7 months old already!
Posted by Missy Roberts at 4:26 PM About Jake
Seven months have FLOWN by. Our little guy is getting bigger and stronger every day. He is sitting up, smiles all the time and loves to talk. We have major conversations with him now, yet we have no idea what we are talking about:). He is eating a lot more these days. I am pretty much done nursing him. He only nurses when he wakes up early in the morning (between 4 and 5am), other than that he is on formula. In some ways it's sad, but I also know that he is getting enough food now. I know I wasn't giving him enough. The weaning process was a breeze because I was already not producing a lot. He loves to eat his food. He has cereal (rice or oatmeal) and fruit in the morning, veggies (and sometimes fruit) for lunch and another veggie for dinner along with his bottles of formula. Whenever daddy feeds him he gobbles up his food quickly. I think it's because daddy gives him "daddy spoonfuls" whereas I tend to put less food on the spoon. It's so funny how different we are when we care for him. We change his diaper in different ways. Of course I think the way I do it is the best way and he thinks the way he does it is the best way. Either way, Jacob is cared for very well and loved very much by both of us. Bill is still better at giving him a bottle. He knows how to hold him just right so that he drinks up. With me on the other hand, Jacob likes to look around and gets easily distracted. I don't know what I'm doing, but it still takes me longer to give him a bottle. Jacob is napping more consistently during the day and for longer periods of time. He will ususally sleep for 1 hour to 1 1/2 hours in the morning about a couple hours after he wakes up. Then he'll take an afternoon nap at about 2 or so for about an hour and sometimes he take a quick snooze at about 5pm. It is really nice when he naps during the day for several reasons, one, it gives me time to get stuff done, but also because he tends to sleep a little better at night. I remember the days when he would only nap for 10-20 minutes at a time. I thought I would never be able to get anything done during the day. He is spitting up a lot less lately (but as I was thinking about writing about that and holding him at the same time, he spit up on me...too funny, but it was just a little bit, so no big deal). Jacob loves to sit on the floor and play with his blocks and his stuffed baseball. His favorite thing to look at is his fan in his room. He just stares at the blades going round and round.
This weekend we were able to spend a lot of time with Auntie Alana and cousin Jeanne. They were at our house Saturday night - Monday. We had lots of fun with them. Jacob had TONS of fun dancing with them. Auntie Alana taught him how to do the cabbage patch, they looked so cute dancing together. On Monday afternoon the girls babysat Jacob for a few hours while mommy had to take Nani to the doctors. Apparently he was a pretty good boy for them. He did give his Auntie a nice poopy diaper to clean up. Jeanne put him down for his naps and sang to him. How cute. He did give them a hard time with the bottle, but he had to be a little bad for them, right? We also got to see Auntie Val, Danielle and Scotty on Sunday night. We all went out to dinner together and that was a lot of fun.
Today we saw Jeanne and Danielle because we took them a surf board so they can go surfing at the beach today. Jacob treated them to Coffee Bean and was very interested in mommy's drink and almost tried drinking out of the straw. He was also very interested in the frozen loaf of bread daddy got out of the freezer this morning. He was holding it over his head like he was a strong man.
Well, it's time to go play with Jacob. So until next time...mommy and daddy love you!