The Oistad Family: Callison is 7 months old

Our sweet “Callie girl” is seven months old and oh so sweet. She is our Miss Petite! At her six month well-baby checkup, she weighed in at 12 lbs 12.4 oz (4-5%). She was 26 inches long (50%) and 42.5cm for head (50%). Dr. P said that her motor skills are definitely on track and tried to assure me (her neurotic mommy) that her weight is okay even if she is on the small side. She can sit up on her own, roll both directions, push up on her arms, spin around, jump in her jumperoo, pass objects back in forth between her hands and do mini sit ups. She is very active! When she is on her back, she lifts her neck and head up so she can see what is going on. She does more crunches than anyone else in the family. Her favorite activity is to watch big brother ALL THE TIME. She loves him so much. You can actually see the look of adoration in her face when she watches him.

Biggest news this month is that Callie sprouted her 1^st tooth! It is the bottom left front tooth! She loves to put things in her mouth. Favorite thing this month for her to suck on are her shoes. She grabs them off her feet and in her mouth they go! Thank goodness she isn’t walking yet, so the shoes are not dirty, but still.

She still doesn’t like to eat if there is a lot (or anything) going on. She doesn’t want to miss out on anything. This is nearly impossible with a 3 ½ year old brother running around the house especially if just one of us watching both kids, but we try to accommodate Callie when we can and when we can’t we just hope she will learn to eat in noisier environments. Last month we started her on rice cereal (she was not a big fan of this), but she loves her 1^st foods of peas, sweet potatoes, carrots, green beans, peaches and apples. The only food she didn't love was bananas.

Last weekend we had fun celebrating Callie’s 1^st Easter!! My mom got her a pretty pink dress and white patent mary janes (that she kept in her mouth nearly the entire church service). The dress was a little big on her since we got it a while ago thinking she would need a 6-9 month size, but she still looked so darling in it! Love playing dress up with my pretty girl!

One of the things I love most about Callison is her easy-going and happy personality. We recently took family pictures and I have to give her the best baby award for that day. We had scheduled pictures at 11am in South Anchorage. On the 40 minute drive into town, she was kinda tired but big brother was playing with her in the back seat and she didn’t fall asleep…. until 5 minutes before we met with the photographer!! I tried to let her sleep as much as I could by having the photographer take pics of Wes and Noah first but after 10 minutes I had to wake her up. I felt so bad about waking her, but she was fine with it and rewarded us with lots of cute smiles for the pictures. Then when we got back in the car to head to the photographer’s studio for more photos, I thought for sure she would fall asleep or be cranky from missing her morning nap. But she hammed it up for more adorable pictures for another hour! I could not believe it. She is such a trooper!

Can't believe she is already seven months old!! Time flies when you are having fun!