Well, a week and a half ago you turned 7 months! I’ll excuse my tardiness by saying I was waiting to take milesone pictures when the scratch on your face healed, but it turns out the stratch became infected and it looks like you were in a bar fight! I would really hate to see the other kid! This was your first sick visit to the doctor and fist round of antibiotics, given that we have a big sister at home and you go to daycare, I would that’s a pretty good run!!
The main event last month was exploring solid food! With encouragement from Ms. Brenda at school, you’re now eating breakfast, lunch, dinner, and some snacks throughout the day. So far you seem to like eating most things, but you get frustrated with some of the baby-led weaning style foods I serve so I am also making pureed foods. Nadia jumped into baby-led weaning full-force so it’s kind of funny that despite you being my second child, this is my first time making baby food! Fruits seem to be your favorite– peaches, watermelon, banana, and strawberries have all been favorites. You love nibbling on corn on the cobb (Nadia hated that as a baby!) and this week were interested in trying some bites of Sloppy Joe and steak.
You are confidently sitting up all by yourself and can manage to go from sitting to your belly and can roll over onto your back if needed. Just this past week you started getting up on your hands and knees so it won’t be much longer until you’re crawling. I can’t believe how fast you’re breezing through these gross motor milestones!
You cut your first two teeth (center bottom) this month, unfortunately during the drive to Conneticut to visit Uncle Brett, Aunt Emily, Eleanor and Uncle Jason. You were cranky each day the tooth cut through but we had a lot of fun visiting Eleanor and playing at the beach, Eleanor gave you the nickname “baby bunny.”
Sleeping has been a bit rough lately. You are such a distracted feeder during the day, that you cut out one daytime bottle at daycare and have decided it most optimal to go to bed around 8pm and wake up at 10pm and 2am and usually 4am for nursing sessions. It’s easy to focus on breastfeeding when the room is nice and dark and only mom is awake! Thank goodness for coffee and having the long perspective to see this truly is just a phase and eventually we will all get 5-8 hours of uninterrupted sleep.