linden | seven months

Home boy just turned seven months last week, and now we are officially on our way to his first birthday. And yes, I am already thinking about his birthday and what the theme should be. If there's one thing I know, it's that these next five months are gonna race by us.

 

Seriously everybody.  This kid keeps getting better and better every month!!

 

LAST MONTH: 

 

THIS MONTH:

EAT

Eat it up boy. Those words pretty much sum up the fact that this little boy loves his food.  And if you want to see him get really upset mad, just take his spoon away from him to refill it or block his sight from his food, and you'll get an earful for the next five minutes solid.  And once he gets mad about that, there's no calming him down, so instead all I can do is laugh because it's just too funny.  I know, terrible parenting right there.

 

Food-wise, we are still trying out new things, but I'm finding that he really doesn't seem to like anything cold.  That's a shame because ice cream is cold, and I love me some ice cream.  One of our biggest changes this month is that we have started supplementing with formula while he is at daycare.  I think I was a nervous wreck introducing formula, but in true Linden fashion, he didn't really care.

 





 

SLEEP

We made the leap and started sleep training.  I was about as far as I could go with the broken sleep. We've had a pretty consistent nighttime routine since he was 3 months old, but we still had trouble with him crying a ton when we put him in his crib. And then one day, I closed his door on my way out, and he stopped crying. And then I did that again the next night, and same result.. no crying.  So I think we found the trigger for him to fall asleep without any tears. just close the door.

He still wakes up almost every night around 2am out of habit and he'll cry for a minute or so, but then he'll put himself back to sleep.  All in all, it's an ongoing process, but we're getting there.





PLAY

This child is all about playtime.  He doesn't even want to sit on anyone's lap anymore.  If I've got him on my lap, he immediately starts wiggling his away off on to bigger and better things.  If he sees a toy out of reach, it doesn't stop him.  He'll figure out a way to get to it.  And watch out if you think it's safe to take a toy away from him.  Remember how I said he flips out if you take his spoon away?? yeah, same effect if you take his toy away.

 



 

Baby Misc:

Linden LOVES the phone and iPad.  He has to hold the iPad when we FaceTime Nana and Papa.

He can go from laying on his tummy to sitting without hesitation.

He doesn't like holding broccoli.  It goes right to the floor. Every time.

When I try laying him on his back, he manages to flip over to his belly before he touches the changing table.

Diaper changes now take 5 minutes of trying to hold his little hips down from flipping.

I forgot what solid food diapers are like.

   

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