First tooth!

It's official...Logan is getting his first tooth!  Kiley came over today and I pulled Logan's paci out of his mouth so he could smile at her. Usually he is fine without a paci & doesn't care if he has one or not, but today he immediately started crying for his paci. Kiley and I thought that it might be a sign of teething...plus his cheeks were pink and he had been a little fussy today. I checked and I could feel a tiny tooth popping through on the bottom left side! It took a while, since he likes to stick his tongue out, but I managed to get his tongue out of the way to see the tiny white spec of a tooth starting to pop through! He is 6 days short of 8 months old.

"That's where it hurts mom!"

Reading the Bible with Daddy

Logan's Pampa gave him his first children's Bible for Christmas. The other night, I heard Jacob reading the Bible to Logan in his room. I slipped in there to take a few pictures because it was so sweet. My heart melts during times like this and I feel so blessed.

 

7 Months Old

Age: Seven months
Weight: 19 lbs 12.8 oz (19.8 lbs)
Height: About 27" *measured at home while he was squirming :-)
Head: ?
Eye Color: Blue with a hazel to greenish ring around the center that is leaking into his eyes.  Mostly they are blue and beautiful.
Hair: His hair is long on the top and is growing out on the sides.  It is brown and feather soft. 
Clothes: He is wearing 6-9 months in most clothes.
Diapers: He is in size 3 diapers.
Milestones: He now sits without support & will play with toys while sitting by himself. He is very sturdy and perfectly content to sit in the middle of the room with toys. He seems so grown up when he does this! He tries really hard to crawl but he mostly just scoots backwards and rolls from his tummy to his back to get across the room. He isn't a babbler...but he does make a squealing noise and a spitting "b" noise like he is straining to babble but not opening his mouth to let the sound out. He has started reaching up to me when he wants me to pick him up.  He still keeps his elbows bent  when he does this though. I have to keep things I don't want him to grab out of his reach...like my dinner plate...or he will yank them on to the floor.  I learned this the hard way! 
Sleeping: He has finally started sleeping 10 or 11 hours most nights. The sleep regression that started at about 4 1/2 months seems to have finally ended!  YAY!! He usually takes two naps a day each for at least an hour.  His afternoon nap is sometimes 2 or 2 1/2 hours. I've found that the better he naps during the day, the better he sleeps at night.  
Eating: He is still primarily on breast milk. He eats anywhere between 3 and 5 oz. Usually 3 1/2 or 4 oz. He has one meal of baby food each evening & usually gets a little rice cereal mixed into a bottle of breast milk at night before bed. He eats in his highchair and will sit at the table with Jacob and I while we eat dinner. He has tried almost all of the stage 1 baby foods except prunes.  His favorite is sweet potatoes by far. His least favorite is peas. He spit them out and cried the first time he ate them, but he ate them with only a few grimaces the second time he tried them. 
Activities: Logan is such a sweet and happy little guy. I can take him anywhere and he is usually happy and doesn't make a peep. He isn't a car sleeper unless he's in the car during his nap time. He will sleep in his stroller in a store if I'm there during his nap time...but usually he just looks around quietly while I stroll him. He LOVES being sang to and read to. He loves really soft stuffed animals to hold on to. He will always smile to the ABC song and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. He is a hair yanker. If he can reach any hair...even Daddy's chest hair...he will latch on and yank.  He has pulled out fist fulls of my hair! He also likes to play with his tongue.  He twists it around and sticks it out & makes the cutest faces. He is still ridiculously ticklish. He loves playing "Where's Dada" with Jacob. He will hide and pop up and Logan will jump and give a huge smile.