Almost 7 Months

Every day Hana is learning new things! She's growing up right before our eyes. She is nearly clapping. I clap a lot and say "Yay!" when she does something and now she has picked up on that. She can't quite make her hands connect, and hasn't figured out how to open them, so it's really just her arms flying open and closed, but it's cute. Tonight she was so close to rolling over from back to tummy. And she is just starting to lift her arms as a sign she wants to be picked up.

The best part - the going to sleep at night. She has come pretty close to being an expert at this, at least for the last 5 or 6 nights in a row. I can put her down still awake and she goes to sleep on her own. Sometimes there is a bit of crying, but it's kind of what we have come to know as her "fake cry." Tonight she is going to sleep alone in the room and we'll sleep in our other bedroom. I'm sure I will hardly sleep, listening for her just in case.

Below is a video of Hana on the swing. It's her new favorite fun thing to do. Her latest favorite food is pickles. We discovered this at Saul's while out to breakfast this morning. It was suggested by our friends we were with to give her a spear, and it was a big hit. She would suck out all the pickle pulp from one end, then Pete would flip it over and she'd go to town on the other end. Go figure.