You wouldn't keep your hands off the chalkboard, hence the messy letters! Oops, I just noticed I wrote 18 inches instead of 28 inches! |
Really, has it been 7 months?! It’s hard to believe we’re another month
closer to your first birthday. I’ve
gotten to spend the entire month at home with you and it has been amazing. You have such a sweet disposition and I just can’t
get over what a good baby you are. I
keep joking with your daddy that if we got paid a dollar each time someone told
us what a good baby you are, we could buy a new car!
I have finally stopped worrying that you will stop breathing. I no longer check on you constantly in your
sleep. I don’t freak out while you are
on your activity gym, if I leave the room for 2 seconds, when I turn my back, while
I go to the bathroom. I now have faith
that you are healthy and strong enough to sustain yourself without my constant
watch. You still love to sleep on your stomach and I’ve stopped going in and rolling you onto your back once you’ve
fallen asleep. I will admit I still go
into your room to watch for the fall of your chest as you breathe and sometimes
put my finger down by your nose to check for air if I can’t see that, but you
know that probably will never end…
Last month you had become really vocal and I was really
excited, but you are even more so now.
You love to hear your own voice and especially love to screech. Every once in a while you will babble
“dadadadadadadada” but for some reason only do it for me, so your daddy hasn’t
gotten to hear it yet. I’ve tried to
record you doing it to send to him, but then you switch over to a different
sound.
I thought by now you’d have a tooth, but we are still
waiting on the first one to pop through.
You’ve been drooling and slobbery for months along with chewing on
everything in sight, but no pearly whites to show for it. I keep thinking any day now, but who really
knows!
You are getting even better at sitting up and can sit up for
longer periods of time. You still
eventually topple over, especially if you see something interesting you want to
reach for. You even army crawled a short
distance this month. Go figure, you were
going after your buddy, Harper.
Smiling at Harper |
Speaking of Harper, you love her dearly! She never fails to get a belly laugh out of
you. It’s so cute because she will bring
you one of her toys and drop it for you to play with. I watch closely to make sure it doesn’t end
up in your mouth, ick! Just today you
would grab an arm of her frog toy and she would get another leg and play tug of
war really gently with you. You laughed
the whole time. It sure was
precious! I know you are only going to
love her more as you get older!
Playing tug of war with Harper. |
You are still waking up twice at night. Once around midnight-1am and another time
between 3-5am. Usually the second time
is 3:30 or so. I keep reading I should let
you cry one of those times because you should be able to sleep longer than
that, but you eat quite a bit both times you wake up. Plus I can’t sleep when you’re awake anyway,
so I might as well go in to help you out.
Hopefully soon you’ll start only getting up once and then eventually
sleep through the night, but I don’t mind right now, especially since I don’t
have to get up super early for work!
It’s been so nice being home with you because your naps are
back on schedule. You don’t sleep as well
at daycare so when you go you don’t nap as well. You are back to waking up around 7am, being
awake for an hour and then taking an hour nap.
When you wake up you are usually awake for 2 hours and then take a 2
hour nap. Your next awake time is 2-3
hours and then you take a shorter nap 30-45 minutes and are awake until we
start your bedtime routine at 7pm. You
are asleep by 8-8:15 most nights, but occasionally don’t fall asleep until 9pm
(that normally means you are overtired, either we started your bedtime routine
too late or you skipped your last nap).
Eating is still one of your favorite things! You are even more interested in daddy and my
food. You try to reach for our plates
and will grab food off them if they are too close. We’ve still been doing rice cereal, fruit, or
veggie for lunch and a fruit or vegetable for dinner. The only new foods you’ve tried this month
are prunes and zucchini. So you’ve had
sweet potatoes, squash, carrots, peas, green beans, apples, bananas, avocados,
rice cereal, pears, peaches, prunes, and zucchini. We still haven’t found anything you don’t
like.
You keep getting smarter and smarter! You have figured out you can hook toys with
your feet and lift your legs to bring your toy up to your hands. You also reach for toys and knock them around
to pull them toward you. You like to
scoot yourself around by pushing your feet against the ground and will roll
around the floor to get to things.
Sometimes I worry you won’t crawl because you’ve found so many creative
ways to get what you want without moving too much.
