Growing Boy!

Carson turned 8 months yesterday!! Such a big boy! Before he grows too much more, let's recap month 7!

7 months

7 Months 
(Jan 18-Feb 17)

•  You have become quite a good crawler. When you first turned 7 months your favorite things to crawl to were Roxy and cell phones.
• You have been eating A LOT better. You will pretty much eat whatever I give you and you especially love your fruit! You eat two whole containers of baby food at lunch and dinner
• You can put the little finger foods in your mouth by yourself
• For some reason you have decided that it is okay to snuggle with Mommy every once and a while. You will put your head on my shoulder/chest. You especially do this when you know I am going to put you down for a nap or in the carseat. It is like you are getting one last snuggle in before you go down. Or maybe you are hoping that if you snuggle up to me I won’t put you down. Or maybe you are starting to have separation anxiety…who knows. You also started doing this when you get nervous or scared. Like when the vacuum is on or when Mimi and Pops took us to the Zoo and you were afraid of the statue animals. Silly boy
• You are beginning to pull yourself up on things—everything, even things that cannot support you.
• You are standing up in your crib and sucking the sides—which makes nap time a little more fun for you, not so much for me!
• You will crawl to our legs and want us to pick you up
• You love drinking water out of a straw from Mommy or Daddy
• Went to the phoenix zoo for the first time
• Love talking out at story time—you LOVE the songs we sing there. The older man that helps that woman that runs the show told me that you are his favorite baby to watch there because you are always so happy and excited.
• You are being such a good boy at church and will play quietly on the floor. Early church sure does make him less grumpy
•  You started pulling up on the back of my legs while I am blow drying my hair. You will hold on and stand behind me the whole time I am drying my hair. It is hilarious.
• You LOVE the baby cheese puff sticks…basically cheetos. For some reason when I give you the Garden Tomato ones you get little splotches around your mouth, but not with other flavors. Hope you aren’t allergic to tomatoes. :/
•  You got your 2 bottom teeth within days of each other. You didn’t even fuss! Tough Cookie!
• Sleeping 12 hours at night and usually 2-2hour naps
• Size 3 diapers
• Love Barney (why do kids like that big purple dino) and Yo Gabba Gabba
• Started the first level of real swimming lessons and you are doing great! You can hang on the side of the pool all by yourself and basically crawl out, with a little help from Mama!
• You found the pups water bowl …I guess they will be moving up
• You have found all the cords and outlets too! You especially love pulling the wallflowers out.
• You love other people, but play the shy boy when random ladies give you attention
• Started blowing raspberries