7 Months Old

Somehow, behind my back, Ivan got to be 7 months old. Crazy. He's growing up so fast. I remember sitting around watching and waiting for Linc to hit every little milestone and it took forever. But somehow, now that I have two of them to chase around, Ivan's milestones seem to be sneaking up on me.

Point in case...Ivan has a tooth. TOTALLY NOT EXPECTING THAT! Lincoln did not have a single tooth in his head on his first birthday. In fact, I think he was 13 months when he finally started to cut one. Well, Ivan has been super crabby this last week, and one night I was holding him and letting him suck on my fingers when, ouch! He bit me. I was so surprised, I think I almost dropped him. But ya, his two bottom front teeth are coming in. I'm not very excited about it, because I know what I'm in for this time.

But on to the exciting news...Ivan is crawling!!! Yay!! I love it. Everyone told me that I would not be as excited for my second one to be mobile, boy were they wrong! If Ivan is mobile that means I don't have to carry him around all day, and I am all for it. He's crawling about a month or two earlier than Lincoln did. And Ivan really has a desire to move. You can see the determination in his cute little face. Linc was always just content to lay there, if something wasn't within arms reach, then he didn't really want it anyway. I think it might have something to do with the fact that Lincoln was such a chub. Ivan is definitely a healthy little guy, but he's a lot more slender than Lincoln was.

Feeding is going well. I decided that this go around I was going to make all of Ivan's baby food. It's not nearly as hard as I thought it as going to be. I just stick whatever it is in the blender, then poor it out into ice cube trays, let it freeze, then pop them out and store them in a tupperware in the freezer. Right now Ivan eats two cubes of baby food at each meal. (And I just found this out the other night, each ice cube in an ice cube tray is one ounce) He eats breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with bottles in between. The things he eats so far are: oatmeal cereal, applesauce, carrots, peaches, green beans, and bananas. I'm hoping to add broccoli this week.

Sleeping is not going well. Ivan still does not sleep through the night most nights. Occassionally he will, but Lincoln is up every night now too (which is going to be the subject of a different post some other day) so, it really doesn't even make much of a difference when he does sleep through the night. We've tried letting him cry it out. That worked really well for Lincoln. But it doesn't seem to be working at all with Ivan. He'll cry for up to an hour (and would probably cry longer, but an hour is my limit) until we go in there and feed him and put him back to bed. The most he gets up per night is twice. Grrr.

In other news, he's starting to get really squirmy. Which is making diaper changes more and more of a challenge. I think we're going to have to bust out the old "one leg over" method here before too long. Ivan always wakes up happy and smiley. He must have inherited that from his dad, because he sure did not get it from me. Ivan also loves his big brother, he watches him like a hawk and wants to be involved in everything he's doing, much to Lincoln's dismay. Ivan is for sure more of a mama's boy, then Linc ever has been. Ivan must always be very aware of my presence, because as soon as I walk out of the room, his little head will pop up, and if I'm not back in a few seconds, the crying begins. But we love the little guy, and we wouldn't trade him.