Lucas is 7 months

My Lil Boy is 7 months old now! Most months I get all sad and freaked out about how fast time is going...but this milestone was much more relaxing. Luke is growing more and more everyday. My once underweight baby is now the perfect size! He is 7 months and wearing 9-12 month clothes. I got scared and called the doctor about this...wondering if he was eating too much?...but the doctor insisted that this was completely natural in males especially. He said it was a great sign that he going forward and not backwards! YAY! We spent Luke's 7 month day at the house as our lil family! Luke crawled around everywhere and Justin and I played hide-n-seek with him! (we hide and call his name and he finds us!) The sunshine was out briefly today so we went outside and he played in his swing for awhile! It was a much needed peaceful and relaxing day for our family. Justins parents came down in the evening to do some Christmas shopping so we ate at Joe's Crab Shack! Lucas was tooo silly...just giggling and smiling! He is so fun to be around...he really has a great personality and I fall in love with it more and more everyday! Later we went to Best Buy...and Justin and I picked out our new TV we want to get eachother for Christmas and helped his parents load/unload their new TV! Then we had to do a lil shopping at Target too! It was crazy shopping though..people were everywhere and it was busy everywhere that we went! But overall it was a special day because our son hit another important milestone in his life! Also, Luke is getting realllly close to talking and Justin and I love it! He is starting to sound out words...and can say things like "hey" and "hi". He is not for sure what those words mean yet and is not consistant at saying them- but he can repeat them back to you. Also if we day "Dadda" he will look right at Justin. And he will do the same with me if we say "Mama"! It is amazing when you can see your child learning and growing and putting things together.

Learning New Things

Luke has really been learning new things at a rapid pace lately it seems. I love to challenge him and read different things on how to keep your baby active and interested during the day. Today I read that at 7 months your baby will begin to like pots and pans. They will learn that they can make noise with different objects. And also they like utensils! So...I found a lil pot for him in the cabinet and gave him a big plastic spoon! Once he got past the initial part of wanting to eat the spoon he realized he could hit the pot and it would make noise! Needless to say...it was free entertainment! He went to town making his own lil music! And he was occupied for 2 hours straight! Luke loves for Justin to play the guitar..and he absolutely loves music on the radio and tv. It was so fun to watch him be able to make that music this time! Justin is very talented with music and can play lots of instruments and can really sing. (Def something that attracted me in the very beginning!) I have really been hoping on the inside that Lucas would understand music and be able to play- because i cannot but I love music and always have wished i knew it like Justin does. Watching him today and playing music with him was something that will be stored in my best memory folder in my mind forever =)!

Also, when I was grocery shopping yesterday i found a new cereal that I had never gotten for Luke. It was the pear oatmeal with cinnamon. OMG..he loved that! Luke loves all food...he is really easy to please and he loves to eat! Luke has only cried over 2 foods tho...like cried bc i could not feed him fast enough...and this oatmeal was one of them- the other was sweetpotatoes and turkey lol. He ate the entire lil jar for breakfast. He loved it!!!!

Silly Baby

Luke is getting funnier and funnier everyday! I find myself laughing at him all the time during the day! He loves to make me and Justin laugh too! When we laugh...it makes him laugh even harder! He is into everything in this house. I cannot leave a room for a single second because he will be into something he is not supposed to be into. For instance- shoes. He has a new habit of wanting to find shoes and chew on them lol. Mostly he crawls straight for the Christmas Tree! I had to put his presents that were under the tree on a chair because he goes right for them and wants to tear the paper off. But since he started crawling he is napping a lot longer during the day and eating a whole bunch more too. I think he is burning a lot of calories and looking to replace them????

Luke does have a new favorite toy though! His Aunt Tamara bought him a Winnie the Pooh that crawls on the floor and sings. OMG...he LOVES it so much! They crawl together on the floor and Luke gets soooo excited =) about it!