Seven Months

Calvin is seven months old!  I can't believe how crazy and wonderful the last few months have been with my baby boy.  He is growing up so fast.  He is sitting up on his own, eating solid foods, babbling like crazy, and had his first tooth come through.  He started sitting up on his own around five months.  He loves to sit at the piano and bang on the keys, especially if he is right next to his daddy.  He LOVES to eat.  Calvin gets super excited when he sees mom or dad with any kind of food and when we feed him we can't give him the food fast enough.  For a while now Calvin has been doing crazy arm/hand/feet movements.  Everybody who sees it laughs and says that they have never seen a baby do that before.  He gets really into it, almost like he directing an orchestra... or having a seizure (we actually even asked the doctor about it because we were a little worried).  Calvin started clapping around five and a half months.  His doctor was very impressed at his six month appointment and said that clapping was normally a ten month skill.
Calvin took his first big trip last week.  Calvin and I flew to Arizona with Aunt Cassidee.  We flew down to visit Joseph and Lauren, it was a lot of fun!  We spent eight days there and got to relax and spend some time at the pool and in the sun.  Calvin loves to swim and be in the water so he had a lot of fun at the pool.  Calvin did great on both of our flights and we got some cute pictures of his first plane ride.
Now that we're home and I don't have school anymore we are trying to get Calvin on a more regular schedule.  Right now Calvin goes to bed around eleven or midnight every night, and we are going to try and set a regular bedtime at eight.  So far it has proven very difficult to get him asleep that early.  We have had several nights of letting him scream in his crib for half an hour before giving up. Calvin is not a boy that likes to sleep, he fights it SO hard before he will finally go down.  Normally he sleeps in our bed (and when I say normally, I mean EVERY night), which is another habit we are trying to break.  So far we have made it to the point where he sleeps in his own bed about two hours every night and the rest with us (we'll take what we can get though).
Calvin is now over 20 pounds and wearing 12 month clothes... he is a big boy!  He is the perfect amount of chubby, he has the cutest little chubby belly and fat rolls you will ever see.
This last week Calvin had his first teeth come through.  Normally Calvin is a very happy baby, but this week he has been really fussy and has drooled enough to fill a kiddy pool.  We have been giving him tylenol and orajel when it gets really bad.
I love my baby Calvin so much.  I love watching his face light up and his huge, perfect smiles when he sees Nathan or I.  I love his adorable laughs and his funny little quirks.  I love when he wakes up and talks to himself in the morning.  I love holding him and kissing his chubby cheeks.  He is my beautiful, wonderful little baby and I am so blessed to be his mommy!