Sweet Baby Jonah

Jonah has had a very active month.  He is now 7 (almost 8) months. In the past 30 days or so, he has had many "firsts".  So many, in fact, that I think I'll use bullets to list them.

• Jonah now crawls very well
• He claps often 
• He pats your shoulder sometimes when you hold him
• He can go from sitting to crawling and from crawling to sitting
• Yesterday his first tooth came in (Finally!)
• He pulled himself up to standing yesterday on a kid-sized chair.  He stayed upright for about 2 whole seconds before he and the chair tipped over.  
• He says "Mama" so often that I have decided to declare it his first word.  In his mind it either means, "Mama" or "pay attention to me" because he uses it consistently when I'm around. 
• He eats Cheerios and small bits of crackers, bread, and pancakes.  This is a big step for me because once my kids can "snack", I feel like I have more flexibility when I'm running errands, etc.
• Pobrecito has also had his first illness.  He woke up yesterday with a fever and cough, but seems to be better today.

 

Jonah is such a happy, precious baby!  He is so good and sweet and patient with us all.  It's almost like he's trying to make up for the those very difficult first 3 months by being awesome.  I think that he is as glad as we are that he no longer has colic!

Bonus photos:  I took a couple pictures of my favorite people at the aquarium Friday.