It’s hard for me to believe that you are ALREADY 7 months old, it really just seems like yesterday that you were turning 6 months and yet some how I don’t know where the time went. We are moving into our nostalgic phase with you because with all your new milestones, we leave others behind. Those “others” left behind have been hard for me to let go of & although I try not to cling to them because I know the new milestones coming are just as fabulous as the phases we are leaving behind…I’m just leaving my little bebe behind too & I’m really not quite ready for that. Not only are you an Unassisted Sitter but you rarely tumble over anymore. You reach for things well out of your reach, pick them up with no problem and sit back into your original position as if you’ve been doing it for months. And sometimes I have to stop and tell myself he HAS been doing it for months – only now there are not as many dropped toys or something considered out of your reach and you don’t falter in your actions. The only time you will lie down is when you are sleeping, every other time you MUST be sitting OR standing. And again, you’ve been doing that for months (or at least one), I seem to ‘forget’ that these are huge milestones because I see you INSIST on doing them every single day but when someone sees you that hasn’t in a while, it’s the talk of the town. I keep being told that you are mastering things well before your ‘scheduled’ time & even though all babies are different, it doesn’t seem to me that you are ‘ahead of the curve’ simply because you INSIST on doing things and there’s no stopping you. Except for the foot in your mouth while I’m feeding you, that I REALLY must put a stop to.
The Big Trick that got you show-ponied around this weekend was your [natural] ability to pick up your Chupie, switch hands and put it directly in your mouth. Daddy & I sat there wondering what the big deal was because, seriously, you’ve been doing that for at least 2 months now. You don’t even bother to look AT the Chupie you just grab it and shove it back in your mouth, or perhaps you’re feeling playful & will twirl it around a few times, switch hands, toss it in the air and catch it behind your back before letting it land in your mouth. I did catch you playing the cutest game ever though with your Chupie the other day in bed – we had the pillow on an incline and you were LITERALLY tossing the Chupie up the pillow, letting it roll back down and CATCHING IT IN YOUR MOUTH! Now, that is a Big Trick, my little Fellow! I think you should join Circe de Soleil and be the Chupie Acrobat, but please let’s not start the “running off with the circus” discussions just yet.
You are a VERY huggy little boy & give Mommy kisses throughout the day – and even with all the baby goop on my face, I still jones for more. You give your smiles away VERY easily but your giggles and the new emerging chuckles of varying pitch and frequency are a little harder to come by. You discovered your belly this past month & jiggle it up and down like a little bowl of Jello & you make everyone laugh who watches you do this. Your feet are in CONSTANT motion, and I mean CONSTANT. Your right foot is in a continuous Figure Eight motion ALL THE TIME, but especially when you are eating in your highchair. When you are nursing your left arm is holding your left leg STRAIGHT up and sometimes I get bashed in the face with it. You love holding onto my necklace that Daddy gave me for our 2nd anniversary & I just finally had to tell him to let me untangle you before he takes you from me because chances are good that you’ve got your little finger inside the circle.
You HATE peas with a passion. I’ve never seen you REFUSE food before. You clamp your little mouth shut & will not allow any particle of pea to pass. I’ve even tried leaving the spoon up against your mouth to see how long it would take for the tongue to dart out and AT LEAST taste a little more – yeah, I ended up with a lap full of peas because you threw the spoon at me. I really wanted to get you to eat something that wasn’t Orange cause you’re looking a little “tanned” these days! Last night Daddy came up and said “EAT YOUR FOOD” in the loud,scary voice that makes you laugh your tukus off & you didn’t let us down – you laughed so hard at him & tracked him around the room that we had to video tape you. Your favorites are still carrots & you love some apples too! Pears have made a nice addition to your morning cereal, and I’m hoping that adds a little somethingsomething to your morning. Consider it my note in your lunch bag to you. Because OH YES you will be getting those.
You are ALL boy. I’m expecting the Poop Jokes any day now. You look to the sky when planes are passing over and watch it soar through the sky. You do not cry when trains pass us at the station, you watch them go by. You play soccer with Daddy every night, although Mommy thinks it’s more like Fooze ball the way he swings you around after the ball…and I would LOVE to organize a Fooze ball game with all our little Freak Babies someday. Maybe at the GORGE while the ‘grown ups’ play Kickball! You have discovered your Penis and I’ve discovered that you don’t cry no matter how hard you tug on it. You splash something FIERCE in the tub – we normally strip down to tshirts and pants, no socks, no sweatshirts to bathe you since we become SOAKED after just a few moments of you being in there. And you laugh at us the entire time. You turn the pages of your books when Mommy reads them to you & smile at each and every page as if you understand already the joys of reading and exploring with books.
The three things that everyone always says about you are – you are all boy, you are very busy & you are the happiest baby they have ever seen. I’d love to take some credit for that but I know that I cannot because I just go with the flow & hope that I give you everything you need & want to help make you the best Little Liam Fellow I possibly can.
You are making strides (no pun intended) on your getting around skills. You know to put your arms up when you want to picked up from your Peek & Play, or if we are just chilling on the couch watching a Baby Einstein and want Mommy to hold you. You LUNGE at us when you want to pull yourself over to us. And you CRAWL all over me & I love every minute of it. You have started putting weight on your knees in your pre-crawl position and rocking on your arms/hands that are now fully extended and keeping your weight up. When you want something you vigorously NOD YOUR HEAD (too cute!) until we figure out what it is you want. For a while now you have known that your Baby Einstein’s come from the laptop and onto the TV and you will switch from watching the TV to watching the laptop and heaven forbid someone blocks your view of the laptop. If your view is EVER blocked you LEAN until you can see around the obstruction. And yes, we have video of you and your cousin, Luccia, doing your best to see around Daddy when he’s purposefully blocking your line of sight.
Again, I can go on and on about your affection for your Monkey & Mystic Kitties. You seriously LIGHT UP every time you see them. And Mystic just loves you to death in her own Mystic Kitty Way – you’ll learn more about that way as you grow up! Monkey Kitty would just love to curl up and nap with you, I’m sure of it. He just loves you to pieces and the feeling is returned to him ten-fold by your smiles & giggles.
Daddy has asked that I not write about certain Mommy Related Things on your blog because he wants to you to read all of this when you are older & it’s my hope too that you can look back & read about how much we love you & cherish every second we spend with you. I would be so privileged if you were to read about your days with us when you are older and I would hope that you could see just much we care beyond words for you. I do all of this for myself & for your family & friends who do not have the privilege to witness your amazingness on a daily basis but also there is a part of me that hopes my writings will exist as a lasting testimony to who you are and how you became that person. And really, I know that I’m just your voice at the moment & that quite soon you will be able to tell your story on your own.
I hope that your version of your story will have all the happy, cheerful, amazing moments in it that mine does. It’s all because of you, my dear little Star of Light and please do not ever forget that.
