Caleb - 7 Months Old

Hey, I'm 7 months old now!

Another month has passed now and Caleb is now over half the way to his first birthday! Who can believe it? It was just a little bit ago that I first held my little Caleb in my arms, right?

Caleb is a happy baby. He makes us all smile. Over the past couple of months, Caleb has developed a laugh, and its a belly laugh. I love it. His smile spreads across his whole face and he laughs with his entire body. L-O-V-E--I-T!

These days, Caleb is into anything that is within reach. He is quite proficient at sitting up and reaching for things.

He nurses or drinks a bottle every 3-4 hours, and now he is a big fan of solid foods. Besides rice cereal, he also eats bananas, applesauce, pears, green beans, carrots, and sweet potatoes. Still no teeth, but it could be any day!

Favorite toys and activities these days involve watching everything that is going on, pulling off his socks and eating them (or his toes), sucking his thumb, and bouncing, wherever he is. He loves to play with any chew toy, his jingly frog, musical table, jumparoo, or musical activity center. Caleb doesn't crawl yet, but he can spin and roll to end up someplace completely different than where you left him. He has started liking peekaboo and still loves silly faces.

Stats for this month: 19 lbs, 8 oz and 29.5 inches long. He wears mostly size 6 months clothes, plus some 6-9 months (if one-piece), and size 3 diapers.

Happy 7 month birthday Caleb! We love you very much.

Homemade Highchair

Adam and I had some playtime in the grass. He watches my every move while I water the flowers.

Then David came home and Adam lit up! He loves his daddy.

Here are Adam's first little dirty feet! Ironically, this happened at my grandmother's house, who always has the cleanest house in town. (It was outside Mamaw, I promise!)

We have come such a long way with rice cereal! Adam now LOVES eating with a spoon even though he hasn't quite mastered it yet. Already, though, he wants to hold it himself. Ahhh.....don't grow up so fast! He loves applesauce, bananas, and pears, and makes, "Mmmm..." noises with nearly every bite. Looks like our boy didn't fall far from the tree with his love of food!

Here is my grandmother feeding Adam at her house on Friday. It was sort of an impromptu meal!

And here was Grandad holding him up the entire time.

Adam pays so much more attention to everything around him now. He watches everything so carefully, and now has favorite toys. It melts my heart when he falls asleep holding them! Here is his little bee that plays "twinkle twinkle little star". We often call it "bug" at our house for some reason. Bug, bee, butterfly, whatever. He likes it.

And we're still jumping! Wait...this jumparoo looks different. Oh yeah - my mom loved ours so much she bought one too. It matches the little playmat jungle gym that is at David's mom's house. Poor, poor first grandchild....

Adam had his physical therapy appointment last week on his 7 month birthday. This was a checkup type appointment that was scheduled before we left the NICU. The therapist evaluated him and felt that he was doing wonderfully and was right on track for where he should be. His strength and reflexes were good, too. She said that she didn't have anything that she could really pick on but she gave us a few tricks to help Adam work on his balance for sitting alone and to help him roll and pull himself up. On his 7 month b'day he weighed ~14 lbs, 10 ounces.