7 months!

sunny days in portland

our baby is 7 months old! every single day is a blessing with my little carrot top! he is so much fun these days... laughing, making us laugh, talking (everything is "da da da"), drooling through several shirts a day (teeth soon!?), and putting every single thing in sight into his mouth.  we have been taking gray to the park almost every single day, as he has demonstrated great joy in being pushed in the baby swing! it is so, so cute.  (if you are friends with me on facebook, you have seen the pictures! i have about a gazillion! sidenote: you can see our photos at  http://picasaweb.google.com/pdxarmingtons)

the past two nights our little angel has slept through until the morning... i know, i know, just by saying that he will not do it again for months. (yet i am still exhausted when i get up? WTH?)  i am amazed at how quickly things change in baby-world.  one day he's barely pushing up onto his hands, and now he is trying SO hard to crawl! chad and i are secretly hoping for a couple more months before he is mobile... lots of baby proofing to do! he is up on his hands and knees, rocking back and forth... we turn our heads and somehow (although not by crawling) he has made it off the blanket onto the wood floor turned in a different way, smiling up at us like, "What? I'm sneaky!"

our good friends here had their little son 3 1/2 weeks ago, grayson's future bestie miles :)  hearing their stories of his behavior at 3 weeks old brings me back to last summer and honestly i cannot believe how quickly time flies.  what a blur, now G is so big his legs hang off me as i rock him to sleep, seems like not long ago he could fit in the bend of my elbow and snuggle in to my chest so easily. 

this month brings lots of fun planned in P-town: super bowl sunday tomorrow with friends, a visit to seattle to see "auntie" meg and hopefully other friends up there, and of course the long awaited return of gramma jo! (it has been since new year's eve that we have seen her, a long time for her to be away!)  plus of course lots of trips to the park and hikes (we're hoping for more of this sunny, dry weather!), hopefully a tooth or two, and a couple date nights for mama and daddy!

GO PACKERS! (did you know aaron rogers moved to oregon as a kid so his dad could go to western states chiropractic college?!? my alma mater!)