Seven Months {Rory}

Rory is seven months old today! He weighs 21.9 pounds and measures about 28 inches long.

Here’s what I want to remember about this past month:

• He is still taking four 6-7 ounce bottles a day. He eats four stage 2 foods each day. He’s tried just about all of the stage 2 offerings but seems to prefer the veggie/meat options instead of the fruits. He is off of the oatmeal cereal completely, but we’ve added in a helping of yogurt once a day.
• He’s only taking two naps a day (thanks to us having to pick Riley up from school in the afternoons), but he usually naps for at least 45 minutes.
• He is in his bed for the night by 6pm and he wakes up for the day around 5:30am. Like clockwork.
• He’s started blowing raspberries, and not only at mealtimes. He’ll often do it when he’s bored, and it’s so funny to watch.
• He’s wearing clothes ranging in size from 9-12 months. He’s in a size 3 diaper.
• He had a bad case of diarrhea mid-month, which resulted in really bad diaper rash for awhile. He also had a little cold with a runny nose and a cough.
• He’s really starting to suck on his fingers, so I think he’s teething big time. No teeth yet, though.
• His hands are often in constant motion: opening and closing his fingers, waving his arms around, and getting a good grip on anything within his reach.
• He pulls his paci out of his mouth often but he can work it back in.
• He babbles all day long with combinations of ah, ma, ba, da, ga, and wa.
• He’s more or less sitting up on his own. (More on this tomorrow!) He is also scooting himself around a bit on his belly, but only backwards.
• He is such a happy boy. He smiles all the time.
• Sprout hasn’t really stuck as well as Bean did, but he does have a few nicknames. I call him “man” and “sweetness” and Nola started calling him “99/40” after his last checkup.

Seven months old!

  

Also, this just happens to be the 1000th post on this little blog of mine since I started it back in the fall of 2008. Thanks so much for following along. It means the world to me.