7 Months Old

3/15/2017
Size 2 Diapers
Size 6 month clothing

Well our happy boy had a much better month than last month.  He was healthy all month long, which was super nice.  He has been sleeping much better at night again.  At the start of the month he decided it was finally time to start rolling over.  He doesn't do it very often, but he can if he wants to.  Shortly after rolling over he started to sit up.  It was pretty crazy, it went from one day sitting up for about 3-5 seconds on his own to the next day sitting up for almost 10 minutes on his own.  I couldn't believe how quickly he got the hang of it.  He still falls over every once in a while, but for the most part can balance really well.  He loves eating solids.  This month we have introduced pears, apples, peaches, peas, squash and puffs.  He will always choose solids over a bottle.  I have to fight him to drink his bottles.  Luckily this week he also started drinking out of sippy cups, so at least we can keep him from getting dehydrated.  He doesn't always get water out but when he does he always has a surprised look on his face.

His schedule is still pretty similar.  Still taking 3 naps a day.  Most nights he will go from 8:00pm until 6:00, eat his bottle, and then go back to sleep until about 7:30 am.  We have dropped one bottle in the afternoon and he eats solids instead.  His schedule typically looks like this:
6:00 am- bottle
8:15 am - small bottle
9:00 am- rice cereal with fruit
10:00-11:00 nap
11:00- small bottle
1:15 pm- bottle
1:30-3:00ish nap;
4:00 pm- solids (usually veggies)
5:15-5:45 nap
6:00 pm- bottle
8:00 pm- bottle
Hopefully soon he will stretch that first feeding until 7:00 or so and I just won't lay him back down and we can drop another bottle and hopefully he will start eating a little more with each bottle.  He loves to sit in his high chair like a big boy when we are eating dinner as a family.

He has gotten really squeally recently.  It is super loud, but I figure as long as it is a happy sound then we are good to go.  I get a lot of funny looks as we are walking through the grocery store with him in the front back and just squealing at the top of his lungs.  Brooklyn thinks it is hilarious and likes to join in, which makes it extra loud and obnoxious.   He also has started to really love the jump-a-roo.  He will just jump like crazy in that thing.  It sure makes getting dinner ready a lot easier.  He is still super clingy, but he did do well last week when my mom watched him.  So here's fingers crossed that he keeps getting a little better.  He is still so smiley.  He always has the biggest smile for you when you get him out of his crib.  He also always has the biggest smile for Craig no matter when. He will just sit and smile at Craig until Craig realizes and smiles back.  I'm sure glad that he still at least goes to Craig and is happy with him.  I am just glad that my little man is happy and healthy and that he is ours forever.

He did not like the baby swing but he did like swinging with me