Seven Months

Seven Months! You have now made it over the curve of your first year and are closer to turning one than being born. Baby Jude, you are so much fun. You are always smiling, rolling, wiggling, flapping your arms, pulling your toes and want so badly to move with your brothers. You are still pretty obsessed with them. Ryder makes you belly laugh in a way that only he can and Finn is your number one big helper. When you're on your belly, you still pull your arms and legs off the ground in your "skydiver" position as we call it. Ryder did the exact same thing. I've had to pull out the old pop n play (play pen) to keep you from rolling your way all around the house. You still love jumping in your jumper and you especially love when your brothers push it like a tire swing before I catch them and tell them to stop. You bathe with the big boys now in our big bath tub and this will continue until you're at least teenagers because I think it's the cutest thing ever.

You are still such the little dream baby. You go with the flow and take more than your fair share of car seat and stroller naps when we're on the go. If you don't get a nap in the morning, you still don't seem to mind. You nap like a champ in the afternoon and thankfully so do your brothers.

You love to eat! You get three 6oz bottles/day and an 8oz bottle at bedtime. You love purees at breakfast and dinner and lunch on days when it's actually convenient for me to sit down and feed it to you. You started eating baby yogurt this month and love it.

As of this post, you're about 7.5 months and you just got your very first tooth last night! I knew it had to be happening soon, but it just popped through and you're still happy as can be. This is how Finn's teeth came. Ryder's were another story. I hope this is setting up our next two years to go really well in this area.

We won't be back at the doctor's office for a check up until 9 months, but I would assume you're around 18lbs. My arms get tired after holding you for extended periods of time and you are just a big ball of squish and I love every bit of it. You're in 9 mo. clothing and size 4 diapers, except I'm trying to finish my last pack of size 3's.

We just love you to pieces, sweet baby Jude and it's a blessing to see you grow!