7 Months

Levi Daniel is 7 months old!

He is growing so fast and learning new things every day. He's talking constantly (babbles, squeals, squeaks and belly laughs), he's moving all over the place and he's trying lots of new foods. As of his 7 month birthday (two weeks ago... I'm running a little late!) he still wasn't officially crawling but he sure was trying hard. He could get up on all fours, rock back and forth, make some forward and backward motion, but not officially, traditionally crawling. He would sometimes work at it if we had a really cool toy that he could go towards but his best efforts were when his Daddy was sitting a few steps away. Levi is learning how to pull himself up to a standing position while playing on the floor with us. He'll grab whatever he can (hair, clothes, faces) and then get up on his chubby little feet and then he wants to let go. He is so proud of himself! He seems pretty over the exersaucer and instead prefers to eat his cheerios while standing and holding on to the outside of it. Crazy kid! He's begun to feed himself little pieces of food like peas, cheerios and little pieces of toast. He really enjoys being in his high chair and we can usually get a few minutes to eat lunch or dinner ourselves as long as the supply of food keeps coming on his tray. We haven't found much that he won't eat but he definitely has preferences from day to day. It's so fun to see his little personality coming through already. He's doing a great job of sleeping through the night these days and his bed time is inching closer and closer to the 7 o'clock hour. It's definitely been nice for us to have a schedule and some down time in the evenings to get things done. It has been a great month and we're already half way into the next one! 

Inching towards the camera. He does NOT sit still!

Most of my pictures were of this. His back side, his forehead or his hands as he tried to tumble off the chair.

Practicing getting that belly off the floor!

His famous swim techniques.
We can always tell when he's done on his stomach because his arms and legs flap about as though he is swimming. Who knows? Maybe he'll be in the Olympics... I was on the swim team in high school you know... for one year... :)