Well. That was the fastest month ever.
My little muffin man is 7 months old! He’s more fun
than ever too. He is such a happy little boy! Always smiling,
laughing, babbling and loving life. We are so lucky!
He is so good at sitting now. I took him to
Sheena’s wedding shower at the beginning of the month and there was another little baby there so I sat
him next to her. I had my hands behind him, but he never needed them.
He just sat and played for a good 15 minutes all
on his own! Since then, he’s been a sitting pro! He’s even able to
turn from side to side and reach forward to grab toys. Right now, he’s
working on trying to crawl. He rolls all over the place, but has
recently been spending a little more time on his tummy
pushing up on those arms and then getting his knees under him. Just not
at the same time. He also does what we call “swimming” where he’ll
raise up on his belly and flail his arms and legs around. So funny! I
have a feeling crawling may be happening soon,
but we aren’t rushing it. We’ve already dropped the crib down though, just in case!
He’s eating all sorts of fruits and veggies. So far
we’ve had sweet potatoes, green beans, pears, apples, squash, banana,
and peaches. He pretty much loves everything. He’s still on puree’s but I
tried to give him a little piece of mushed
real banana and he HATED it. So funny. He loves the packaged stuff
though. I think he didn’t like the texture. We’ll keep at it though.
Next he’s going to try real avocado.
He’s really growing too. We took him back in to the
doctor on Friday to make sure his ears were ok since he was being a
real crank-monster (turned out to be his top teeth getting ready to come
in. Fun!) and he weighed 19lbs 10oz! No wonder
none of his pajamas fit anymore! Time to go shopping! Most of his
clothes are 12 month now. Crazy!!
He is really into his shape-sorter blocks. His
favorite thing to do is take the lid off (on his own!), dig his hands
around inside, then dump everything out and I put it all back in. Repeat
a million times. He’s getting really good with
his hands too. He watches me bang two blocks together and then he grabs
them and repeats what I did! He can sort-of wave bye-bye. Mostly he
just tentatively raises his hands and kind of opens and closes his
fingers. It is adorable. Zach taught him over the
weekend to “give a five” and he’s just started clapping his hands on
his own, but only when he wants to. He does love to play patty-cake with
me though. Every time I clap my hands he puts his on the outside and
just smiles so big! I love playing with him so
much!
Other fun things:
-He loves going on walks. He’ll sit there and
bounce one of his legs the whole time and loves to look around and see
everything that’s going on.
-Is obsessed with his crinkly book.
-Loves tags. However they must be original
manufacturer tags. He has no interest in the “taggie” toys or any of
those “fake” tags!
-Likes “reading” his board books. He can open and
close them and seems to really be interested in all the pictures. It’s
kind of the only way I can get him to sit nicely on my nap for any
length of time. Otherwise he’s a mover and a shaker!
-Sleeps through the night (7:30pm-6am). He will
sometimes whine a bit during the first couple hours, but we hardly ever
have to go in to sooth him anymore. Sometimes we do, but that’s
generally only when he doesn’t feel well. Yay sleep!
-Still taking 2-3 naps a day. Length varies greatly.
-LOVES daycare and all his daycare “girlfriends”. Apparently he’s hot stuff in those parts. We are in trouble!
-We’ve ordered his big boy car seat and I think we’ll start using it this month.
-Reaches up when he wants out of his exersaucer or car seat.
-Says “ma-ma” and “ba-ba” but I really don’t count
them as words because he has no idea what it means. It’s still fun
hearing “mama mama mama” all the time though!!
Here he is playing with his crinkle book. He takes his playing seriously folks!
This month is all about Vince and Sheena’s wedding
so it’s going to be busy! I actually went to the lake this weekend for the bachelorette party so Zach stayed home with David. It was the first time I've left him and although I missed the little bugger, Zach really enjoyed having "guy time" which was really awesome to hear.
You never know what I’ll have to share next
month! We might be crawling, pulling up, cruising, saying words! Who
knows! It’s all just so exciting right now!
