7 Monther

This man is 7 months old today- GEEZ!

• He is growing, growing. He demands to be held 75% of the day and in the past few days my back and my arm have been killing me. I swear he weighs more than he did a week ago.
• He is CRAZY happy when he wakes up in the morning and CRAZY happy right before he goes to bed. I'm pretty sure he knows we are about to put him down for bed so he HAMS it up for us because he thinks we'll let him play for longer (a lot of times we do).
• He claps his hands together and hits things when he's excited
• He LOVES other kids. Anytime he hears a kid's or baby's voice he turns and smiles and stares.
• When both mom and dad are home he likes us both being where he can see us
• He's still army crawling everywhere and is actually really good at it. He'll for real crawl on the tile when he's only in a diaper because he can't scoot as easily
• He still hates his car seat and stroller (it drives me NUTS!). We've started "stroller training" and he is getting a little better.
• He pulls himself up to the standing position, but only when he can lean on something that is shorter than his shoulder height
• He's not loving veggies any more, but I'm working on it. He eats puffs, rice crackers, gnaws on apples, and takes sips of my drinks every so often.
• He's finally down to 2 naps a day, which is HEAVEN for me. He's adjusting really easily actually.
• He babbles and squeals all day long. He is loud!
• He is SOO smiley and he loves the attention he gets from people when he smiles. He's learned that if he smiles at people that they will smile back and usually give him a lot of attention. He plays this up.
• He is seriously so fun and wild. I mean WILD.
• He sleeps about 10 hours at night, but sometimes still wakes up before then. I just let him cry (horrible I know). He usually doesn't cry for long. I feed him after 10 hours and he'll sleep for 2 more hours.
• I've started doing signs with him- just eat, more, and sleep, but he smiles every time I do them. I'm pretty sure he has NO clue what they mean, but he does think they are pretty funny.
• Chance and I seriously can't get enough of Tate. He has so much personality and can get us to do anything and everything.
• I love watching Chance and Tate play and laugh at each other. It melts my mommy heart. He lights up every time Chance walks in the door and squeals and yells.
• He still loves kisses and I can't get enough of his lips. Lately he laughs at Chance every time he kisses him.

..and this sweet picture is one I just found from when he was 4.5 months old. LOVE it, but it makes me so sad to see how much he's grown.