7 Month Milestones

Happy birthday, baby boy.  You're seven months old!  (It is currently late August)

Right now, you're celebrating it by screaming your head off in the other room with New Mom.

Okay, now New Mom is back, and you're still crying.

Okay, now he started again...and I'm going to have to continue this post later...

CUT TO: The Second Week of September

Alright, I've come to realize the "milestones" are more like gradual changes, or maybe we just stopped keeping track of every little teeny tiny thing he does (Another tooth?  How many is that?  - Really, how many is that?)?

He's now eating some very ground up and shredded meat, his poos smell really bad, and he seems to have caught on that when you put him down to sleep, crying doesn't help, so he might as well just go to sleep...after screaming for a few minutes.  (He HATES sleeping.)

Yay, we're all caught up!

Of course, the point of this thing is to keep track, so I'll try to write milestones as they come.  Right now we're on the lookout for "crawl" and "first word" and "walk" (why not?).  Also, holding his own bottle while he feeds would be nice... (Right now he just leans back with a "feed me, peasant!" look on his baby-king face...)  Those things will come, I'm guessing...

Here's a few things that may change:

Current Favorites, or at least, things his parents push on him and he seems to like

Books:
Goodnight Moon
Goodnight Gorilla
There's a Wocket in My Pocket! (Board Book version,*)
Mr. Brown Can Moo!  Can You?

Books he's tired of:
The Going to Bed Book (Sorry Sandra (Boynton)!)

Music:
CCR - Greatest Hits, Volume I
Bob Marley - Legend
Lullabies...or something like that, I'm not going to go check the CD for the "official" name

Music he's tired of:
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Greatest Hits
(or at least New Mom is tired of that CD, because it is GONE)

Movies/TV:
None yet...he's only 7 months!  You're not supposed to allow him to watch screens until he's 2!  Bad parents would argue differently, but hey, that's why they're bad parents... (Kidding, I'm sure we'll put him in front of a screen within six months...or the next time he screams.)

Toys:
Green Shark
Mr. Sassy
Magazines, newspaper, anything that crunches and he can RIP UP
Leaves and trees - that he can RIP UP

Hates:
Clothes changes
Diaper change


And...that's all the minutiea that I can conjure up at 10pm on a Friday night.  Wow, what a Friday night!  Woo woo!

Oh shit, there's still dishes to do.

Yay, Friday.

 -ND



* We recently discovered the board book is freaking DIFFERENT that the regular version: ie: There is NO verse that actually has a "wocket" - in a pocket, or anywhere else!  What the ef, Dr. Seuss!  I'm beginning to doubt your medical credentials!**

** First time anyone has made a joke questioning the "Dr." in Dr. Seuss's name...