Month 7

Age: 7 Months

He looks so grown up!  Where did my baby go?

Weight: No official weight, but you're definitely continuing to gain weight.

Height:  Taller every day.  Though you haven't outgrown your 6-9 month clothes, yet.

Favorite activity:   Swinging with Grandad.  We bought you a swing before our trip North, but we didn't get it put up before we left.  Grandmother and Grandad have a porch swing on their deck and you spent a lot of time out there swinging with Grandad with the biggest grin on your face.  Installing your swing moved up to priority #1 when we returned.

Honorable mentions:  Crawling, exploring, generally causing trouble...

Least favorite activity:  Boy, diaper changes are a fight.  You're constantly turning over and trying to get away.  I'm going as fast as I can!

Milestones:   There have been so many!  It seems that you're learning something new every other day.  You're close to figuring out how to pull up.  You're becoming more and more independent and you enjoy exploring EVERYTHING.  This month brought us your first long road trip (10+ hours), your dedication at church, and lots of first visits with family.

Words: Still no words, though Grandpa taught you raspberries.  I'm still contemplating a proper "thank you" for that.  :o)  Daddy and I are trying to incorporate more sign language into our day so that, when you are old enough, you will be able to pick it up easily.

Sleep:  Sigh.  Sleep has become our nemesis.  One day, you sleep like clockwork.  Two hours up, two hour nap.  The next day, forty-five minute power naps.  I have no idea how to get things more consistent.  A two week vacation did NOTHING to help our cause.

Mama!  I can taste freedom.  It tastes...furry.

Best Moment:  Watching you interact with your grandparents was pretty darn cool.  You're a lucky little man to have so many people love you so much.

Worst Moment:  The three hours of whining/whimpering as we drove stunk pretty royally.  Luckily, the next day, you slept almost the whole trip the following day.

Oooo...hello puppy!

Eating:  You are eating everything!  You love apricots and sweet potato puffs.  I think you may have some kind of reaction to bananas, but I'm not 100% sure yet.  You used your mesh feeder to eat watermelon and you LOVED it.  We're getting ready to start you on solids three times a day.  First, I need to research what a typical day of food for a 7 month old looks like.  You're not ready to just eat what we eat, but I don't want to feed you the same thing day in and day out.  Month 7 will be a month of food experiments!

What's the big deal, Mama?

Teeth: Still just 2.  Though, I am hoping the top two will pop through any day.  You drool like a St. Bernard, baby.  

If you look close, you can see your two teeth!

Wombat and Mama's Summer of Fun!

Hooray, it's finally summer!  We have officially launched Mama and Wombat's Summer of Fun.  Hold on to your diaper, baby!  Mama is going to pack in a school year's amount of fun into one summer.

Month 6

Age: 6 Months

Weight:   18 pounds, 2 ounces

Height: 27.75 inches

Favorite activity:   Right now, you're favorite activity is turning over and crawling.  You are able to move and dag nabbit, you want to be mobile All. The. Time.  Generally this isn't a problem.  At bedtime, however, oh my.  You eventually fall asleep, but sometimes it takes time.

Honorable mentions:  You love your new jumper.  It is lots of fun.  You love chasing and "petting" the kitties.  You love giggling with Daddy.  You love being oogled by ladies in public and you love riding in your car seat - most of the time.

This is TOTALLY WICKED!  (Ignore my tired eyes, 'mkay?)

Least favorite activity:  Still burping and the time where we have to fasten you into your car seat.  You could do without that.  You seem to love the new car seat though.  Much less screaming.

Milestones:   You can crawl!  You're eating solids!  You can almost sit unassisted!  YOU HAVE A TWO TEETH!  This has been a big month for you.

Words:  None, but you still chatter.  You're quite the chatty Cathy.

Sleep:  You sleep very well (knock on wood).  Since you learned to turn over, you sleep on your tummy with your tush up in the air.  It's adorable.  

You go to bed between 6:30 and 7:30 and sleep until around 5:30 or 6.  Some days you get up later, some days earlier but you are always an early riser.  Mama is not...but I'm getting better.  I'll be a morning person yet.

Best Moment:  Crawling!  It was so exciting to watch you wiggle your tush and take off.

Worst Moment:   Crawling!  It's the beginning of the end.  You're growing so fast.  I wish you would slow down.

Eating:  You love sweet potatoes.  You hate peas. (Your dad and grandpas are so proud.)  You weren't fond of avocados, but you tolerated them better than peas.  You also like squash.  Next on the to try list include green beans, carrots, peaches, pears  (Grandma's favorite), and applesauce.

Teeth: You have a tooth!  TEETH!  You have two teeth!  They're your front bottom teeth.  We think they have at least one friend because you're still all drooly and congested and cranky.  We shall see.

First Foods: Apples

Perhaps they were a bit more tart than I remember... It would appear my fears of him not eating vegetables after tasting fruits may have been misguided.

Yum! Apples!

Ack!  Sour apples! Sour apples!

Poor kid happily went back to his squash.

Check out  the Wombat's impression of other foods when tasting them for the first time:

• Sweet Potatoes
• Avocado
• Peas

Training

We finally got you a decent jumper which you LOVE.  You never played as long in the old jumper as you do in this one.  You don't actually jump in it yet, but you can turn yourself all around in it and stand pretty steadily in it.

Look, Mama!  This music keeps playing, but I have no idea why.  And...and...look at this spinning ball...

Soccer season ended this week and I think Daddy already misses it.  He spent most of yesterday teaching you things like this:

First Foods: Grandpa is so proud...

We call this "And you thought avocado was a no..."

First Foods: Avocad-no

We are not a fan of avocados.  Mama even tried to sneak them into your sweet potatoes.  You were not having it.

We put avocados on the "to try again later" list.  Next, we try peas.  Much to Grandpa's dismay.