Grayson is 7 months!

Happy 7 months old, Baby Grayson! We have lots of new developments - I'm sure I've missed some but here are most of them:

• Grayson is crawling! I've blogged about this but he gets better at it every day. Even on the hardwoods, which are pretty slippery.
• He is sitting up on his own! Finally.
• Can pull up to his knees
• In the nursery, we had to remove his mobile and we are mounting the camera from the monitor since he can pull up and his sole mission in his crib is to pull them down.
• Loving a thrill now more than ever - pretend falling in our arms, doing the wheelbarrow off the sofa, hanging upside down - I'm really seeing the crazy boy I'm going to have when he's mobile. Do I still really want to have ALL boys?!
• Loves dancing in your arms. BIG SMILES. Especially during fast turns and the dip ;-)
• Making raspberry sounds morning, noon and night! It's so cute! He is so content and doesn't even want to catch his breath between them...and just smiles while he does it. Adorbs.
• LOVES Brinkley! (see videos below)
• New foods: oatmeal, apples, pears, carrots. Next up - meats. Gross. I'm in no hurry to introduce these Pureed meat - mmmmm. :/
• Wearing 12 month clothes. Need to go to 18 months on the footed PJs
• Officially in size 4 diapers
• Regularly says DaDaDaDaDa but still doesn't realize what it means. However, Beau puffs up with pride EVERY. TIME. [rolling my eyes!]
• We have a routine! Like clockwork - sleeping 7:30pm to 7:30am, 3 naps a day, Happy Baby -  HAPPY MAMA! Now that it's set, it will no doubt change with teething
• We have graduated from the Hand Harmonica and are now interested in teething on your chin. And it hurts! But alas, still EVERYTHING goes in the mouth. Shoes, the dogs, furniture, restaurant tables...
• ALL about the pacifier. It calms him almost every time and at this rate, he can keep it until he's 18 if it still works. I no longer judge when I see 4 year olds with a pacifier in their mouth.
• We are so blessed that he is just so happy. We get stopped in public just about everywhere we go with people telling us how HAPPY he is. He smiles so big at everyone and I love every minute of it :)

Weight: 20lbs, 2oz (75%)
Height: 28.5 inches (80%)
Head: 18 inches (80%)


Here are a couple of videos we took last night that just show him loving on Brinkley, saying some Dadas and how much this little boy looks just like hid Dada ;-)





He's standing flat-footed lately. I don't know if that means anything but he has been all about the tippy-toes until the past couple of days...