Dear Boy,

You are seven incredible, amazing and beautiful months old.

For your daddy this month, the very most exciting thing was finally hearing you say “Dada!” Once you said it, you didn’t stop and now you say it constantly. I’m ready to start hearing “Mama” again!

You sit for a lot longer now. Unless something to the side distracts you, you easily sit for a minute or more. This month you amazed me by pulling yourself up to standing using a stack of diaper packages leaning against a wall! You’ve been pulling yourself up using our fingers for a long time but this was the first time you did it without help. Your legs are so amazingly strong! You just leaned forward on the diapers, pushed with your legs and up you went. You looked into the mirror and giggled at yourself proudly. You’re so darn cute! You roll around the room like a crazy man, too. You can cross 30 feet in less than a minute and you get into everything. We’re in trouble when you start to crawl! You’ve recently begun to…slither? You slide on your belly and you’re so close to crawling. It won’t be long, I’m sure.

You weigh 16 lbs 13 oz and you are 28 inches long. You gained a pound in weight and half an inch in length this month. It’s really no wonder. You eat like it’s going out of style. You still nurse really well and eat two very large meals per day. The only thing you don’t like so far is chicken. I tried a jar of organic chicken casserole and you ate that, so it must be the texture of the stuff I made. We’ll keep trying, but we’re okay with you choosing to be a vegetarian if you want.

Grandma B bought a booster seat for her table so that you can sit with us at meals there now, and you sure love it! It’s much easier than feeding you in your Bumbo chair when we’re visiting. It’s so cool that we bought you one to take to restaurants and to other people’s houses. You eat much better in a chair that has a tray for you to bang on.

Your sleep has been really wonky for over a week. You have your first cold, which is really sad. We’ve elevated the head of your mattress, which seems to help you breathe, but you get snot all over me when you nurse and it gets really bad when you cry.
You haven’t been going to bed until around 8:30 pm and have been getting up at 5:30 or 6:30 am. You’ve been waking up to nurse at least twice (often 5 or 6 times) and sometimes have been staying awake for an hour or two in the middle of the night. You haven’t been napping well either. This all comes after two weeks of really great daytime sleeps where you put yourself to sleep twice a day for 1.5-2 hours, so it’s a bit of a shock to the system.

You had a wonderful first Halloween. You were a monkey. And a lion. We couldn’t resist either costume (okay, I couldn’t resist) so you got both. You wore your monkey to yoga in the morning and your lion to baby group in the afternoon. Then we combined the two and called you a lonkey!

Life gets better every day, buddy, and it’s all because of you. Everybody loves you so much! You’re a lucky kid, but we’re even luckier because God gave us you.

I love you,
Mommy
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Seven Month Portraits

(I edited out the boogers. You’re welcome.)

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