Top 15

It seems like Henry's 7th month of life was a month of learning and a month of firsts! Here are his 15 "firsts" since his 7 month birthday.

1. He learned to crawl at 6 1/2 months, but he could not go from crawling to sitting....now he can!

2. Make the mo sound.

3. Pick up food with his fingers and get it to his mouth.

4. Drink from a sippy cup.

5. Ate his first Ritz cracker.

6. Run in his "walker."

7. Eat meat...sweet potatoes mixed with chicken, chicken and rice and beef and rice

8. Learned how to fake cry to get attention.

9. Became very ticklish.

10. Learned how to put himself to sleep at nap time.

11. Can pull up and cruise around furniture.

12. Figured out how to put his passy in his mouth and leave it there.

13. Started sleeping through the night....sometimes.

14. Got a big boy car seat (still sitting facing the back, but it is much better)!

15. Has a favorite tv show....Yo Gabba Gabba (of course he would like this weird one...however, Jack Black was on it the other day and it was pretty funny seeing him in the orange Afro and jumpsuit dancing)!

On the go!

We have already made it halfway through November and we have not stopped going since it started. I, however, am not complaining because I like to stay busy as does Henry! On November 4th, the three of us left for the mountains with Beau's parents (Ganny and Pops). We had an excellent time and stayed in a beautiful lake house close to Clemson! We were all completely spoiled by Ganny and Pop and were depressed to come home, but we could not live there forever.....

Henry is also on the move. Since he learned how to crawl and pull up, that is all he wants to do. I cannot keep the child still to change a diaper, clothing, bathing, eating....does it get better people???? He loves to move and unfortunately we have had a few accidents along the way. Below are some pictures from our trip. Beau and Pops took Henry to Clemson to tour the school/stadium. The guys put Henry in a Clemson beanie and got lots of attention from Clemson female students. Beau's quote was..."Man, I wish I would have had Henry around when I was in college." Well, needless to say, the girls really only loved my little guy, not my big one.

All in all, it was a great weekend! Clemson played Florida State and won. Beau and I went to the game and it only took 25 minutes to get home...that was wonderful!!! We really appreciate Beau's parents taking us up for a little vacation and look forward to many more!

Henry and Ganny....standing of course!

Henry getting ready to go to Clemson!


Go Tigers (notice the rock behind Beau's head)

I think Beau was trying to explain the tiger paw to Henry....

I think that is tiger Henry is touching???

In the leaves with Ganny while Beau and I are tailgating.

Hanging with Pops.

Let me start off with reminding you of a previous post entitled My Little Walker If you watch the whole video, the end shows Henry pulling on a small table with a flower arrangement on top. Well, that is the day I should have removed the table and flowers!

SO, we get home on Sunday after our trip and are unpacking the car and getting things organized. Well, I put Henry in his walker to keep him busy. While I was messing with stuff on the dining room table, Henry proceeded to pull down the table and flowers which were in a metal urn. As soon as everything came crashing to the floor he burst into tears. It took me a few minutes to figure out what was hurt, but then I saw this.....

My poor baby has a purple thumb and it still is a little painful today! I feel horrible, but it will all be fine. The doctor checked it out and said his nail may fall off, but there was not permanent damage. Man, do I feel bad for not removing the table weeks ago!

Don't worry, my little man is on the move again...following me while I am taking pictures and as happy as can be!

7 months already!

Saturday was Henry's 7 month birthday, so I took his 7 month pictures. It was a lot easier to do this when he was stationary! He was all over the crib and I could not get a good picture without the sign being blurry...but you get the idea. Follow the progression of picture taking below!

Henry finds something new on the wall..."maybe I should play with this..."

Henry proceeds to tear it down to put in his mouth.

Oooooooh, what do I have here? You probably can't tell, but his mouth is open.

"Oh, this paper is worthless. I am going to throw it out!"

So, there is my sign...crumpled up, wet and on the floor. I wonder what will happen to my 8 month sign.

He thinks its a riot!

As of right now, Henry is on the move all day long. He loves to crawl around, but mostly wants to find a place to pull himself up and pull down anything and everything that is on a table. He still loves his walker and his jumper. It is amazing how high he jumps in his jumper. It is also funny to watch him in his walker because he has figured out how to maneuver around everything...watching him back up is hilarious.

