Happy 7 Months to Jack!

 

This is about as good as the photos get because...

...we have a crawler!

Jack started crawling a week before he hit the seven month mark.  He was scooting a bit and definitely rolling around on the ground but hadn't mastered crawling.  One night he was in the middle of the game room playing with his toys while we all played around him.  Jack got up on all fours started rocking and then moved forward a few feet.  We all started clapping so he sat back on his bottom and clapped for himself.  Another first!  It was pretty darn cute.  

 

He doesn't stop moving for very long so most pictures are in some way blurry (don't mind half naked Clara running through the background).  

He still adores his siblings and wants to play near them all the time.  I can tell he misses them when they are at school and is usually very excited when we pick them up. 

Jack loves his toys.  He often dumps out his toy boxes so he can switch from one to the next pretty easily.  He is also getting really good at taking big brother and big sister's toys which is usually frowned upon by them.  

We still hear lots of laughter from this little guy.  He continues to be so happy.  Jack also started babbling quite a bit and I am proud to say one of his first consonant vowel strings was "mamamama." Yeah! 

 

We've had some more firsts this month.  Jack can now sit in high chairs at restaurants.  This was his first time and Jack was so good.  He just looked around at all there was to see.  I could barely get him to focus long enough to eat his lunch!  Big boy!

 

We've had a few unsuccessful firsts this month. One was shoes.  As you can see in the picture he was not into it.  At all.  I guess we will just go with socks for now and try again in a few weeks.

 

We also unsuccessfully tried sippy cups.  Jack thought these were the best chew toys ever.  Goofball.

Jack is sleeping through the night most nights and continues to eat like a champ.  We are almost done with nursing so he has mostly formula now.  

 

The past seven months have been a complete joy with this little guy.  What a gift he is to our family.  Can't wait to watch him grow and learn as the months go by.  Love you sweet Jack!