7 Months

My sweet baby is 7 months old already, and has changed so much in the last month.  He started sitting up unassisted, a few seconds at a time, in the middle of November, and then suddenly on the 18th he sat up for 20 minutes straight!  I still put a pillow directly behind him when he's sitting, but most of the time when he falls over it's on purpose because he's trying to get to something.

Since he is sitting up so well, we got a tubby seat so he can safely take baths with his big brother.  Tyler loves being in the water and Timmy is enjoying the company!

On the 28th he decided he was hungry right when I was sitting down to a delicious dinner, so I propped him up on a pillow on the floor and set him up holding his own bottle.  He drained it without ever being re-situated.  It was great while I was eating, but I was immediately sad that he is that independent!  Now he likes to play with the bottle when he's done eating.  I think chewing on it feels good to his gums, and he just likes being a big shot, taking it in and out and twisting it around!

Tyler is not crawling, but he is definitely mobile!  He rolls all over the place, and he's fast!  We are already shutting the gate at the top of the basement steps.  Last weekend I left Timmy and Tyler playing in the living room, shut the gate, and went to the basement to do a few things.  On my way down I told Timmy that I was shutting the gate so Tyler wouldn't roll down the stairs, not to keep him out, and that he could just call for me if he needed something.  A few minutes later I hear, "Mom! Mom!  Tyler's trying to roll up the stairs!"  When I came up I found Tyler had rolled all the way over to the bottom of the upstairs staircase... I explained to Timmy that that was okay, I didn't think it was likely he would fall up the stairs!

Timmy is wonderful about keeping his little toys up and out of Tyler's reach and also about supplying Tyler with his own toys, all of them, piled on his lap so he can play with whichever one he feels like!  When Tyler does manage to roll his way over to something he shouldn't have, Timmy is happy to rush over and gently get it from him, and then find him something he is allowed to have.  In the last few days, Timmy has gone from piling Tyler's toys to placing them in a line.  I asked him why he did it the first time, and he got a sheepish grin. I asked him if he was trying to get Tyler to crawl and his smile got bigger as he said yes.

Tyler is as easy going as ever, as evidence, he fell asleep in his jumper the other night without ever making a complaint!

On Monday night Tyler was sitting with me on the couch and Timmy was on the floor in front of us.  Tyler reached over and touched Timmy's hair, which got an excited response from Timmy, which made Tyler laugh, which made Timmy laugh, so Tyler did it again.  Tyler initiating one of these silly cycles is new, usually Timmy does something accidentally that makes Tyler laugh, so he repeats it, but Tyler was clearly in the drivers seat for this one.  We got several minutes of it on our good video camera, got the last two turns on my cell phone, which is much easier for me to upload!  Timmy is saying "Don't pull my hair!" when he turns.  Seeing my boys laughing together makes me one happy Mommy!