Harrison: 7 months

Well, since he's almost 8 months old, I should probably talk about his 7th month...
He's just growing so fast I can't keep up!

Here's a quick comparison of how much he's grown. He's only about 2 weeks old in the picture on the right.

He's not very mobile because he's my lazy baby. His brothers feed into his lazy by doing everything for him, but he can still get into things! I brought him into the kitchen with me while I cleaned out the fridge, so he found a way to keep himself busy-

He's eating pretty much everything we put in front of him. He especially loves quesadillas and carrots. And he'll never turn down some bread.

He's beginning to play with his brothers!

He still cries, "brah brah" when they leave the room. Here he is playing Legos with his big brothers. The older boys had gone upstairs to play and he cried and cried while staring at the door they left through, so I decided to take him up to their room so he could see him. As soon as he saw them he started giggling and screaming (excited screams). So he ate a Lego while they built stuff.

His favorite toy is still an empty water bottle, but his jumperoo is a very close second.

This is kind of random, but I'm so so grateful Harrison will get to wear this shirt. Jackson wore it, then Austin, and next, Harrison. Austin's just about grown out of it, but it's my very favorite shirt, and I'm so grateful Harrison will wear it in a couple years. I don't know why I'm so attached to this shirt, the boys have had several "I love mommy" shirts, but this one just makes my heart happy.

Harrison is growing so fast, it feels like the first 12 months of his life are merely 12 weeks. I blink and he's one month older. He's such a good, happy baby, so maybe that's why it's going so fast. I don't know, but I wish it would slow down.

I love this face, he gives me this face quite often. I think he thinks I'm a little crazy.

...he's probably right.

Comments

Maybe a new birthday tradition...

I just have one brother and his birthday is 5 days before mine, so it's been pretty easy to keep up with him. Jim, however, has 3 brothers and a sister, and now 3 of his siblings are married, so the birthday's just keep adding up. My forgetful brain can NOT keep up. Anyway, I've been looking for a cute and thoughtful way to send birthday greetings to all the aunts and uncles since we've been married. Almost 4 years later I think I finally have an idea! My idea is to make a birthday sign every year and have the boys take a picture with the sign for whatever family member has a birthday. Then send the person the picture with birthday greetings. Then every year they will have a different picture with the boys as they grow and I won't feel guilty missing anyone's birthday without proper acknowledgement. I also thought that it would make a great photo album for us if we keep each person's birthday picture with the boys and watch their growth progression ...

Can I finally join the club??

I have issues with making anything with yeast. It scares me. I tried making rolls or bread in home-ec as a kid and it was a FLOP! Since, I stay far away from baking goods with yeast, so of course, that includes homemade bread. I LOVE homemade bread, but I've never made it. I realize I'm not a real Mormon wife and mother because of this huge flaw, but I've managed to make it as a so-so wife and mom with this awful glitch in my character. Then I came across an "easy" recipe for honey wheat bread (thanks for posting it on fb Liz Nuffer) and decided to conquer my fear of yeast. First things first, I had to buy yeast- there are 394 different kinds of yeast. No one warned me how many different kinds there were! My fear began to overcome me, but I gathered all my strength and picked the most interestingly plain kind I could find. Hopefully it would do the trick! I followed the recipe, but it said to wait until the yeast "frothed". ...

It's time to play catch-up

I haven't updated the blog in awhile because life has been VERY busy. Lots of new things happening, but that's for another day, another blog. A week or so ago we had a special breakfast, we had dessert for breakfast, strawberry shortcake. Austin LOVED it, but he's not a picky eater. Jackson, however, was not impressed with this special treat. It was like pulling teeth just to get him to try it, then he responded with, "it's delicious!", but wouldn't take another bite. I even made fresh whipped cream which he usually loves, but he wasn't interested. Anyway here are the boys with their special breakfasts. I recently posted about the new chore chart that I made for Jackson and it is going SO well!! I thought he would flip out with the 15 minutes of game time, but he doesn't. He really likes moving the magnets around on the chart and cashing in chores for nickels every night. He even knows how to use the timer for his 15 minutes of game time. ...

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