wonderfully made: davis jeffrey

GROWTH

WEIGHT: Unsure...but guessing 18.5 lbs

CLOTHING: Solidly in 6-12 months and 9 months!

DIAPERS: 4! I think we used one box of 3's. He's still sleeping in size 6's and needs every bit of them!

LOVES

people watching
drinking milk
sitting up
attention
face grabbing
kisses on his face and belly
being held up or thrown up in the air
jumping/running in place in his bouncer
being on his tummy
spinning in circles
apples
pears
watching/laughing at Beau
watching the cat and dog

FIRSTS

time in the highchair at a restaurant
first fruit (pear)
sitting up
sleeping on his stomach
snow! it snowed for about 5 minutes the other day. It didn't stick. It doesn't look like we will get snow this year :(
fort worth stock show visit
museum visit
birthday party (for someone else)
olympics!
Valentine's Day

EATING

He's making big strides in eating. We have done lots of pureed fruits and vegetables and he still has rice cereal every few days. I'm going to start trying more solid foods like bananas and such and work our way up. I'm super nervous about foods based on what we dealt with during his first few months of life but I know that now is the time to push ahead so he doesn't 'miss the bus' on all of these food related developmental milestones. Lately he's been taking more bottles and eating more purees so I think we will up how much he is eating so he can go longer stretches. I can't believe he's already at this point, it's so crazy! My brain needs to catch up.

SLEEP

Sleep has gotten slightly better...He did a 10 hour stretch (7-5) at one point but is pretty consistently doing 6-7 hours. I can't complain, it's better than it was a few months ago! He is liking to roll onto his stomach to sleep and most recently he's been circling his crib and I'll find him facing the complete opposite direction. I've been working hard on laying him down awake for naps and about 70% of the time he will put himself to sleep. If he's upset, though, he is pretty stubborn about not giving up crying and I end up having to spend 20 minutes soothing, rocking, and mission-impossible-style laying him down. At night he is almost always ready to go to bed so depending on what his eating schedule looked like that day he will either eat or not but he's pretty content to go into his crib in any state of consciousness. He's always in bed before 8, usually before 7, and occasionally before 6. He's pretty much up for the day by 8am.

HEALTH

Things have been super chill on this front! No sicknesses so far. He's now had both of his flu shots and we are just praying that all of us are in the clear for this flu season.

SOCIAL/PLAYING

Beau and Davis are starting to interact even more and it's just the best. Davis is finally sitting up (!!!) so he can reach for more and Beau and he are about equal when it comes to playing with whatever toy is in front of them. We were at the doctor for Davis' second shot and Beau always plays with the train table. I realized I could finally set Davis down to play with the infant activity center and as soon as Beau saw that he left his trains and came over to play with Davis. SO CUTE!

Davis is all over the place and spins in circles constantly. He gets frustrated when a toy is out of reach and he is SO CLOSE to crawling. I wouldn't be surprised if he makes his first move in the next week. Ah! I'm not ready!

(here's a peek at his room...which of course I haven't gotten around to blogging yet!)

PARENTING

Ahhhh....this was the moment I've been waiting for. 7 months was one of my favorite stages with Beau and I'm so glad we are here with Davis! He is happy 98% of the time, he's sitting up and becoming more mobile. He's starting to eat with us and be a part of dinner time. He is getting on a better nap schedule (one in the morning and typically one long nap in the afternoon - he napped for 3.5 hours a few days ago!!!). Nighttime sleep is getting better. I felt like Beau really started turning into 'himself' (if that makes any sense) right about now. And Beau has been great too! We are actually thinking about things other than babies now. Mark painted a wall I've had on the list for 8 months, we're getting quotes for some work we want done outside, and life has really settled into a groove. I actually feel like I can handle life now!