Aug 20
7 months! How did that happen so fast? Once again, this is a milestone post, and these are my favorite. Here's what's up with Martyn now.
Probably the most exciting thing to me, is that he is full on army crawling/scooting to get around. He's started getting up on all fours and rocking back and forth, with his head down. When he gets frustrated with that, he will kick out his hands and arms, and kind of flop down on his belly...then he can move anywhere he wants. I've had to start flicking his hand and telling him "no no, Martyn don't touch" when he gets to the bottom shelf of the coffee table, and also the dog food bowls and tote. It's working. He doesn't like it, but he gets the point, and stops reaching for them.
He's eating baby food. More and more, and he likes it. So far, he has had Peas, Carrots, Green beans, Squash, Sweet potato, and Apple and Blueberry mixed. He's also had Oatmeal. I've given him tastes of Banana, Avocado, and Watermelon in the mesh feeder, and he really liked all of them. I've also started giving him little sips of water occasionally. He's still breast feeding, but he really likes eating with a spoon, he's learning to open his mouth up nice and wide, when the spoon is approaching.
He watches like a hawk when we're eating, with big wide eyes. He's very interested in food. His little hands are quick, too. We have to watch out for little grabbie hands everywhere we go.
He is babbling like crazy, mixing all different sounds together and experimenting with pitches. He gets really screechy sometimes, especially when he's tired. Just in the last week or so, he's started experimenting with his little tongue. He sticks it out, blows bubbles, flicks it all over the place. It's kind of funny. We've started teaching him baby sign language....he hasn't started signing back yet, but I'm really excited to see him do it. It's going to be awesome!
He's started pulling up on my arms. I don't usually help him, and he can pull himself up from a sitting position to standing. He's sleeping through the night about 10% of the time....but he usually makes it until around 2 or so, and then wants to get up and get in bed and nurse.
He had his first shots, just one shot, and he did better than I did, ha! He only cried for about a minute, then he was fine, and he was fine the next day, you wouldn't even know that he had gotten a shot the day before.
Those are all the main milestones for Martyn at 7 months.
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