7 Months Old

Dear Ben,

You are now 7 months old!


7 months old, October 14, 2011



It sure has been an awesome month for you.  You've conquered some major milestones and you've done a lot of growing. 

You're in between size 6 months and size 9 months clothes and you wear size 3 diapers. 

You love your sister and your puppy very much.  You're always trying to crawl after them.  You try to pull yourself up on McKenna, but she doesn't like that very much! 



I can't believe how old you have seem to become this month.  Your gross motor development has skyrocketed!  You've graduated from army crawling to crawling on all fours, you sit up on your own, and you're pulling yourself up on EVERYTHING!  You've even started to let go of things you're pulling up on.  Thank goodness you now know how to ease yourself back down to sitting from standing, so we're not as worried about you falling on your face.  Needless to say, you're ALL over the place now! 



You love to put my phone and the TV remote in your mouth too.  You love to cuddle with your stuffed animals and your blankets.  You usually bring your blanket right up to your face and snuggle it with your thumb in your mouth. You are just so stinkin' cute!



You're always sticking out your tongue!



You are such a good boy.  You're always so happy and smiling.  You only cry when we're not feeding you fast enough or if you're tired.  You're just such a sweet boy, who loves everyone.  



You're a really good eater.  For breakfast you have cereal and a fruit or yogurt, for lunch a fruit and a vegetable and for dinner you have cereal (or oatmeal) a fruit and a vegetable.  You always finish all of your food.  You like to munch on puffs, cheerios, and yogurt bites.  You've gotten really good at picking them up and putting them in your mouth using your pincher grasp.  You're always trying to grab our food when we're eating, too.  You just want to eat, eat, eat!  We're still working on drinking out of a sippy cup.  You can bring it up to your mouth, but you still don't understand that you're supposed to tip it up. 

Your favorite toys are your activity table, Leap Frog Spin Spin a Letter, and anything Kenna is playing with!  You also love Trippy's toys!  You're always crawling and grabbing them out of her basket.   



You love taking baths. You like to kick and splash and chew on the bath toys. You sit like a big boy in the bath seat. You don't care one bit that it is pink! I think that you love the fact that you get to play with Kenna too and she can't go anywhere!



This month we starting putting on videos for you and McKenna.  Wow.  We didn't know the affect they'd have!  You love to watch the Baby Noah, Baby Einstein DVD... and that's it.  If we put on any other movie or TV show and you both could care less, but as soon as Baby Noah is on, your eyes don't leave the screen.    You're just like your Daddy when he's watching the Cardinals!  You love the animals and you giggle and laugh at the funny things the puppets do.  You're just so aware! 



It was an awesome month for Daddy.  His most favorite team in the whole world, the St. Louis Cardinals, won the World Series.  He couldn't be more excited to share it with you and Kenna.  Although you guys were asleep for most of the games, we made sure you showed your pride all day long.  I'm pretty sure the Cards are now your favorite team too, Daddy won't have it any other way!  Go Cards!





You're now able to sit up in the wagon and when it was still warm enough, you loved going for a walk to the park.  We're lucky because we have a park right down the street from our house.  You like swinging, going down the slide, and playing in the sand box. 





Aunt Puggie likes swinging with you!



Oh my sweet boy, just know you are the most perfect little boy in the whole world.

I love you so much.

Love,

Mommy