A Letter to Sarah at 7 months 10 days

To my dear little Sarah,

Recently,

1. You’ve got a tooth!!!  Or should I say you got a little grain of rice sitting out of your lower gums?! The little white thingy peaked out last Sunday (Jan 9th)… well, at least that’s when I noticed it.  You didn’t cry, whine, or fuss before or after. And thank goodness you didn’t have a fever either.  I sure hope that the rest of your teeth will come out this way.
2. You are a solid sitter now.  But sometimes you would still fall back or on your side – you look so cute when you fall because it’s like seeing Humpty Dumpty falling off the wall!
3. You got your first haircut on Dec 28th. You look like a boy now due to your Daddy’s horrible hair-cutting skills.  He now regrets cutting your hair so short because he often asks why your hair is growing so slow?
4. You actually can suck water from a cup through a straw.  I find it amazing that you can do that, but you would do everything for water. You absolutely love it, though we have been limiting your water intake because we don’t want you to get filled up and not drink your milk.
5. You drink 7 oz of milk, 4 times a day and eat 3 tablespoon of rice cereal or oatmeal (+2-3oz of formula to mix), and a 2.5 oz jar of Stage 1 fruit or vegetable.  You seem to love eating. I want to add 1 more jar of fruit/veggie into your meal plan, but it’s been hard to work out the schedule.  We’ll continue to work at it.
6. You love to play – especially now that you got some toys for Christmas. Your favorite so far is the toy piano, which is actually a hand-me-down toy from your cousins.  But you love it regardless.  It plays music and lights up.
7.  Of all the toys and things to do, you are guaranteed to get super-excited when you sit on your Daddy’s shoulders.  You have the instincts to hold on, which is to pull on his hair.  You squeal loudly with excitement and smile with your famous watermelon mouth!
8. You have too many nicknames. I think one day you will probably get confused. In addition to your English name, Sarah, we call you by your Chinese name, Kay-Kay.  Then we also call you “mao-jai” (little kitten) because you purr like a kitten and you love to lick everything.  Daddy also calls you Silly Girl, and then Mommy calls you Little Girl. I hope you continue to respond to every name or nickname we call you.
9.  You still don’t like to do tummy time and would rather stand.  We think that you might bypass crawling and go straight to walking one day.  Either way, mommy is not in a rush to get you mobile just yet! 
   
10.  You continue to brighten our day, everyday. We are so blessed and lucky to have a daughter like you.

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Sarah is standing, with a little help from Daddy, of course