Our littlest little turned 7 months last week. With every day, I'm seeing his personality come out more and more. He is such a joyful baby, constantly laughing, smiling and squealing. He does his little army crawl to get anywhere he wants to go, right now he is really exploring everywhere that he can get to. It's been an adjustment for the older boys because Jacob is beginning to want to touch their toys, and play with them. I've had to switch toys around since he puts everything in his mouth and have to explain most days that the toys in the living room are to share, Jacob is allowed to play with all the toys, not just the baby toys. Often Judah likes to take the toys and replace it with a baby toy so at least he's not completely not wanting to share. We've also been working on food and sippy cups, which is really slow going. He is not a fan of food and looks at me every time like I've betrayed him when I put something in his mouth. I pretty much have to force feed him almost everything we've tried. Hopefully soon he will begin to like food. Sleep is still something we don't get much of around here, even on the nights he sleeps well, we're almost always woken up around 5 or even before by our sweet second child. If he's left in his room, he enjoys waking up the entire house, not just us, so we try and quickly get him out of his room before he wakes his brothers. It's become common for me to sleep on the couch for an hour or so while he watches Netflix just to get a few extra minutes of sleep before the day starts. I keep thinking, the older he gets, this will stop happening, but he's been doing it off and on about a year, so he may just be our early riser. But I am looking forward to him being old enough to understand he can't wake everyone else up, and maybe he can read or play quietly, but I think it will be a while before we get there.
We've really enjoyed the warmer weather this past month as well. Winter used to be my favorite season. I loved the hats and scarves and sweaters, reading by the fire with hot chocolate and playing in the snow. Winter is very different when you have 3 boys because it usually means lots of days in doors. The warmer sunshine has done our souls good. The boys, even Jacob, could spend hours outside and the last several weeks, we have done a lot of that. They listen better when they've had outside time, they are calmer when I need them to be calm and they go to sleep much better. So I am loving these days, loving watching them explore their world, learn how to ride their tricycles, draw silly pictures with chalk, fight each other with sticks (#boymomlife) and pick flowers to bring to me. I love that we've moved to a place where they have that chance, where we can play not fenced in but they can roam and have space to be free for a little while. And I am looking forward to watching how Jacob will fit in to all their play in the next few months as he starts to be mobile. When we're out now, he wants to be down playing with them, so it will be fun to watch.
His first time in the high chair. He was not a fan of the food.
Curtis loves playing with Jacob at dinner, entertaining him for me when he's fussy.
Judah's poor little eye has had issues, first spinning himself into a window sill, then catching Curtis' knee. It's finally starting to get better after about 2 weeks.
He was definitely done with pictures
