7 Months

Another month gone by and with it a lot of changes. Ian is starting to grow faster now. I know it was suppose to happen; the doctors said his weight would slow down and his height would kick into gear, however, I don’t believe I’m ready for it. It’s kind of odd to get a set of pajamas out and find they fit one night and then two nights later they don’t fit anymore. Ian is definitely starting to lose his chubbiness. Don’t worry, his Michelin rolls are still there, but you can actually tell where his neck is now. He’s losing a lot of it due to the crawling. Yes, he is on the move, so be warned…you may want to baby proof your house if Ian is coming over. I caught him chasing Toby the other day. He followed her all the way to the bedroom. It was so cute, but it made us realize that we couldn’t put off getting a gate any longer.

All of the teething discomfort we’ve been going through the last couple of months has finally come to a conclusion. He has a tooth and he bite me today. Granted, not where it would really hurt, but he was definitely hungry and was letting me know. You can’t really see the tooth (maybe teeth) yet, but you can feel it. Hopefully, this means that we’re going to get a break before the next tooth wants to pop up.

We’ve been given the go ahead to give Ian some meats now and he’s tried chicken, beef, and ham. We had a little set back with beef. We’re not sure if he was just being fussy that day or if the beef didn’t sit well, so we took a day off from that and when we tried giving it to him again, he seemed fine. We have veal and turkey up next. We also went out and bought a food processor. It isn’t anything spectacular, but I’ve been told it works well. Now we get to try some of the fun veggies – avocados, cucumbers, green bell peppers, zucchini, etc. Since the food processor is a hand crank, it kind of mangled the grapes we tried last night, so hopefully it’ll work better with the veggies. If it doesn’t, maybe we’ll find an electric one. We did process some of the chicken I made for dinner tonight. It worked well, except we had to add a little water to mush it up.

I can’t really think of anything else that sticks out for this month.