month seven

What a fun month! You're doing something new every couple days - it's hard to keep up with all your new stuff. To list the technical stuff... you have sitting and rolling mastered (and just yesterday when I sat you down, you wanted to be on your hands and knees! - it only lasted a few seconds but it's a sign you're interested in crawling). You're taking a bath with Andrew now - sitting up in the bath chair. You have 2 bottom teeth and I think the top 2 are going to be showing up any day now. You're sitting up in the stroller and you ride in the cart - you love both of these! You are enjoying food, but I think you want more. You're losing interest in bottles already and since you're a big boy (already in 12 month clothes!) you need to eat. I asked daycare to start feeding you twice a day and I was told they started doing that earlier this week. I guess they could tell you like food too!

You continue to be a cutie. You've started to do a little squeal/giggle thing that is so fun to listen to. It's funny though because you do it at random times - I guess you're good at entertaining yourself! You also like to snuggle. Sometimes you'll be standing up on my lap and you grab some of my hair in each of your hands and pull yourself close to me and snuggle into my face. It might not sound cute, but it's adorable.

You're always happy and smiling. I love how easy it is to make you smile! And you continue to love Andrew. He can make you smile and laugh too. Maybe even easier than me or your dad can.

The next big step in your life will be moving out of our room. And even though you're a good sleeper, if you're anything like Andrew, you'll sleep even better in your own room. It's hard for me though. I love, love having you in our room. And if you're not sleeping well I love to pull you into bed and snuggle. You like it too. When I pick you up you instantly get into cuddle position and rest your head on my shoulder.

Thanks for being such a wonderful, easy going, fun little guy who likes to eat, sleep, smile and snuggle. And even though I am trying to remind myself that babies learn new things at different paces, thanks for being on track with your milestones so far...

Love, your mom.