~Seven Months~

Dear Rowen,

Yesterday was your seven month birthday.  Like any ordinary day, your dad and I continued to fall more in love with you.  Today when I picked you up from daycare my heart melted like it does every time you give me one of your little gummy smiles!

Speaking of your gums, there are no signs of teeth.  While you will gnaw on anything you can get your hands on, I don't see any white spots on your gums and there doesn't appear to be a tooth breaking through.  This makes things a little tough for you because its obvious you would love for us to give you some different foods, mainly the ones we are eating, but without those teeth, its baby food for you!  Typically if you are home with us you will eat cereal and fruit, yogurt, and a bottle for breakfast, a fruit and vegetable and bottle for lunch, veggies and meat with fruit and yogurt for dinner, and then a bottle shortly before bed!  You love to eat, and if we aren't shoveling the food at you fast enough you growl at us!

Eating is one of the only times you will sit still for us these days.  A couple of weeks ago you started commando crawling across the floor with just your arms and now it is a full body exercise and you are fast!  Sometimes you get up on your hands and knees but most times you go back down to your belly because you know you can get around faster that way!  Long gone are the days of putting you down in one place and coming back to find you still there, usually you end up across the room!

You continue to wear 6-9m and 6-12m clothing and a size three diaper.  The growth spurt seems to have slowed a bit which I'm happy about so I can enjoy you as a baby just a little longer.  You laugh all the time, especially at your day and at Jack and Lola.  If we put you in the playpen to play you sit in there and babble, laugh, and coo to yourself.  I think once you start talking you are going to be a chatter box!

Firsts this month:
1. Pumpkin patch
2. Halloween
3. Commando Crawling

Happy seven months sweet boy, we love you Chicken Little!