John Hayden is 7 months old today. It seems like this past month literally flew by! Here's his monthly update:
--When I took him to the doctor a few weeks ago, he weighed 19 lbs. 3 oz. and was almost 28 inches long. He's around the 90th percentile for weight and between the 75th and 90th for height.
--We just recently moved him up to 7 oz. every 3ish hours. (If he would eat baby food like he's supposed to, I wouldn't have had to increase his ounces. He just really loves his bottle and could pass on the baby food!) He typically has 5 full bottles a day and a few ounces at bedtime. He's doing a little better with the baby food and actually ate half a container of carrots the other day, which surprised me. I gave him a sippy cup and he looked at me weird and then started chewing on the spout and has yet to figure out that he needs to suck on it, so I guess he won't be drinking from sippy cups anytime soon. Thankfully, we still have 5 whole months to get this eating and drinking thing down! Oh, and he started holding his bottle shortly after he turned 6 months old, so he can feed himself now, but I still try to hold him while he eats or at least for a few minutes.
--I moved him up to size 4 diapers for both daytime and nighttime. He has mostly outgrown all his 6 month stuff and is wearing almost all 9 month stuff, but can fit in some 12 month stuff as well. Some of the 9 month onesies don't have much growing room, so we'll probably be in 12 month onesies soon. He's still in 6-9 month pajamas but there is no growing room, so we'll be moving up to 9-12 months very soon.
--I'm almost afraid to type this for fear that he'll revert back, but he has been sleeping pretty good this past month. I moved his bedtime back a little (he was going to bed at 7 and now it's closer to 8) and started giving him a small bottle at bedtime and I think that has helped. Or maybe he's just finally settling down. He's been napping so much better for us as well. Up until recently, he had always been a cat napper, but he's started taking two naps a day now, usually 1 1/2 to 2 hours each. Sadly, he will no longer let me rock him to sleep unless it's nighttime, and sometimes he doesn't want me to then. And he could care less about a pacifier...won't take it at all. If you give it to him, he just chews on the edge of it and won't suck on it. That means I won't have to break him from it, but at the same time it's harder to soothe him when he's crying.
--This past month saw big changes for John Hayden, as he mastered sitting up unsupported, started army crawling, and cut two teeth (all of which happened within a week's time). He's all over the place now, trying to get into everything. His favorite spots in the living room to head for are the Internet router (because it has blinking lights) and the cord to the lamp and laptop. Also if Matt leaves his jump drive in the Xbox (which is on the floor), he will make a beeline for it as well. It's officially time to baby proof the house before he figures out how to crawl traditionally and can get places faster. He doesn't want to be held much anymore. He wants down or he wants you to walk around with him on your hip. He loves going outdoors and swinging. He hates being buckled into his carseat...he starts fussing as soon as you open the car door! (Once he's buckled, he calms down, though.) If we bring him into a restaurant in his carseat, he does pretty good. If we take him out and put him in a highchair, that's another story! I imagine we won't be eating out as much now since he's getting bigger (or at least until he is eating baby snack foods that I can use to keep him busy.) We've gotten really good at wrestling (literally) our little alligator for diaper changes and getting him dressed, since he refuses to stay on his back on the changing table. Half the time, he's hanging off of it, while we're holding a leg. I don't remember Juliette being quite as wild on the changing table...he's literally hanging off of it upside down and thinks it's fun...maybe that's just the difference between girls and boys. Most of the time we just end up dressing him on his belly.
Here are some pictures from this past month:
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| Being able to sit up unsupported means he gets to ride in the buggy at stores. He was so happy to be sitting in the buggy that the pictures I took were all fuzzy from him bouncing up and down! |
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| Mother's Day 2013 |
The comparison picture from this past month (click to make larger):
