7 months old!

Today it's already Adelaide's 7-month birthday! :)

Honey-cake, made after her grandma's recipe is ready, cute dress-set, that daddy gave for Christmas, is put on (it barely fit..).

It is -21 C outside today, so little birthday girl is sleeping in our entrance-room (where temperature is a little below 0 C), not outside. Actually could go out with any weather, but this is a bit too cold, I guess, especially as she still has a little runny nose, and a little cough too, it seems. We were out for a short while yesterday, though, it was -15 C and a beautiful day. (I don't know, who is reading this, but yes - it's common and normal in Estonia to go out with babies in any weather. With a newborn maybe -10 C is the maximum cold to go out, but a bigger baby is fine in almost any temperature (depends on other conditions too, like wind and humidity, and maybe wouldn't go out in -25 C or -30 C), but mainly just have to be dressed properly. I know it's shocking for people from US and so on.. :D But if we couldn't go out in cold weather, then would have to live indoors for half a year.)

Biggest problem with our 7-month old is, that the daily rhythm has gone way out of hand.. (I'm even ashamed to tell, what time our baby is going to sleep..) It was bad already before the holidays, but all the celebrations made it even worse. It always happens for us (me and Mr. Husband), that during vacation we go to sleep late, but, of course, always go back to the old, a bit more sensible regime, when the normal routine comes back. It's different for the baby, it seems. She has stayed in the same rhythm, going to sleep way too late (we already want to go to sleep ourselves, but she refuses..), and sleeps long. She wakes up exactly the same time, already for weeks (10:30). Also day naps are exactly the same for weeks. She is so strongly into this regime already, that I'm afraid it's going to be very hard (and painful, for us all) to change it..
But I guess it must be changed. I don't know, how exactly yet.

I wonder, has anyone else had this problem, a night-time baby, who wants to go to sleep way too late?

I'm going to start dealing with this problem.. probably next week. (Adelaide's godparents will be visiting today, so can't start now.)

Otheways.. Apart from a weird episode yesterday morning, when she woke up a bit before her usual waking-up time, and was crying for like half an hour, that she never has done before, and nothing seemed to help.. We were confused. I already thought her belly was hurting from the porridge I gave her the day before.. Who knows now, she fell back asleep eventually, and was all fine, when woke up at her usual waking up time. Maybe she just was unhappy, because she had woken up too early?

She is moving around in super-speed, practising her crawling-movements..

She was playing with our cat Romeo yesterday. :) The cat is amazing! Before he hated children, he hadn't met them much, and was really afraid and getting protective. But he has totally become protective of Adelaide, and is very calm and understanding. Such a smart cat! It seems, he thinks he is the best caretaker, and we sometimes are really silly and don't know, what we are doing with the baby. :D Like last night, she didn't want to go to sleep, so started crying, and cat right away came really close, to comfort her. It actually worked perfectly, seeing the cat calms her down immediately! :) He even lets her grab him. To some extent, then he just moves away. But he is really calm and doesn't get nervous or aggressive. We are really lucky.

Nights have been a bit worse now again, maybe it's the full moon.. But she wakes up many times, and somehow is just awake, not willing to go back to sleep so easily.. At least she doesn't cry. And she has started to roll over at night.. Just rolls away, I have to put her back.

I hear that many babies in this age have troubles with sleep. :) I guess it's natural.. The world is getting so much more exciting.

What else? A lot of talking, laughing.. and she gives hugs and kisses. :)