Lucky Number 7!!

You've survived more than half a year baby! Believe it or not, that IS something to celebrate in mommy's eyes. We've had our challenges this month, that is for certain and it seems that they're not over just because you've hit that special number.

Although you started your seventh month of life fantastically; You were sleeping through the night, simply pleasant during the day and it looked like things were really starting to get into the groove of things between mommy and you. Then, like a horrible horror movie plot, your bottom two teeth started to rear their ugly (secretly adorable) little heads >_<; At first it seemed like you didn't even notice them really. Sure, you were drooling so much that a bib became a permanent fixure and we really had to watch anything withint your arm span for fear of it being shoved into your perfect little mouth, but overall you were still a delight night and day.

Then mommy and daddy went on their little Babymoon to Duluth and you were knocked off your sleeping schedule a bit. Normally, I think you would have taken it in stride, but either the sleeping interference made you wake up to the fact that you were in pain or it was a coincidence that you chose that moment to become a little shi-ummm....monster because the night we got home you were awake and screaming you head off like someone had just killed Mr. Penguin- I'd like to point out that he's right there by your shoulder every night.

So the moral of the story is, that you have two shiny new teeth halfway through your gums and you're awake and crying almost every hour- and mommy's right there with you....crying.... So here's where you readers can input your advice and experience...please...for the LOVE!! Is he in pain still from teething though the teeth have already cut through the gums? We're giving him 1.5 ml of children's Tylenol but he's still crying....what do you all out there advise us to do next?

Ok, back to the more positive growth you've had.... You are now a ROLLING MACHINE! You are gracefully rolling from your stomach to your back (almost so well that mommy's considering putting you on your tummy for bed) and you are thisclose to rolling from your back to your stomach. In fact, if I just support your back you can throw that leg around and get enough momentum to roll that gut over!


And this wasn't even your BEST attempt!

You're also semi-sitting by yourself. You're cool if you're leaning forward almost folded in half but the moment something catches your fancy off to the side and you sway that 97th percentile head, you start to fall. You're definitely getting there though and I have no doubt that you'll be a pro by the end of the month!

It's also so fun to put a toy just out of your reach. You can tell that you reaaaaaally want it and sometimes you can semi-crawl/roll/scooch/rake your hands out enough that you can finally get to it (seriously, you do a really funny combination of all of these things.) It's definitely an improvement to only being able to spin in a circle on your tum tum!!

So you ARE developing despite mommy's constant worry that you're lagging and mommy loves to hear your shouts of encouragement (in the form of babbling, raspberries, and what looks to be an actual cheer when you grab both of your feet and kick them up) and though she's sad that you renigged on the deal to get dentures later in life rather than grow teeth, your smile can still light up the room and life the fear in mommy's heart every time (even in the middle of the night when you should be sleeping.) Keep growing young grasshopper and we'll keep doing our best to get you to where you need to go! Love, mommy (and daddy)