getting very opinionated and vocal. She use to be so mellow and calm, but has shown us a different side now. This is not a bad thing though. It shows that she is learning and getting a mind of her own. She loved trying to "figure things out". She is always getting into something and making messes too. She is just learning so much each day and we are enjoying watching all the new thing she is learning and doing.

As soon as we got home from Utah we put up our Christmas tree. Leyna loved it! Especially the beads. I couldn't keep them on the tree for more than a few minutes. It was fun watching her play with them though.
Here she is with her new favorite toy that Mamma let her have when we left Utah. Thanks mom, she loves it!

With Grandma eating a teething biscuit for the first time. She really liked it!

Trying to figure out how to get up...

Climbing on her BumboShe looked like she was trying get in it.

I thought she was gonna end up doing a head stand in it...
Trying to figure out how this box works. I think she eventually ended up biting a piece off. She loves paper or boxes. I have a difficult keeping them away from her. She will find them anywhere.

Here she is doing "more" in sign language. I was feeding her cereal puffs because that was the only way I could keep her happy while I was taking these pictures.

Not very happy

We got to go visit Daddy at work and see what an oil rig looks like up close.

She loves driving the car! This was probably one of the only times we got some kind of a reaction from the food we fed her. Can you guess what it is? PEAS. She wasn't very interest at the time, but has ate them since. She is a very good eater, not picky at all...I better knock on wood. =)

Leyna in her pretty Christmas Dress. Isn't she just too cute?!?

Happy 7 months baby girl!