Brothers Playing Together

Milo and Beckett were just playing with a toy together....it was the cutest thing ever.



And while uploading videos today, I found this one from a couple of weeks ago of Milo running around and Beckett laughing:

Walking with Assistance

Beckett will now take a few steps if you put him on his walker toy. He still can't pull himself up on to it, but if you put him there he will stand and start to walk.



And his second tooth is poking through the gums now. It's his upper left central incisor (or 6-1 in dental terms). This one didn't seem to cause him as much pain as the last one.

Beckett Playing Catch

A little video to show Beckett's newest game:

A couple of videos

Here are a couple of videos from today:

This one is just a quick video of Beckett clapping:


And this one is showing how he's attempting to move around.

Babbling

Beckett has started babbling A LOT in this past week. Last week he started opening and closing his mouth a lot, kind of like a fish, and this week, mostly starting 2 days ago, he's started adding sound - like na na na na na na na. Here is a video:



He's really good at sitting independently and playing with his toys right now, too.

And we've now given him beets. And he actually liked them!!!

And his hair is growing but mostly on the top of his head. It's really sticking up around his crown right now. Sometimes we call him spike!!

And I'm really hoping not to jinx this by saying anything, but for the last 3 nights he's slept all night - from 7 to 6 or so. I have been feeding him just before we go to bed at 10 or 10:30, but he goes right back to sleep. His wake up times have been getting a little earlier, but that's manageable as long as he sleeps through the night!

And he dances now when you sing to him!! He kind of bops around - it's soooo cute!!

7 months

Well, 7 months has come. Beckett is now 14 lb 11 oz. I don't think this is too bad considering his recent bout with the stomach flu. It took almost 2 full weeks from when it started for the poor little guy to get his appetite for solids back, plus for most of the first week he didn't even have much of an appetite for breastmilk or anything at all to drink. Thank goodness the vomiting is over though!! Of course, Bevan and I also came down with the same bug - I guess this is the start of new germs coming into the house!!

Beckett is doing a great job sitting up now - he loves to sit up and play with his toys, and plays well independently. It's so cool to watch him now with toys like his learning table and fisher-price walker because he is so much better at pushing the buttons. And he'll do something once, realize that it makes the toy react and then he'll do it over and over and over.

He loves to play peek-a-boo - I think it makes him laugh more than anything else. His love for blowing raspberries took a bit of a break, but it's back in full force now!! I think he forgot about it for a while!!



Still no teeth, and no signs of crawling yet. I'm trying to get him to spend as much time on the floor as possible, but every time he finds his way to his tummy he pretty much just freaks out!!

As for food, up until now he has had sweet potatoes, carrots, chicken, green beans, applesauce, pears, peas, acorn squash. We gave him his first organic baby mum mum this week and today he had toast for the first time - I just gave him dry toast cut up into strips. He mostly just gummed it and made it soggy, but he really likes feeding himself so I try to give him stuff he can practice with.

Beckett and I had a movie date again yesterday. We saw "Valentine's Day" - it was a really good movie, and Beckett was a wonderful date - he was very well behaved, no fussing really. He didn't even nap this time, but within 5 seconds of being in the car afterwards he was fast asleep!!!

We've started "The sleepeasy solution" to deal with overnight feedings. Since he is still under 15lb, I get him up twice during the night to feed him, but other than that he is doing a great job and not waking. We've been doing it for just over a week now and for the first few nights he would wake up and cry for a while, but now I think he's become pretty good at putting himself back to sleep. I was feeding him at 9 and 2:30 to begin with, but last night I fell asleep on the couch and missed the 9 o'clock feeding so I didn't get to him until 10:45 and he hadn't even woken up. His other feeding is at about 3 o'clock. Once I'm sure his weight is okay, I'll start cutting out the overnight feeds, but for now I'm more comfortable making sure he's getting as much milk as possible.

And to round things off, a few pictures:

A cute shirt he got as a gift a while back:


Cheering on the Canadian Olympic Team:


And some of his 7 month photos:



And his Valentine's Day Photo: