seven months.

i meant to post this weeks ago but i still wanted to get it on here for the record! hope you enjoy! oh and i have to apologize to beckett...i have no idea why i had your pants so high...didn't realize they needed to be pulled down!!! oops.

Beckett is now seven months. time is just flying by...skipping minutes and days. we fall more and more in love with him every second. he is just coming into himself so quickly. this month has been exciting, he is now on the move. he started walking in his walker and by the next day he was pretty much running. it didn't take him long to get the hang of it. he is sitting so well by himself. i can actually walk away and trust that he won't fall over and if he starts to, he can catch himself. he doesn't show any signs of crawling any time soon. although, he is spending more time on his stomach and sometimes will pull his knees up. we know it's just a matter of time and then it's no turning back! ha. he has started to reach for us. it is so cute....you can tell he is proud that he is able to convey the message of "get me." he just melts my heart. he talks and talks and talks. he can just be sitting by himself and just talking away. i have no idea where he gets that from? ha. he is starting to realize cause and effect. he knows how to get our attention...he understands that we will respond to any noise he makes and he looks and waits for a response. he loves playing peek-a-boo. he just laughs. He HATES to get dressed. he squirms and squirms as if he knows he is making it difficult. Ornery little thing....don't know where he gets that either? ha. he now likes to sit in his johnny jump up and watch me fold laundry or clean. he just talks and spins in circles. if it is within his reach, it is in his hands and then his mouth. he will grab anything and everything. he loves to feel different textures....he just rubs his hands over everything. i think his favorite thing to do right now is play in his room. he just sits on the floor playing with everything from building blocks, puzzles, stuffed animals, books. he could do it for hours. he really loves music. you can tell it has a calming and comforting effect on him. he just watches me when i sing to him. i'm always saying "where's da da?" he will look around and try and find dan. he loves his daddy. he loves to give open mouth kisses...he definitely knows that is a sign of affection. amazing to me how he learns everything so quickly...just incredible. he just seems like he is becoming more and more independent...it's so exciting yet so sad for me.

what he is eating....

are still using our baby food maker and loving it. he has tasted a number of different things now. turkey (gagged), chicken, potatoes, sweet potatoes, green peas, loves loves yo baby yogurt, oatmeal cereal, still loves prunes and bananas, hated asparagus and rice pudding.

7 month Stats

size- 3-6 months are getting small, some 9 month PJ's (i couldn't believe it)

size 2 diapers

weight- approx. 13lbs 6oz. (naked on scale at home)

length-

daily routine....

none, ha. jk. somewhat the same but no specific schedule. just when i think he is on a schedule, he changes it. the past week or so he has been on a crazy schedule.

things i don't want to forget

• how he clinches his fist together and brings them back and forth to his mouth
• still rubbing his head really slow
• softly banging our heads together and he just smiles
• he laughs while i read to him
• on November 19th, he walked in his walker for the first time, he loves his walker
• on november 18th, he sat in his high chair for the first time and ate dinner with mommy and daddy at the table, we had steak, he had organic chicken puree, and prunes, he loves prunes so much
• how he has progressed to almost running in the walker, he is able to maneuver it so well. he can turn it on a dime
• he has started smacking his lips real fast, like he is making music
• how he lays on the ground just rubbing the floor back and forth with his hands
• how he reaches and tries to grab the knots on the hard wood floor
• how when he gets excited he breaths in and out really hard through his nose
• how when he is eating he swings his arms around in the air
• how he sat in the high chair at Freshies (restaurant) all by himself for the first time
• how he has been waking up at night and somehow weasels his way into our bed, he loves sleeping with us, he sleeps like a log
• how we danced to christmas music one night, and he just smiled and laughed
• how he just watched us put up the christmas lights but then he got totally bored with that
• how he bangs steel bowls with plastic cooking spoons, he loves noise.
• how he wanted to eat his cereal from a plastic cooking spoon one day, he loved it
• how he is starting to reach for us when he wants out of his chair or walker
• how he just gets so happy when i walk in the door from work
• how he loves peek-a-boo
• how he leans real far to the side and tilts his head
• one night when i got home from work, we just played in his room and i started hanging him upside down by his waist and blowing raspberries on his belly, he loved it and kept wanting to do it over and over
• taking a tub in the kitchen sink and can sit very well on his own while doing so
• how he loves to be rinsed with the removable hand wand faucet in the sink
• the night of dec 8, i rocked and sang christmas songs to him he just lied in my arms watching and listening, touching my face and the blanket repeatedly. he fell asleep un-swaddled, i put him to bed and it lasted all of about, 45 minutes. still needs to be swaddled!
• he loves his glow-worm that grandma melody bought him
• he loves his building blocks
• how he has no interest in crawling but he wants to be on the move
• he is constantly move his arms and legs
• how he can sit very well on his own
• how he is starting to try and pull himself up. you can tell he is trying to use his quads and biceps in the process
• how he is starting to figure how the sippy cup works
• how he likes to gnaw on any frozen fruit
• how he gagged when he tasted rice pudding and turkey (maybe later :) )
• how sometimes i swear he is trying to sing
• he loves eskimo kisses, he just laughs
• how he has became just a little snuggler

i love you beckett, to the moon and back!