chaos & coffee: January 2016

SEVEN

Oh hey my big 7 month old! This past month flew by. We spent the first half of the month impatiently waiting to visit Iowa and then the 2 weeks in Iowa flew by so fast. I worried so much about your first flight but you did so well! You were so content to hang out in the wrap and take in all your surroundings when we laid over in Chicago and you looked out the window and slept on both flights. You're a pro at flying now.

2015 has been such a great year for us, we welcomed you into our cozy little family and are so blessed to call you ours. We left hot Texas and moved out to the east coast. You had your first Thanksgiving and first Christmas. You are already a lover of opening presents! I would say that 2015 has been a pretty great year.

Being home is always bittersweet. I love being back but it makes me home sick and always wanting to stay longer. You had so much fun spending time with friends and family! You are such a happy, laid back baby that you were such a champ at running all over the place and napping wherever you were for the day. It filled my mama heart with so much joy to see so many people love and care for you.

You are sitting like a champ. That big noggin of yours gets the better of you every once in awhile but for the most part you love sitting and playing with all your toys.
You love singing! I usually have music playing during the day and you belt your sweet little voice right along with it. You are definitely finding your voice now! You love to mimic all the noises that I make and it makes you so proud.
You get so excited when dad comes home from work. You adore your daddy and love spending one on one time with him.
You love to laugh! You are always finding something to giggle over and I. cannot. get. enough. seriously. Your giggles are everything.
You are starting to move and groove more. You have this awesome scoot where you plant your face into the ground and stick your hiney up in the air and try to push yourself along.
We started giving you rice cereal but you were not a big fan so we went ahead and started giving you oatmeal mixed with apples or bananas and that you are happy to eat.
You like to dance as well! Music is pretty much your thing.
Chewing on fingers are a thing of the past and toes are the in chew toy.
I'm not for sure you are teething yet. I swear I don't feel anything but your dad thinks that he feels some teeth popping up. You drool like crazy and chew on everything but you have been that way for a couple of months now.
You are rolling around all the time now. Front to back and back to front. You have got the hang of it and love showing off.
Sleeping..well... For awhile it seemed like we were set. You were heading to bed around 7 sleeping through the night till about 5 waking up to nurse then back down again till about 7. Then we switched you to a pack and play since we were heading home and you were going to sleep in that. The dreaded pack and play. I hate the stupid thing to be right honest. For two weeks before we left and the two weeks we were at home you started getting up around 1 or 2 then again around 3 or 4 and sometimes you would get up at 5 and want to stay up and party for about an hour before you were ready to lay back down again. I was not a fan after being blessed with you sleeping through the night. It got worse when we got home though and we started having you nap in your crib during the day and the pack and play at night. You were getting up 3 to 4 times a night and this mama was extremely grumpy. Hopefully we will get back to sleeping through the night again soon.