Seven Months (and 16 days again)

I can hardly believe we are already so far into the month of May. Andrew continues to grow and time continues to fly by! It's truly amazing watching him discover the world around him, now that he's sitting independently, rolling around and inching across the floor (though not truly crawling, yet). Andrew's teacher is often commenting that he'll be crawling before the older babies in the room and jokes that he'll need to teach the others.

He is really a happy guy and has a great giggle that I love to jumpstart. He's starting to grab painfully tightly to my neck and eagerly offers open-mouth kisses on my cheeks. Of course, anything and everything takes a turn in his mouth, whether appropriate to that purpose or not.

After another routine check up with Dr. Chrissie, Andrew's size is till on par with Nathan's at this age. Andrew weighed 21 pounds 12 ounces (+95th percentile) and measured 27 inches long (75th percentile). He is eating more and more these days so a growth spurt might be coming our way. Though he initially rejected peas, he's since grown accustomed to those and hasn't rejected anything else in puree form. I've started to introduce foods from my plate, or small baby snacks but he hasn't mastered chewing yet and ends up choking his way through it. P.S. No teeth yet to aid in chewing.

He's transitioning to a morning nap and afternoon nap, both of which are thankfully longer than the 45 minutes he was napping previously. Andrew still wakes 2-3 times each night, but it takes very little time to coax him back to sleep.

Just four weeks until summer vacation and busy days until that moment. We look forward to spending more time with both our growing boys and seeing many of you!

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