milestones

I don't get too into if Crew is doing the right things at the right time. I figure I'll try my best to teach him to roll over, sit up, crawl etc. and the rest is up to him. It doesn't worry me if he doesn't know how to do things that other babies his age already do. It makes him unique! For example, Crew is 7 months old next week and he can't roll over from his back to his tummy. He is a strong baby but he just hasn't done it yet. It actually is a blessing because he LOVES to be swaddled, it puts him right to sleep. If he could roll over from his back to his tummy, we really couldn't be swaddling him. 

Yesterday, May 12, he started actually accepting solid foods! I was such a proud momma. We've been trying solids for about 3 weeks and he has not been into it at all. He would just shut his mouth super tight so we couldn't get the spoon in there. We tried bananas, carrots, avocado, oatmeal, and baby oatmeal. It was actually really cute. The only thing he actually seemed to like one day was peanut butter.

Then yesterday, for some reason, he saw that spoon and opened his mouth so wide. I thought oh he will stop doing that once he realizes its adult food. Nope! He kept eating. Each bite he was oddly excited to eat. That day he enjoyed carrots (actual carrots, not pureed), a strawberry (he just sucked on it a ton), peanut butter, and a ton of baby oatmeal cereal before bed. It was the cutest thing. Just the day before that he refused to eat. I love him. 

He can sit up for quite a while now! May 1st was the first time we realized he could sit up on his own for a couple seconds. Now he can go a long while. It's so much fun seeing how much our little baby can learn in just a couple weeks!

Other cute things: he randomly fell asleep after waking up pretty early playing with toys. He also has kind of turned into a cuddler when he wakes up. Im a little obsessed with it. Each morning he goes in his little jumper and LOVES to jump to music. Its so much fun.


I can't believe he will be 7 months old next week. 

05.13.17