Snowbound Herpetologist

Baby boo is sooooo old!!  I don't have time to write much, but everything is going well here.  Annika is pointing, waving, and making lots of sounds (although we don't have words quite yet).  She's very, very close to crawling (she can move around a lot, but I would not call her truly crawling yet), so we've put the downstairs baby gate back up.  She's eating solids like a champ, and reliably takes like twice as much milk at daycare as Maya took at this age (yay!).  This doesn't mean that she sleeps any better or nurses less at night, but hey, can't win 'em all :) Mostly I'm just going to post some photos here - my parents are coming in a few weeks for Thanksgiving while husband does another field season in Peru, so hopefully I have time to post more then (likes and dislikes, general observations, etc.).  It's a bummer that I don't have as much time for blogging with Annika as I did with Maya, but ponder this for a sec - Maya was JUST NOW s

Well, yes, I do realize that it's already the second week of October, and I haven't written Annika's 7 month update.  Things are just so busy!  I know that sounds cliche, but seriously - as a pre-tenure professor who is also the mom of two kids with one a baby, I literally start running the second I wake up and don't stop until the second I go to bed (and then I nurse all night long).  I've never worked so hard in my life.  However, I've also never been so balanced in my life, so there's that.... At seven months, Annika and I have so much fun together.  We go most of every day with zero tears, except when I have to wipe her face.  She's completely mastered sitting, and our next adventure is crawling.  She can move quite far with scooting, and she's in the lean-and-rock phase, so crawling is definitely on the horizon somewhere.  She has her two bottom central incisors, which are super cute when she smiles.  She's wearing robeez-type shoes, her h