It's getting harder and harder to get a good picture of Lara on her leaf for her monthly picture... She is constantly wanting to roll, crawl, or be anywhere other than the leaf!

Here is the best one that we got! My "little" girl is getting so big!

Here is Lara at 4, 5 & 6 months! Definitely not as drastic of a change compared to 1,2 & 3 months, but she's still growing fast! What a great little girl she is!

I can't believe that my sweet girl is already 7 months old! (I know I say this every month, but seriously, time goes by way too quickly!)

Here are some things that Lara is doing at 7 months:

* She is can go from sitting to crawling (has been able to for a while) and now from crawling to sitting to standing! She enjoys going wherever she wants now, but gets frustrated when she can't quite get to something!

* She is pretty much done with the army crawl now, and crawls (very quickly) on her hands and knees or hands and feet, depending on what kind of surface she's on.

* Lara is pulling up on EVERYTHING! The babyproofing has officially begun. (Why is it that in a room full of toys she seems to like electrical cords, the laptop and anything breakable more?!)

* We moved her matress down because she was pulling up so much and attempting to use the bumper in her bed as a step to get over...

* She has started letting go of whatever she is holding on to and standing solo for short amounts of time (10-15 seconds)

* We bought her some more age appropriate toys for her 7 month birthday! Things that have lots of buttons and light up and play music! She LOVES them! Maybe she'll stay away from the remote now....

* We are trying to do solid food one time a day now (usually at our dinner time), but don't stress if we don't get to it! She has now tried avocado, banana, rice cereal, and sweet potato. She is not thrilled with any of them except for avocados... Hey, it's supposed to be brain food right? And at least it's green! :-)

* She has started playing peek-a-boo herself now! She'll raise something over her head and wait for us to say, "Where's Lara?" Then she'll pull it down and have the biggest grin on her face! Precious!

* She still says Da-da and Ba-ba ALL the time :-) Love it!

* She moved up to the next class at school (Normally they don't move until they are 1, but they felt like she was ready... I'm a little nervous about it, but I think she'll really enjoy having more toys to climb on, getting to go outside, and getting to participate in water days!)

* Lara is still sleeping great at night, although she has discovered that standing in the bed is much more fun that going to sleep... so this is proving to make bedtime (and naptimes) a little more difficult!

* We made our first LONG road trip to Texas and had a great time! She sure is a great traveler! Thank goodness!

* Still no teeth! But, she is definitely working on it!

* We don't go to the doc until 9 months again, so we won't have any more height/weight checks until then! She is definitely still growing though!

Wow! I can't believe how much she has learned this month! Crazy how quickly she learns now! I just love watching her discover new things! :-)

I'll post her 7 month pictures soon, plus pics from July 4th and our Texas adventure! So stay tuned!

Well, it's that time! It only happens once every 4 years, and being married to a Brazilian (and having a Brazilian daughter) means that we must get excited about the WORLD CUP!

This was the first day that Brazil played! Lara was decked out in her Brazil dress and hat (she is the cutest little brazilian ever if you ask me!) and I even have on my green to support the team!

Too bad that Brazil didn't win this time... We did enjoy getting to go meet some other Brazilians in town to watch one of the games. Lucas already has plans to be in Brazil for the next world cup (2014). We'll have to see about that!

I actually got a picture of Lara's first attempt at pulling up! I can't believe how strong she is! She is growing so fast! Once she figures out how to go from crawling to sitting, we are in big trouble! Ha!

Almost there....

We had Lara's friend Lydia and her parents Stacey and John over for some early morning swimming and fajitas! Oh how I love summer time!

It was Lydia's first time swimming and her and Lara had a good time in their matching floats, splashing each other and us! :-)

Lara is either waving at Daddy or splashing... hard to tell, but having fun either way!

She is getting so BIG!

Lara at 6 months:

* 18 lbs, 2 oz and 26 3/4 inches (85% in everything)

Besides starting solid foods, we thought that since summer is upon us now that it would be nice for Lara to be able to drink some water or juice out of a sippy cup so she doesn't get dehydrated with it being so hot... I talked to a few friends to get their opinions and most seemed to like the straw type cup the best, because it didn't leak!

Well we decided to give it a try with watered down apple juice!

Here is her first look at the cup!

When Lara turned 6 months old, we decided to give solid foods a try! She hasn't seemed very interested in it, but we thought it would be fun to see what she would do!

Here she is ready to eat with her bib on!

Chewing on the spoon before we got started.

Well, our first adventure with solid foods went pretty well! She didn't eat much but seemed to like it pretty well! It will probably be a while before we start introducing solids on a regular basis, but it's still fun to try new things every once in a while!