Julia at 7 Months

Julia turned 7 months old on Monday.  What is she up to?  She's sitting up very well, eats three meals a day, still loves her jumper and exersaucer, still only has two teeth, likes to do the Superman, still smiles easily, makes lots of noises with an occasional ba or tha, occasionally gets up on all fours and rocks, and she can't wear 3-6 month clothes anymore. Her sleeping, well, it's gone from bad to a bit better.  After her 6 month check up, we decided to do some tough love, so on nights when she would wake up before 5:00, JD would go in and rock her quickly and sing a song and put her back in bed.  The first two nights were pretty rough, but then we had a solid streak of several nights where she would sleep from 7:30-5:00 or 6:00.  I would feed her then and she would sleep until 7:30.  Unfortunately, she started slipping back to crying around 2:15, so two nights ago, we had a pretty rough night.  Last night, JD went in there once to briefly rock her, and she seemed to settle easily enough, but we heard her again at 3:15.  That time, JD just went in rolled her over, patted her, and sang a song.  She did settle after that, and I didn't hear her again until 7:00.  I wish I knew why she continues to wake up and why she has trouble settling/not putting herself back to sleep.  I know she CAN do it because there have been a few times when she's been awake at 4:30 but gone back to sleep on her own. 

Here are a few pictures taken on Monday: