7 Months

Emmett is 7 months old today! I don't know where the time has gone. He is hardly our little baby anymore and seems more like a little boy every day.

• Emmett is sitting up on his own now. We still have to spot him so he doesn't topple over but he is able to hold his own weight and sit up ..until he leans towards the next object of interest.
• His first tooth arrived on November 27th. We are still waiting on any others to poke through but it seems it is just a matter of time.
• Emmett is a smiley laughy happy boy almost all of the time. He has a very easy going personality that is showing more and more each day.
• He is now showing a lot of interest in tags of all kinds. When we notice he has taken interest in a new object or toy we have found that we then notice he is chewing or feeling its tag!
• He is currently outgrowing his 9 month clothing! It is hard to keep up with him. His feet are outgrowing size 12-24 month socks now so we have moved up to toddler sizes. We have also moved him up to size 4 diapers. He still fits in size 3 but we needed some more absorbency for night-time. I guess you can say he is healthy and is like to be a very big boy someday.
• We are still working on eating solids. Emmett does not seem particularly interested. He makes sour faces when eating fruits and only shows mild interest in vegetables. We're not pushing the issue. He'll get there someday!
• Emmett still gets up once usually around 3-5am for a snack.. then goes back to bed until 6:30 or 7am. His current bedtime is about 6:15pm since he has recently stopped falling asleep on the way home from daycare (yay!). Now we have time to give him a bath if needed and get his clothes changed before he becomes too tired to function.

We've been told by many to enjoy this "phase" that he is in because before we know it he will be crawling and walking and getting into everything. I'm sure they are right! We're just trying to enjoy each day we have with our 7 month old. :)