I wish I had a better excuse for combining your letters this week, but in reality, it’s just life. That and you are more and more interactive these days, which makes me want to spend every moment that we’re together actually playing with you. This means those moments when you’re sleeping have been reserved for doing things like laundry, eating, cleaning and showering. You know, those important things that ensure our friends and coworkers actually want to be around us.
(Hey, not every picture can feature a smile!)
Your pediatrician’s office gave us a book before you were born that answers all kinds of different questions about infants and babies. This is so crazed mommies and daddies that get a crash course into parenthood those first few sleep-deprived weeks don’t call the doctor’s office at all hours of the day to ask about the abnormal color of babies’ poop. This book has been a gem and it’s often one of the first resources we consult. (And then we read Baby 411, compare the two for their similarities, differences and Graham-isms, proceed to have long conversations about which is most applicable, and ultimately walk away with no true answer, but comforted by the fact that you’re normal. But enough about our neurotic research tendencies; back to the pediatrician’s book.) At the very back of the book, they publish milestones you are to be hitting on a monthly basis. We get so excited when you demonstrate one of those milestones a month or two ahead of time. And then we tend to shy away from those that you’re not quite up to par with yet (i.e. when you were to be rolling over at 3 months. Or 4 months.).
However, this month you nailed your 7-month milestones to the point that if grades were given, you’d earn a 100%. One of which is banging your toys. I think you’re trying to get extra credit on this one by finding the loudest possible toy that you can bang against the hardest possible surface. And, to borrow a word from Charlie Sheen for a pop culture reference that you’ll be clueless about, you’re definitely “winning” with your combination of your stackable bath cups against the ceramic bath tub. You still love taking baths, but baths have taken on a whole new meaning (and decibel level) for mommy and daddy with your discovery of banging.
One of my favorite new tricks of yours isn’t in any book. Again, we have enjoyed such nice weather the past few weeks that every day we do something outside together. And over the past few weeks you’ve started to notice birds. You hear them first, and look straight up into the sky to locate where they are. If you can find them in your range of sight, you follow them as they soar through the skies. Once you can no longer see them, you hold your gaze there, wondering if they might come back. While it sounds so simple, it’s one of my favorite things to watch you do because it involves so many different thoughts. It’s like I can see your synapses firing away as you process this new discovery.
You still haven’t met a food you didn’t like, and I told your Grahamma it’s because of my good cooking. Over the last two weeks you’ve tried pears, green beans and zucchini, all of which you’ve gobbled right up. I’ve enjoyed making your baby foods from scratch and watching you as you taste the new things that I created. Hopefully you’ll still like such a variety of foods as you grow up.
Over the last month or so, when holding you, you will reach toward our face with a wide open mouth and give a “kiss” on our cheeks. For awhile, I just thought you were trying to get my face in your mouth, since you put everything you come across in your mouth. It took me awhile to realize this was actually a sign of affection and you often give your “kisses” after mommy and daddy kiss your cheeks. We love the wet, slobbery mess you leave behind.
Love,
Mommy
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