Reece is 7 months!

Wow! We're getting closer and closer to a year...I'm so not ready for that.

At 7 months Reece weighs about 17 pounds. He can still wear his 6 month clothes, but 9 month really fits him better. (We're just squeezing him into those 6 month summer clothes because I don't want to buy bigger ones) He wears a size 3 diaper and a 2.5 shoe. (We just had him fitted for shoes a few weeks ago but he doesn't actually wear them yet)

Sleep at 7 months is slowly improving...He's not waking up every hour at night anymore but he's still up more than I would like :/ He gets his bedtime bottle (so we can give him the reflux meds) around 7 and then is up at 1 on a good night and then again around 4 or so. If it's not a good night he's up around 11, 2 and then up at 5 for the day. When he wakes up around 5 every morning, Ryan takes him downstairs and can almost always get him back to sleep on the couch until 6:30 or so. But if I get up with him at 5, he thinks it's time to play. Needless to say, Daddy gets up almost every morning. Ha!

He still takes 30 minute naps every 2 and a half hours or so.

Reece still nurses during the day and gets a bottle in the morning and evening for reflux meds. He is also eating all three solid meals! He eats oatmeal with some kind of fruit mixed in for breakfast and then a veggie with fruit mixed in for lunch and dinner. He will not eat fruit by itself, it has to be hidden in something else. His favorites are sweet potatoes, green beans and squash. He can drink water from a sippy cup.

He LOVES puffs, and isn't really a fan of the yogurt melts yet. I gave him cheerios for the first time today and he didn't really like those either. He has tried small bites of banana, white potatoes, peach, mandarin oranges and zuccini.

Reece has been crawling for a while and is now a pro at pulling up and is even beginning to cruise the furniture. He likes to hold onto things with one hand but hasn't tried standing alone yet. He loves to crawl all over Mom and Dad like his own personal jungle gym.

He still loves Hailey (and now her toys and books). Hailey is pretty good about letting him hold some of them but the coveted Paw Patrol toys are off limits. She also loves to call to me from the other room, "Mom, come look at your son!" and show me what he's doing.

Reece loves to wait at the front door for Daddy in the afternoons and is trying so hard to sneak and climb the stairs

now he even tries to sneak Hailey's juice cups. (He can't figure out how to get anything out of it, but he tries!)

Reece LOVES bathtime! If we're in the bathroom upstairs for any reason during the day he crawls over, pulls up on the tub and starts banging his hands on it like "Let me in!" In the tub he is now sitting alone and loves to splash!

We love you busy boy!