Seven Months!

He makes us smile, he makes us laugh, he even puts us through pure exhaustion at times, but we can't stop cuddling and kissing his sweet face. We love our little Mark who turned 7 months today!

 He is changing so quickly! There are quite a few things we love about Mark, but a few of our favorites are:

• When he tries to blow raspberries with his lips and tongue, but nothing really happens
• When he takes his little hand and rubs your neck, arm, chest, or face while nursing
• When you pick him up and he wraps his arms around your entire neck like he's giving an extra big hug and smooshes his slobbery face into your neck like he's kissing you (then grabs your hair)
• When he reaches out for us to be held
• How we have to stick a binky in his mouth to keep him from chewing on everything in sight. This kid will grab anything (that is not his teething toys) and put it immediately into his mouth. We're talking cords, paper, hair, rocks....basically all the safe stuff :-)

 

Mark is the biggest cuddler EVER!  We do look forward to the day when he sleeps through the night, but in the meantime we are soaking up his cuddliness. I have just figured out that at 3:00 in the morning when he wakes up and won't go back to sleep, I just have to snuggle his body right up next mine and he will fall back to sleep within seconds. I know this is probably not going to help things when we move him to the crib soon, but at least we are all getting a little more rest than usual. Last night when I came home from work I saw Mark all cuddled up with Jamie. This boy really knows how to get the love.

We imagine he may be crawling in the next month. He is getting really good at lifting up onto his hands and knees and wobbling. You can tell he is working hard at figuring out how to move once he's in the crawl position.

 

He still gets very upset if you leave his sight, even for 5 seconds, but we love the huge smile he gives us the second we pop back into sight. Happy 7 months little guy!

And I just had to add one more picture of our little diva who is soon approaching 3. That can't be possible, can it?