As far as sleeping goes, he usually wakes up once at night, but I do not give him a bottle...just rock him back to sleep. I have been trying to let him cry, but it takes too long and rocking is quicker. We did not like the time change like we have in the past because it got us all out of whack and we actually got less sleep...how is that possible????

Then there is eating...we put Henry on regular Nutramigen a few weeks ago and he seems to be doing well. Hopefully by the time he is 1, he will be able to drink regular milk. He does not love to drink milk, but would rather eat baby food, which is fine, but I know he needs the nutritional stuff in the milk. His favorite foods right now are: peaches, bananas, apples, sweet potatoes, green beans and carrots. He is not a huge fan of pears, squash and peas. However, he will eat the pears and squash, but not the peas. He gags at the thought! He gets 3 full meals every day....oatmeal (because he was not digging the rice cereal) and a fruit for breakfast, a vegetable and fruit for lunch and 2 veggies for dinner. You would think with all of the playing and eating, he would want to sleep at night....who knows when that big day will happen!

Overall, Henry is a happy baby and really only gets upset when he is bored or tired. We are really enjoying him and pray that he will one day sleep.....

Happy Halloween!

Happy Belated Halloween! Beau and I were bad parents yesterday and went to Clemson to watch the game instead of dressing up our child and taking him to a Halloween carnival. However, we did dress him up in his monkey suit today and take some pictures. We hope everyone had a great time Trick-0r-treating!

Here Beau and Henry are at The Williams Boo Bash. Notice Henry's death grip on Beau's hair....ouch!

DADA!!!

Henry has started really "talking" lately and I finally got a good video of him saying "Dadadadad." I am sure he does not associate it with Beau yet, but it is a start! Oh, check out the beginning...he says MO or something like that! Pretty exciting!

One more thing...ignore Yo Gabba Gabba in the background (what is that show anyhow??? It is one of the strangest children's shows I have seen. I mean who is that guy with the orange afro and why do some of the monsters have one eye...it is really weird, but Henry loves it)! Also, sorry about all of the carrots and green beans on Henry's face. He seems to really talk while we are eating.

On the go!

When Lindsey and I took our boys to the pumpkin patch, I could not get Henry to smile (which he does all day), so I wanted to go back with a different outfit and bring dad to try and get a smile out of our little man. Well, I got 1 good smile at the camera and in the rest of them he was looking at Beau or eating the hay. We went to the hay first and there was no chance of me getting anything out of him, but the below picture. It was hilarious!

This is my favorite smiling picture. Honestly, he does smile all day (unless he is fussing because something is not going his way).


I just thought this was sweet picture of the boys.

He looks like a little pumpkin farmer!

On Sunday I was letting Henry practice his crawling and he had a blast! It is really hard for him to crawl on the hardwood floors with pants on so he prefers I put him on the carpet. However, as soon as I put him down on the carpet, he goes straight for the hardwoods. Here he is starting out....

Then drifts behind the couch (on the hardwoods) because he sees.....

a basket! Who knew baskets were so fun!!!

Then we were bored of crawling and I decided I would let Henry chase the dogs around the porch in his walker....and they hate it!!! It is pretty funny to watch! Here is Henry chasing Molly. She is NOT happy!

Last, but not least, Henry has just started really JUMPING in his little jumper. Now he loves it and is jumping pretty high! It is so funny to watch him jump. In this video he jumps for a solid 51 seconds and then stops at the end for a little break to catch his breath. A few seconds later he takes off again! It definitely wears him out!

Sunday's Excitement!

Well, our house is no longer safe! We are going to have to baby proof everything this week! As of yesterday, Henry has figured out 2 new tricks. We put him down for a nap this morning and I looked on his monitor and there he was standing up in his crib bouncing! I have already lowered his crib to the middle section and it looks like it is going down even farther... He, on the other hand is very excited about his latest discovery and is now waking up after an hour nap to stand up in his crib! How exciting! Below are some pictures of what I found when I went to his room to get him to go to sleep....OH, and GO TIGERS!!!

Henry has also been trying very hard to crawl and this weekend when he was with Beaus parents he really got going. He still gets frustrated, but here he is crawling across our living room......oh, and the squeaking is not a dog toy but a chew toy for Henry.