7 months old

Evan is growing so fast! He was into size 9 months clothes last month, and now he's almost out of them.

We started solids this month, and he's loving it! We started with rice cereal, and then moved to pureed vegetables. And we just started with fruits, which he enjoys a lot since he's feeding himself a la Baby Led Weaning. I'm breaking the "rules" though, because we still do pureed vegetables for dinner, and oatmeal with lunch. Oh well, rules are meant to be broken, right?

He's had: sweet potatoes, carrots, peas, squash, vegetable medley, rice cereal, oatmeal, bananas, avocado (which he hated, much to my dismay), cantaloupe, strawberry, plum, and mango. He's having organic whole milk mixed in with his cereal, and a whole lot of breast milk!

He can sit for as long as he wants, no problem. Big fat check on that one!

He has started to figure out crawling. He's using his knees, and he's using his arms (one under him, one reaching out) to grab whatever he wants that's out of reach. He's also doing the backwards "crawling". I think next month he'll be fully mobile. ::scary::

Oh, this is a big one. He says "mama"! Ok, so sometimes he says "mamamamamama", but the point is that he seems to say it to call me. We think he really knows I'm mama :D (yes, I have a big smiley face!)

He's very talkative. His grandparents sent him story books with their voices recorded, and he talks back to the book.

He likes grabbing everything, and putting it in his mouth. That includes, but is not limited to, mom's hair, dad's hair, dog hair (from the carpet), napkins, computers, remotes... anything he can reach, really. We usually distract him with a toy before he reaches new objects, though.

He has a big quilt where we lay him down to play. But he loves the carpet, he always finds his way to the carpet. And to the dog hair, which gives mommy a frowny face. It'll be nightmare when he starts crawling...

He's been in a convertible car seat since about 3 weeks ago. Yes, he's that big. And he loves it.

Sleep... no changes there. Still wakes up 3 times per night, but we're thinking of ways to work on that.

He's still cute as can be. We expect no changes there :)