7 Months Old!

James is turning 7 months tomorrow! Since tomorrow will be completely crazy-busy, I'm going to blog today. Life is just getting more and more fun with a 7 month old! In the past week, James' personality has exploded. Even his Mother's Day Out teachers have noticed it. He's just started doing this funny thing where he smiles as big as he possibly can and then stops quickly. It makes us laugh so hard! He is IN LOVE with the remote (plunges for it if it's in site), and the other day I caught him doing that huge smile at the remote, like he was SO happy to see it. He started really babbling on Sunday. For a while he's been saying "Gaga" or "Ga" a lot, but now he's saying "Bababbaba" nonstop. He talks the most when he's in his carseat for some reason. He must have an invisible friend back there! Another way he makes me laugh a lot is when he'll sometimes get impatient when he's hungry, doing the whiney fuss, and as soon as I get the food out, he immediately starts laughing excitedly. It cracks me up everytime! James pulled himself up from sitting to standing the other day, but not much else new physically. Just getting stronger and more active every day. When I go get him from naps or in the morning, he's pulled and messed with the bedding and stuffed animals from every side of the crib. I don't know when he does this, but apparently he's having a lot of fun in there! Did I mention how ACTIVE he is now? We can no longer go out to eat by ourselves, because there is no point in standing up in a restaurant taking turns eating. We try to put him in the highchair, but you have to have absolutely nothing in arms reach. His toys go immediately to the ground, and then he wants us. Elizabeth and Bryon watched James for us Saturday night so we could go out to a restaurant with friends, and it was SOOOO nice. I missed James as soon as we dropped him off, but I got over it pretty quickly as we got to enjoy quiet, peaceful dining! James is back to sleeping well again. It took about a week for him to get used to the time change and going out of town. Never have I hated the time change as much as I did this one! James seems to be heading in the direction of crawling. He moves every which direction on the floor but forward, so maybe next month I'll be posting that he got it down! Oh, I almost forgot to mention that he has all 4 of his top teeth now!! He has 6 TEETH TOTAL!! He's going to look so different when they come all the way out! He is starting to imitate us more, and when we wave at him saying "Hi!", he'll wave back once or twice. To wrap this up, when I think of my 7 month old, he's just my happy baby. He's so quick to smile, flirt, laugh, coo, etc., and I just can't imagine life without him!

Did anyone see the Oprah on baby language? I wish I had seen that 7 months ago!! Any of you soon to be mothers out there should go to the Oprah website and find out info on that book. It looks so interesting!