Milestones: 7 Month Old

Alexa will turn 8 month old in less than a week and here I am, documenting her milestones at 7 month old. FAIL.COM

At 7 month old, Alexa:
- understands object permance (she will look around for me when I play hide and seek/peek-a-boo with her or she will bend to the side to look for the voice/noise)
- registers interest in her own reflection
- looks for objects after dropping them
- passes objects from one hand to another
- babbles enthusiastically
- bounces to music  
- understands certain words/gestures/acts (see video below)

Alexa is terribly afraid of men (not all but most). She cries so hard you would think someone has pinched her real hard. And her cries are heartwrenching (at least to me).

To wake us up in the morning on the weekends (Alexa is an early riser) she will claw at our face -_- I say claw coz when she tries to caress/touch our face to wake us up, we get scratched by her nails and that is one surefire way to wake us up! And it is exceptionally nice to wake up to your baby smiling up to you (albeit with the stinging pain).

Alexa loves attention and does not like to be left alone. When we let her play by herself in the play yard, she will look at you longingly, inviting you to play with her. And who can resist the puppy eyes look of your firstborn?!!??! Not me!

She loves loves loves watching tv, especially colorful animation. My ma likes to turn on the tv to let her watch babytv in the morning and my husband loves to put on nursery songs on youtube for her to listen to. These are some of her favourite nursery songs/videos:





But I have observed that she is getting easily restless and distracted and therefore, I am minimizing her tv/youtube time. When it comes to her mealtime, she will turn her head to the tv wanting to watch her babytv or when we take away the ipad, she seems visibly upset.

Some things you have to teach them young :)