7 months.

Beetle is:

sitting up on her own

CRAWLING EVERYWHERE!

pulling herself up on mommy, daddy and anything else that will support her

cruising

reading lots of touchy-feely books ;)

waving (see this post)

sleeping much better (though she is still waking up a few times)

talking in this oh-so-cute, but kind of disturbing 80yr. old smoker's voice

working on another tooth (not sure which one, but she's back to drooling and chewing on everything!)

antagonizing Tank (she wants to play with him so badly!)

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Lu continues to be such a happy happy baby.  Even if she's had one, half hour nap all day she has yet to have a melt down (knock on something now, please).  

Also, it must be because of her daddy's antics from such an early age, but she is FEARLESS and STRONG.  Just today, she pulled herself up in her crib (on the side) and was watching me sort laundry.  She decided she wanted to move to the bottom of the crib to get a better look.  I watched her make the decision to just LET GO, fall and catch herself on the bottom side.  She's bumped her head more times than I'd like to admit, but she seems to be getting the hang of it - falling, that is ;0)

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PS - you can't really see them in the first photo, but check out the shorts that I scored for Lu on our recent surprise trip (more on that to come)! Not too pink, but still girly :)