Caleb's 7 months

1. Caleb is 7 months old!

2. He weighs about 18 pounds, 12 and a half ounces, and is in the 66th percentile.

3. He is 27 inches and in the 51st percentile for height. He's growing nice and steady! :)

4. Caleb is always banging his head up and down. I'm not sure why he does it, but he looks like one of those bobble head toys. :) He does it so close to things when he's on his tummy scooting around that I'm always worried he's going to bonk his head into something.

5. I think Caleb is probably our earliest scooter. He started making his way around with kind of a side roll push around 6 months old and that quickly developed into a pretty fast army crawl. He's now making his way all around the house and having so much fun exploring all the corners and getting his hands on all the toys and papers that he finds.

6. It's probably not so much his fault, but he's a horrible napper. I've made the mistake of nursing him to sleep, and now he's pretty dependent on it. He's not that bad in the middle of the night. He sleeps with us and actually sleeps pretty well. I only nurse him once maybe twice in the night, but his naps are difficult. If I don't nurse him to sleep or at least hold him until he falls asleep, he just won't fall asleep. And when I do nurse him to sleep, I lay him down and he wakes up so quickly when he notices he's not being held. We're working on a little sleep training lately. At least trying to get him to fall asleep on his own in his crib at the beginning of the night. He's doing somewhat okay, but it's hard. I hate the process of letting him cry, soothing him, and hearing him cry again as soon as I leave, and doing it over and over again until he falls asleep.

7. So Caleb has had a weird start to eating solids. He seemed very interested and excited about solids when we first started. He seemed to like most everything. He was always looking at us eating during meals with so much interest and he showed us so much excitement. Then, he got sick and had to be given medicine. He hated the medicine. And I had a not so fun time trying to get him to take it - I would use his paci and squeeze little bits into his mouth and then give him the paci and force him to suck it and swallow. I think maybe it was that experience or maybe he was just sick for awhile, but he pretty much refused to eat or even try some new things. He would look all excited for food and then as soon as he saw the spoon coming towards his mouth, he would close his mouth and turn away from it, refusing to try it. I even tried only giving him the really good stuff for awhile, but still he didn't want any. :( So then we tried getting food pouches, putting the baby food in them, and letting him feed himself. Well either he started feeling better from whatever illness he may have had or he just loved it after that. It was super messy, but he liked food again. :)

8. He loves to put everything in his mouth right now. And since he's scooting around so much now, we have to keep an extra careful eye on him at all times cuz he finds things to put in his mouth from all over. He seems to especially love going and finding shoes to suck on or paper to eat. :P

9. Caleb is still our little noise machine. He's starting to make more gabbing sounds and he'll randomly scream or squawk or something. I'm pretty sure he's starting to recognize his name now too. :)


10. It's so fun seeing him with the other kids. Claire is learning how to hold him in different ways and picking him up. I've started letting her occasionally pick him up off the ground and carry him to me or just to pull him away from somewhere where he shouldn't be scooting to. Everett still loves to make him laugh and Seth still gets so protective of him. I think Caleb has gotten used to being bumped around by Seth. I've even occasionally found Seth trying to sit on him when he's on his tummy scooting around. He's going to learn to be tough with these older brothers around. :P