7 Months

I know, I know...late again...

Milestones/Events:

• You now sit up without any wavering, unless you want to lay yourself on the ground.  But, you still can't get yourself to a seated position when you're laying down.
• Since you've started sitting up, you have no desire to be on your belly or crawl, which drives your father crazy!
• Still no teeth, but you're definitely slobering and chewing on everything lately.
• You are now into fruits...you've tried bananas and applesauce so far...surprisingly, you have not taken to fruits as well as you did to veggies.  It took several days for you to warm up to bananas and you have not enjoyed your applesauce the last couple of days.  Next up is probably peaches or pears.
• We made the mistake of feeding you bananas at night the first time you tried fruit.  You were bouncing off the walls until about 11pm and didn't sleep well at all that night.  From now on, you only get fruit in the mornings with your oatmeal!
• A few days ago, you learned to shake your head "no."  You even respond by shaking your head whenever we say the word "no"...most of the time.  You can't yet nod your head "yes," but you do respond to "yes," by raising your chin a little higher when you shake your head.
• Maybe not the most glamorous thing, but your poop is much harder now...to the point where you have been whiny and uncomfortable while pooping and want to be changed immediately.  This is a big change, since you never let on when you had a poopy diaper before, so we always had to check.  O, and you STINK now with all the food you've been eating! 
• You are now wearing mostly 6 or 9 month clothing, but are even in some 12 month.  We've started buying 12 month clothes.  They may be a little big now, but they'll fit you for a lot longer.  You are in all 12 month PJs, since you wake up if your PJs pull even the slightest bit.  
• We've stopped giving you a bath every night, so that your body can develop its on oils, etc. and so you don't NEED a bath in order to go to sleep.  We generally try to bathe you every other night, unless something comes up.
• You have started dancing to music (whether from the TV, radio or a toy) by swaying your body from one butt cheek to the other. 
• Your first Halloween was CANCELLED due to the freak snow storm that dumped 15" of snow on us 2 days before Halloween.  Some surrounding towns postponed it, but our actually cancelled it.  They opened up the mall for trick or treating that night and we heard it was a madhouse (too many people and the mall ran out of candy in minutes).  We dressed you up and took you over to the neighbors house for a few minutes.  Luckily, you're too young to notice!
• Your next doctor's appointment isn't until after Christmas, so we will have a weight and height check-in then. 

Update: As I was writing this post, you rolled over onto your belly and have stayed sleeping...so far.  You usually sleep on your side.  When you first learned how to roll over, there was about a week where every night you would roll onto your belly and immediately wake up and cry until daddy came in and rolled you back over.   After that week, you never rolled onto your belly in your sleep again, until tonight.