7 months

mr. makai turned 7 months on my birthday

weird to think he is past 6 months

he is doing all the typical 6 months things

sitting up, eating solids, trying to crawl...

i don't know why but i love this picture.

but then it also reminds me of the fat kid in harry potter

the mean one...not sure of his name.

my new favorite picture of makai.

his hair looks like this for no more than 15 minutes

then his hair starts to dry and it poofs way up.

yes he is standing....on his own....on a chair

 sometimes he just won't bend to sit. he's stubborn.

so i let him stand, don't worry i was right there

to watch him face plant it catch him if he fell

he now has three teeth.

all on the bottom and a 4th one is brewing.

you can see it, but it has yet to emerge.

he loves peas, well any vegetable

he will eat anything really

but thinks all fruits are tart and makes a silly face.

if he doesn't like it, he will half spit it out

if he loves it, he begs for more with his mouth open

he acts like the typical starving 15 year old :)

we've turned a corner...sort of.... with his sleeping issues

now we have new sleeping issues :)

he usually has oatmeal and food around 5:30-6

then he takes a bath, then plays until about 7

7:15 if i can buy more time.

then he nurses and goes to bed for the night

he is usually in bed by 7:15-7:30 and sleeps until 12:30

like on the dot.

then from 12:30-3:30 he goes from sleeping a little bit then wakes up and cries

basically in 20 minute increments. 

a couple things happen at 3:30

he either decides to give up and passes out, he gets brought into our bed

or he is put in the swing to sleep the rest of the night.

i've tried every scenario and am at the point of not going in to replace the binkie

when he wakes up at 12:30

his dr. has ok'd that he is old enough and weighs enough

that he doesn't need a night time feeding

i have even tried feeding him at 12:30. doesn't work for a couple of reasons

he nurses horribly because he falls asleep a couple minutes in

and once back in bed after being asleep he will wake up.

when he does cry, his cry is a mad one.

he stops crying once he hears me in the night before I even enter his room. 

i replace his binkie then he screams and cries until i come back.

it's exhausting really. 

i'm failing miserably trying to go to bed at 9

so i can at least sleep a couple hours at a time.

other than his sleeping "issues" he is the perfect baby

he rarely cries and if he does, he has a reason

just today, two people i see once a week

said today was the first day they had ever heard him fuss before

and that was because i stopped 'jumping' him up and down, my arms were tired.

this face resulted in me forcing him to sit, bend at the waist.

he hates being forced to do anything.

he has a sweet spot as i call it, to sleep

and when i force him to his side when being difficult

he will force his arm back, usually hitting himself in the head. ha!

he is so close to crawling.

he rarely sits up anymore as he always is lunging to get something

that is usually out of his reach but thinks he can get it

he rolls all over the living room

and if he is somewhere else when i leave the room

i will come back and when i 'find' him, he will smile real big

and sometimes even laugh...he must think he is funny.

he also prefers to stand. he tries so hard to stand against things

if given the right support he pull himself up.