The ball your great grandma and grandpa got you is one of
your favorite toys. You love to reach
for it, get your fingers in the holes, and swing it around. It is one thing you will work pretty hard to
get to. Sophie is another favorite and
you love all of your stuffed animals.
You also love reading and you grab onto the pages and turn them for me
when we read. When we are finished with
a book you like to grab it and feel the cover.
Finally you have a decent amount of hair! Some of it is darker brown and some of it is
so blonde it looks white. We joke that
you have Uncle Paul hair because it is more like fuzz than hair and sticks
straight up especially if it hasn’t been brushed. There’s a picture of your Uncle Paul right
after a bath where his hair is sticking straight up from his head and looks
just like yours!
We went on our longest car ride this month to visit family
in St. Louis. You met lots of family
members and they were all very impressed with you. We also went to the zoo which was quite a bit
of fun. We were so busy!
We are transitioning away from using your car seat adapter
with the stroller. When we go on walks I
put you straight into the stroller. When
we are running I worry you will bobble around too much, so I put you in your
car seat. I also love to watch you and
it’s much harder to do when you are in the stroller. I have to lift a flap to look at you, but
then the sun shines down on your poor little head! I’m going to miss you facing me on all my
runs. I love watching you as we go!
No doctor’s appointment this month so your daddy and I
measured and weighed you. You are up to
18 pounds, 8 ounces, whoa! You are now 28
inches long. I’m not sure how accurate
those measurements are because that would mean you have gained a pound and
three ounces and have only grown 3/10 of an inch. Maybe you have just been chunking out this
month!
You are now wearing size 3 diapers. You are wearing 6 month and 9 month along
with 6-9 month clothes. Our favorite
outfit this month was your striped romper.
The shorts of the romper are long enough to actually look like shorts
and it just fits so well. I love how
collars look on you!
Now you are reaching for things and people you want. There were a few times when someone else was
holding you and you reached for me. You
have also reached for daddy and for grammy.
You are constantly reaching for Harper.
You always want her! It is such a
great feeling when you want me and reach for me. I look forward to you asking for me and
giving me kisses.
Every month I think about how much more fun you are than the
last month. I get sad thinking of you
getting older and changing, but then we reach the next milestone and I realize
how much fun it is. I don’t miss you
being a baby at all because I love how you are now. All laughing and smiling and reaching for
your mommy! I love you to the moon and
back my chubby thighed snuggle bug!
Now on to daddy:
Sooooooo close to moving my little man! Right now you need
some serious motivation (Harper) to move a few inches but you have done it! You
are dominating your jumparoo every chance you get and loving it. You now spin
around to play with the different toys. It’s great that it spins 360 degrees
for that!
This month you have started reaching for people. Once while I
was holding you, your mom walked by and you reached for her. The time you did
it to me, I was changing you on the kitchen table (dumb, I know, we made a huge
nasty mess) and you reached up and grabbed my collar bones. I leaned in a
little farther and sure enough you put my hands around my neck! I loved that so
much!! And then you kicked your diaper over smearing poo on your Grammy’s table
cloth and while I was battling you for that diaper, you rolled over and peed on
the table cloth! Good thing you and I are in good standing with her, she wasn’t
mad at all!
I also want to mention how great you are in new surroundings,
always so calm and easy going. Makes going places just you and I a lot easier! You
are always so entertained with whatever you can get your hands on, always
studying it. Makes me think you are going to be a tinker when you grow up,
always working taking something apart and putting together!
He's looking so grown up. We really enjoyed reading this. Dad is reading and laughing. I love the picture of tug of war with Harper.
ReplyDeleteI was cracking up when I made the big comparison picture because his pose on his back at 6 months looks almost identical to this month. The big difference is the tummy pose!
DeleteI transitioned Liam form the adapter to the stroller seat too! He doesn't get jostled much when we run. I stick to neighborhoods though, so the ride is a little smoother. I also reclined the seat a little so he doesn't have to work so hard at keeping his neck up. I miss looking at him when I run too, but he'll turn his head and look up at me through the flap and smile. It melts my heart! It also puts my mind at ease because he gets more of a breeze from the front-facing seat- it's unbearably hot here!
ReplyDeleteThat makes me feel better about putting him straight into the stroller when we run. I'll have to try reclining the seat! When we go on walks a lot of times he ends up with he head sliding to the side because he's tired. That's a great idea!
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