7 Months!

Milestones

• Baby H is sitting up like a champ.
• He's tried a few more different types of food: Sweet Potatoes, Avocados, Apple Sauce and Pears
• He turns pages in his books and he grabbed the spoon and fed himself the other day.
• He has just started to wave at people.
• First time on an airplane! Overall, he handled it really well.
• First time to a new state, which was Texas. (It was my first time to Texas too.) We went for Danny's brother's wedding.

Likes

• He is really liking his little jumper activity center. He doesn't really jump in it, though. He more tries to walk and is bounced around.
• His toes! And putting those toes in his mouth.
• Grunting, yelling, making noise in general. He can be a very loud baby.
• He thinks it is hilarious when I pretend to eat his hands.
• FaceTime! He's grabs for my phone all the time now if he sees it.
• He's especially liking books this month. When he's sad, we sit down and read a few, and it calms him down. He likes to turn the pages himself and sometimes tries eating them as well.
• When I'm holding him and he is tired, I stroke his little face. It kind of puts him in a trance, it relaxes him so much.

Dislikes

• He gets mad and cries every night when I put him in his pajamas. I think he has figured out it means bedtime.
• Takeoffs and landings. I tried to nurse him so it didn't hurt his ears as much, but he still was pretty upset about it.
• All food that isn't his mommy's milk or rice cereal, but we keep trying. And now for a table of the levels of disgust concerning solid food. He's tried each of these foods 4-5 times.

Most Disgusting

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Apple Sauce and Pears

(Level: Mouth clamped shut, none of that stuff is getting in.)

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Bananas

(Level: Will be allowed into mouth, but promptly spat out.)

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Sweet Potatoes 

(Level: Will allow in mouth and sometimes swallow, but gagging may occur.)

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Avocados

(Level: Will eat and swallow, but will grimace with each bite.)

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Least Disgusting (but still disgusting)

A Few Tidbits

• I love his little babbling and laughing. It's so cute.
• As mentioned above, it has been a funny experience trying to get this boy to try baby food. However, I have found if I sing to him, he is more likely to open his mouth, Mainly because it distracts him. He's very particular, because not any song will do. I've tried multiple songs, but the songs he will eat to are as follows: "The Wheels on the Bus", "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam", "Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree" and "Once There was a Snowman". 
• He can't talk yet, of course, but he will make the sounds for Uh-Uh and Uh-Huh and sometimes has impeccable timing with these new sounds. One day I was nursing him. He doesn't like any noise when nursing, especially if I talk. Danny came home and I was asking him something. Baby promptly stopped eating and just stared at me. I looked down and said jokingly, "I'm sorry, am I interrupting you?" He replied, "Uh-Huh" and went back to eating, that is until Danny and I couldn't stop laughing and he stopped again trying to figure out what was going on.
• He also makes the sound for Mama when he is crying, but again I don't think he knows what it means yet.
• He got to meet his Florida cousins, his Kansas cousins, his Uncle Tim and his new Aunt Brisa at the wedding, which was a lot of fun.
• He saw bubbles for the first time at the wedding and was fascinated by them. He would reach out his cute, chubby hands to try and grab them. It was darling.
• He also got to play on grass for the first time on a warm day at the park.  He was very interested by it.
• Remember that one time I said it seems he favors his left hand. I take that back. He uses his left and right hand equally.