7 1/2 Months Old!

Hi everybody! I'm 7 months old now and I am such a happy baby. Check me out. Don't I look cool wearing my brother's "matey hat?"

I've had a busy summer! As you can tell from the picture, I can sit up now. I'm such a big boy. I am not crawling yet but I am rocking which according to my mommy means it won't be long. I am really good at rolling though. I can roll halfway across the room, pivot on my tummy and roll off in another direction. I'm pretty determined when I see something I want to get and it's usually one of my brother's toys or the newspaper. Things I'm not supposed to play with are much more enticing than the things I'm allowed to play with. I also have two teeth and Mommy says as soon as the new computer gets here, she'll upload those pictures for me.

I'm napping much better too. When I was younger, I'd only nap about 20 minutes at a time, but now I sleep for 1-2 hours at a time. I'm eating stage 2 baby foods now and I also love feeding myself the Gerber Graduates Puffs. My mommy told the pediatrician that at my 6 month check-up and she couldn't believe I could pick them up and eat them. But since I was, she said it was ok to keep eating them. Good thing, because I'm not about to give them up. I really like feeding myself. Mommy says it won't be long till she can give me more foods to feed myself. I like eating like a big boy.

Speaking of my six month check-up, I was 29 inches long (100+ percentile), 20 lbs 11 ounces (95th percentile), and my head was 18 1/4 inches (95th percentile). I'm still longer than my brother was, by an inch, but his head was off the chart and he outweighed me by 1 ounce.

I now love to squeal and scream. If you need to find my mommy in a store, just listen for me and you'll find her quickly. My brother never yelled as loud as I did, but I think it's fun. Luckily most of the time, my family eats at noisy restaurants so it hasn't been a problem.