It's the Fat One's 7-month Birthday!

And she is no longer a toothless wonder! 

Yep, her first tooth came in today and she is so proud of it. Well, I'm sure she would be if she knew what was happening. And on this special day she managed to stay in a crawling position for longer than one second and actually rock in it.

Another bit of progress is that she got the whole swallowing food thing down and she can now munch on cheesesticks, crackers, toast, etc., without choking on each "bite".

She's growing so quickly. Time is just flying by with her. When I had Alina, each stage of development was a wonder and her first year seemed like an eternity. I can't believe that she's already 7 months old ... and I'm almost 25! Not like that has anything to do with anything, heh.

A couple of days ago, Alina remarked how nice it would be to have another sister. She loves Laura to pieces and I guess she thinks that having another sister would be like having two Lauras, without realizing that the first one would no longer be this fat little thing that she can squeeze. She also said it would be nice to have a brother after the second sister to "just to see what one would look like". 

Uh, yes Alina, how about if we wait on those, aherm.

Anyway, I don't have any pics of the monkey because the tooth isn't really visible, but I'll be sure to post some as soon as her tooth gets a little bigger.