Seven Months

On Sunday, Josiah turned seven months old. When he was born, I remember people telling me how quickly time flies when your kids are little. For the first four months I thought they were crazy! Those early months just dragged on forever- it felt like more than a year had gone by! But the last three have flown, and I can finally understand what they were trying to say. I sometimes wonder how Josiah has gotten so big and old so quickly!

Here are just a few things he is doing...

- Josiah holds his own sippy cup, and has been doing this for over a month now. He does pretty good, and doesn't hit himself in the head with it nearly as much as he used to.

- He is eating lots of different fruits and vegetables, and rice and oat cereal. He even had his first teething cookie last week. Josiah is starting to pick things up with his finger/thumb, so hopefully he'll try to feed himself soon. He attempts with the spoon, and even dips it into the bowl himself, but, as you can see, this results in huge messes!

-He gets up on his hands and knees and rocks, pushing himself still backwards. The only way he moves forward is by a judo-push-up-like crawl, sticking his bottom straight up in the air. It looks way more challenging than the traditional crawl, but I guess he just hasn't figured that one out yet! We have still had to do some child-proofing, because he no longer stays where we put him.

-Josiah says dad and mom (the sounds anyway- I don't actually think he is calling us these yet!). One of the sounds he makes sounds like "mom mom baa", sounding an awful lot like mom is bad. Hopefully he'll lose that combo soon!

- We think there are more teeth coming. Lots of growling and attacking continues. Right now, he still only has the bottom two.

- Josiah is sitting really well for the most part, and has been able to go from a crawling position to a sitting position on his own and vise-versa for a while. He can stand for a bit with someone holding his hands, but generally does not seem interested in this yet!

- We are now finding summer clothes, and he is wearing 18-24 months, so he has stabilized a bit. Hopefully no more growth spurts in the near future, or he'll be wearing a diaper for the summer!

- He loves to play, and shows preference for certain toys over others. He still smiles and laughs a lot, and is becoming more and more social, if that is possible.

- Oh, and for those who have asked, Josiah is still taking his socks off and putting them in his mouth. We still don't know why!

And that's our boy!