Seven months old! Seems like passing months now are like what passing hours felt like when I was Lily’s age. Time is speeding up without my permission…did you ever see the show “Sabrina the Teenage Witch”? She could stop time by touching her two pointer fingers together – I wish I were her sometimes.
Anyway – Our family’s favorite thing that JT has been doing this month is playing peek a boo. He is so funny to watch giggle. He thinks it is so fun, maybe he is just laughing at how goofy we look trying to play with him? Mason wrote a great tribute to JT for a writing assignment (check out Mason’s blog). Lex is the queen babysitter now – able to babysit ALL 5 kids without too much stress. Lily wants to be the first one to hold him in the morning and the last one to give him a snuggle before bedtime. Stephen is enjoying JT’s age a little more – he likes it when babies are old enough be NOT be so fragile. I am feeling a lot more freedom as JT decided to ween himself. It’s crazy how I can feel two opposite emotions at the same time – elation and sadness. It is hard/sad knowing this is the last time I will get to do this kind of stuff, but on the other hand… I’m hoping to be diligent with holding him while he drinks his bottle so I won’t miss out on the one on one time with him (not wanting to prop it – although I’ve done it a few times already- oops). Nobody’s Perfect, isn’t that right Miley Cyrus? Olivia deserves a whole paragraph as to what’s been going on for her and JT this month.
Olivia has been fun to watch as she tells me to touch JT’s head gently and stroke it. She is also great at giving hugs and kisses and just talking cute to him or sing him songs or read him books. BUT, we have also been trying to be creative with how to keep Olivia away from JT – for safety’s sake. She has been found carrying him around and then dropping him, pulling his poor little arms, wacking toys on his head, yanking his feet as I carry him, she has even been known to sit on top of the guy. So now that he sits up he is usually on a blanket, we’ve been spreading it out with random toys scattered around so that he can pick them up and suck on them. One day I decided to tell Olivia that we were going to pretend that the blanket is hot lava and if she touches it she will melt. At first she still tried to carry on with the poking and prodding, but recently she has been reminding me about the hot lava and I see her hanging out around the edges of his blanket.
We were at our friend’s house the other day and explained the game that we play. Their little girl said, “I don’t like the hot lava.” She doesn’t think our game is very cool or fun. I told her that one of these days the volcano might erupt. If she sees this video, she’ll understand why…I was completely drenched tonight! This eruption happened not only once, but twice! Two different solid streams with lots of power…luckily I don’t think JT is sick – just didn’t settle well.
Here’s to another month with the coolest baby around!