7 Months Old!

Whoops, I forgot to write Remy’s 7 month blog!!  Remy turned 7 months last Thursday.  It’s amazing how many things change and how much he learns in just one month!  Remy is now eating a lot more variety.  He still loves his sweet potatoes and bananas and now he eats carrots, oatmeal, pears, avocados and puffs (we still need to try lots more).  I feel like we’ve tried more but I can’t remember what atm.  He still hates applesauce and green beans.  We introduced the puffs a few days ago and he loves them.  The first day he didn’t understand that he needed to pick them up and put them in his mouth – he thought we would do all the work for him.  Now he can pick them up and stick them right in his mouth!  Ever since he learned that trick you can tell he’s been wanting to feed himself his own breakfast and supper.  I think we’ll start chopping up cooked fruits and veggies real small and letting him feed himself.  I think he’d really prefer that now.  But we have a freezer full of pureed food for him to eat first!

Now that Remy sits up on his own he prefers to sit by himself.  He isn’t fond of being on his back or belly anymore and he’d rather sit than be in his exosaucer.  His swing is put away – he hasn’t used that thing in months and he’ll tolerate his bouncer when he’s downstairs with Phil but I don’t think he likes that anymore either.  He doesn’t like to sit back.  He wants to sit up so he can play and see what’s going on.  He’s not a “baby” anymore!  *Tear*  He also likes the bigger “more fun” toys but he sometimes gets frustrated with them.  He’s also at the stage where he wants to play with a certain toy and if it gets away from him he gets pissed.  He also gets pissed if he sees my phone or something else he can’t have.  You can no longer just put a different toy in front of him for him to forget about it!  He knows you hid the “thing he can’t have” and he still wants it.  So it’s best to just keep those items out of his eye sight for now.  Haha.

Remy is also getting really good at copying what we do.  If I make a funny face or stick my tongue out he tries to copy.  I’ve also taught him how to clap his hands.  It’s the cutest thing!  No crawling yet (thank god, I’m not ready).

I went through his clothes again this weekend to put more away that no longer fit.  Now that we’re doing cloth diapers the pants and onsies that barely fit him are now definitely not fitting.  Cloth diapers makes his toosh bigger so he needed to go up a size.  I got all weepy looking at his newborn clothes.  I should duck tape that bin shut and not be allowed to go through it again until the next baby comes along…  So now he’s mostly in 9 month and some 12 month.

It was nice again this last weekend so we went on a few walks, sat on the deck a lot and went to Hudson and took his daddy out for lunch.  We also ordered a convertible car seat because he’s bursting out of his infant one and I figured since he’s sitting up on his own now it’s time to move him up.  We got it in the mail on Friday and it has a little bit of purple in it.  Huge bummer…. I went back and looked at the pictures online and I see no purple from the pics!  I was irked.  So, it’s not entirely girly but too much for my taste and it would bother me so we decided to return it.  So after we took Phil out for lunch Rem and I headed to Babies R Us and returned it.  We’ll have his new one here soon.  I can’t wait to stop hauling him around in his infant seat!

Next weekend is Mother’s Day and I can’t wait to spend the day with my family!  I’m hoping the weather will be nice because I want to take Remy to the zoo.  If the weather sucks we’ll probably go to the MOA just to get out of the house and do something fun. 

Remy is generally in a very good mood but he's still cute when he's crabby.  I told him that if he turns his mood around and stops being a crab butt I wouldn't post this picture of him.  Obviously he stayed cranky.  :)