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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I feel like this past month \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the 6-7 month period \u00e2\u20ac\u201c has brought the most change in Zoe. She seems to do different things every day now, and it feels like she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a much older girl than she was just 30 days ago. <\/p>\n
Although she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not crawling, Zoe is a real mover and shaker. (Actually, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more accurate to call her a roller and flipper.) Place her on her back on the floor and within a few minutes she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be on her stomach on the opposite end of the room. She moves by rolling and sort of scooting on her side; I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure what you call this mode of transportation, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pretty effective. (One of her most impressive accomplishments to date: rolling several feet to her box of toys, propping herself up with her arms, and plucking a toy off the pile.) Also effective: her way of obtaining far-away toys. She recently learned that if she rolls on her side and stretches, she can extend her arm far enough to reach a desire object. She does that a lot. <\/p>\n
Zoe now knows how to prop herself up on her arms (a precursor to crawling, I think), and she most often does it when lying in her crib. A common sight around 6:30 each morning: Zoe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s head bobbing up and down as she plays with a musical toy attached to her crib. (She just recently learned to push the buttons, which prompt the music, on her own.)<\/p>\n
Zoe is now able to sit up on her own (see below); fall-overs are pretty rare. Other developments: When placed on your lap, she will jump up and down (sometimes very intensely and often making herself look like a frog). She often lifts up her head when lying on her back \u00e2\u20ac\u201c kind of like the beginning of a crunch exercise \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in an effort to see what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going on around her. And her grasp on things is incredibly strong. She actually started to slide a full, tall (heavy) glass of ice water across the table recently; luckily we stopped her before she drenched herself (or us).<\/p>\n
Zoe still has an extremely healthy appetite; at this point, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dined on most of the biggie fruits and vegetables. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fond of almost everything except sweet potatoes and squash \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but she doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to mind when we sneak them in with other foods. Because of her love for food, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s continuing to gain weight at a healthy clip; at her last visit she was just about 17 lbs. <\/p>\n
Like most babies of this age, Zoe coos and babbles and giggles a lot. One recent night she started laughing for no apparent reason (I was just changing her into pajamas), which was fun to see. As Elena, her babysitter, often comments, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Zoe is always so happy!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d And nothing makes me and Q happier that that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the case!<\/p>\n
-M<\/p>\n
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I feel like this past month \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the 6-7 month period \u00e2\u20ac\u201c has brought the most change in Zoe. She seems to do different things every day now, and it feels like she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a much older girl than she was just 30 days ago. Although she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not crawling, Zoe is a real mover and shaker. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seven-to-eight-months"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}