7 Month Update

 He really enjoyed playing with the leaves as we were taking picture, he poked himself in the face a few times with the pine needles until I took it away from him. And look at these adorable "big boy" jammies! I can't believe how he is quickly changing into looking more like a toddler and less like my little baby.



Size:18 pounds 26.5 inches (measured at home so not very accurate)

Activity:He loves to ramble and put different sounds together. He says "bababa" and "mamama", blows bubbles, and just started this throaty "ggghhkk" sound (much like when you say Baklava). I'm not sure where he came up with this sound, but it is pretty funny to hear.  He loves sitting up by himself, and rolling over. He still hasn't figured out crawling, but I'm not worried because that means I'll be chasing him around the house all day. As much as this kids loves to stand I wouldn't be surprised if he skipped crawling all together. We put him in a walker the other day and immediately he started to move in it.

Foods:  He is refusing to nurse now, I think he was frustrated by the flow compared to a bottle. We are now doing all formula, about 5 6-8oz bottles during the day. He also has cereal and a fruit for breakfast, about an hour after his morning bottle. And he also has cereal and a veggie for dinner. He now eats Gerber Puffs, which he loves but he can't figure out how to get them into his mouth so the dogs get to eat most of them.  He now gets very frustrated when we are eating and not feeding him, so for the times when he as eaten his dinner before us I give him a teething biscuit that I make (recipe here) and he loves it. Rather than crumbling, the bread just gets mushy and dissolves. He has yet to finish one, he mostly knaws on both ends till its slippery then it falls on the floor and the dogs claim it.

Sleep: He is still a pretty good sleeper. Day light savings had us all thrown for over a week. He was wanting to wake up at 6am instead of his usual 8am. We are now finally back on a schedule of 7:30pm-7am, with the occasional wake up at 5:30, but we put a pacifier in his mouth and hes back to sleep. He is taking 2-3 naps a day averaging about an hour and a half. The 3rd nap is usually a cat nap around 4 or 5 just to hold him out until bed time.

Favorite toys: That jumparoo is still #1, in fact we have purchased a secondary one for Grandma's house because it's too big to lug around from house to house. He also loves to chew on stuffed animals (well anything he can bring to his mouth instantly becomes a chew toy). We have started bath time without the infant seat and he loves to splash and play with his bath toys.

He dumped out all of his toys from the box and was so proud of himself

 Bath time fun video, my favorite part is at 0:30

He is such a little Ham, and loves showing off to people. So far we don't have any issues with others holding him, he will pretty much go to anybody and give them a huge grin. And who could resist that face??? I am just so lucky that I get to wake up to it every morning, even if it is at 5:30am.