7 months

the 'keeper'

The attempts - huh?

Charlie just gets busier and busier every day.  He babbles and coos, but no inkling of actual words.  I can't tell if he knows his name or is just responding to our voices.  He's eating baby food twice a day.  Sweet potatoes are his favorite.  That's where I hide things like lentils and cauliflower.  He'll eat anything mixed with sweet potatoes.  He's still up once a night to feed.  I feel like I'll never get a full nights sleep ever again.  Even when Matt gets up to do the feeding, it still wakes me up and I usually can't sleep until Matt is back in bed.  Then he's usually up at 4 or 5, but if I get up and change his diaper, he usually will go right back down until I get him up at 7:15 to head to daycare.  Weekends, he will sleep until about 8 - that's sleeping in for him. 

We've got him going down between 7:30 and 8:00 at night.  It's a rare treat when he goes straight down.  Usually he fusses a bit, spits out his pacifier and we have to go in and re-plug a couple of times.   Now that he is free to move around, he sleeps on his belly.  No matter which way I lay him down, next time I'm in there, he's on his belly.  I know back is best, but I don't blame him, I'm a tummy sleeper too.

He's trying so hard to crawl.  As you can see in earlier posts, he just goes backwards as of right now.  Usually cries a little.  It's frustrating to try to get your toys and actually moving farther away from them.  It's so nice that he's at an age that he can sit up without any support and I can give him toys to occupy him.  He likes his foam blocks & his peacock- those are probably his two favorite. 

Day care is going well.  I'm so comfortable with Lauren.  It's so nice to leave him somewhere you know he's loved every day.  And she's such a good mommy- she has very good instincts.  I wonder how many times she rolls her eyes at my parenting mis-steps.  I am not the fish-to-water mother that she is. 

Well, that's the updates for now.  More to come...

Crawling backwards



Frustrated



Scooted under the bench

Let's try again

Grabbing his feet

Is this the house?????

3401 E Calhoun Blvd Minneapolis, MN

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When I used to go visit my grandmother she told me about the house her father built.  I talked it about on Photos from Catherine I had google mapped it, but all that came up were woods.  I had given up the idea that the house still stood.  Matt did a little exploring and zoomed in on a different area and I think we found it!  I couldn't believe what I was seeing- this had to be the same house! I literally got chills.  I had resigned myself to the fact that the house didn't exist.  This is the house, isn't it?  The window is in the same location, and the dormer is the same.  They've obviously added on to it, but it is just amazing it still stands.  I plan on writing the house and seeing if they would let me at least come see the outside.  Pray they are nice people!

Bridgette taking pictures of Charlie

This was right before bathtime.  He was a little stinky, a lot boogery and covered in drool- as always.

In need of a kleenex

I think I've changed his sheets every day this week

Laid Charlie down to bed tonight-  he had been down for like 3 minutes when he started crying.

Matt went in to get him back down and walked into what you see here

Yep, that's carrot baby food on his face from 3 hours ago.  He rolled to his tummy, threw up and then set his face in it.
It's been like this all week.  The amount of bodily fluids that can come out of something so small astounds me. 
Parenting is so glamorous

Charlie being Charlie

Splish Splash

Hangin in the highchair

Visualize Whirled Peas

Crawling....kinda.....backwards......

No Cheifs fan here

Just not sure if I'm ready to subject him to the heartache of being a Vikes fan though

Charlie 6 month check up

I'm a little late on this, but Charlie had his 6 month check up- here are his stats.  Not as complete as the other ones, but I changed from a pediatrician to a family practitioner.  Best decision I've ever made.

Height - 26.5" - 50th percentile
Weight - 19 lbs 14.5 oz - 75th percentile

Charlie 6 month pictures