7 Months Old

Well, I am a couple weeks late on actually typing up this post since Cade actually turned 7 months old on November 5. I did manage to get his pictures taken on his actual birthday and also to jot down on paper a few things that he was doing at the beginning of the month.

I can't believe how fast time is going and how quickly so many of Cade's baby characteristics are disappearing! I LOVE this age right now and while I am looking forward to all that is still to come I also wish that I could bottle Cade up right now and keep him like this forever!!!

Here are a few things about Cade from this month:

- He is almost crawling. He will push up on his hands and knees and rock back and forth. He can crawl a couple of times before falling and going back into the army crawl scoot that he does.
- He is starting to pull up on us and on pieces of furniture. We will be lowering his bed real soon!
- He is eating every 5 hours or so during the day and will go 8 hours at night. I am still breastfeeding and love that special time that I have with Cade. We are giving stage 1 foods and starting stage 2 foods. Cade really likes the orange veggies and LOVES all the fruits.
- He is improving his pincher grasp and is able to pick up his puff snacks but not quite able to transfer them to his mouth.
- He has not been sleeping very well recently and has started waking up around midnight every night. I usually end up rocking and sleeping with him in the recliner most nights for a couple of hours and sometimes even going to the guest room to sleep with him- a big NO NO for us since we are totally against bed sharing!
- He is wearing size 2 diapers during the day and size 3 diapers at night. He mostly is wearing 6-9 month clothes but sometimes has to have a 12 month shirt or onsie in order to get it over his head!
- He loves being outside and gets so excited and starts bouncing every time that we open the door up!
- He is enjoying playing on his own more and will entertain himself for 30-45 minutes at a time with his trucks and toys.
- He enjoys playing in the bouncy and babbles to himself the whole time he is playing.
- He LOVES music and has started to dance (bounce up and down) when anyone starts singing during a cartoon!

We love you so much sweet boy and look forward to watching you grow and change even more over this next month!

Chair pictures are becoming much more difficult!

standing up in his bed- definitely time for it to be lowered!