7 months

(Picture to come after its taken on the 24th)Dear Chase, Tomorrow, on Christmas Eve, you turn 7 months old.  7 months?!?!?!  Where has the time gone.  Each day with you gets more exciting as you grow.  As I say every month, you are absolutely a joy.  We are so blessed to have you and are looking forward to spending Christmas with you and your brother and all of our family.  You are still sleeping pretty well.  You go down about 8 and sleep til about 7 am.  Occasionally, you wake in the night but go back to sleep after a little rocking.  You eat 4 times a day and have two solid foods.  You love your Mum Mums but are so messy with them. You tried chicken noodle yesterday and you don't really like that but you love all of your fruits and most of the veggies.When you nurse you are very very quick.(About 10 or so minutes) You are always smiling.  You are such a happy guy.  You don't fuss too much.  Mostly when you are over tired want to be held or are hungry.  You will sit and watch us move around but if we sit down you want to be held.When you get really tired you fuss til you get comfy.You are a mommas boy and I LOVE IT!You spit and blow raspberries all the time.  You are growing out of your bouncy but still love being in it.  You are completely out of Nanny's and Gagas's bouncer but thankfully you can't sit up in ours quiet yet.  You love your exasaucer and the bouncy horse at Nanny's. Your favorite toy is the music piano.  You are still in size two diapers but ready to move up we have a few left and when were done with those you'll be in size three diapers.At your 6 month check up the Dr. said you were in the 7th and 12 percentile for weight and height and we just couldn't believe that because you are such a chunk to us but I do think you are a tiny bit smaller than Colton was at this age.  You fit in 6 month clothes but mostly wear 9 month.You are sitting up so well.  You will lay on your belly to play for a little bit but you want to sit up in be in the action.Your diapers are tough to change because you always try to roll over or play,When we lay you down at night you roll onto your belly.You know your name.You reach for us or reach up to us when you want to be held.You still occasionally choke when you eat and you have started biting mommy when you nurse.  Not nice.  Not nice at all.You like to scream back and forth with your brother.  We all think you sound like a little bird.  Speaking of your brother, you absolutely adore him.  He can always calm you down or make you smile. You love it when he makes silly noises or shoots his marshmallow gun (not at you of course). You laugh so hard at him.If you don't have a toy to play with you play with your feet.  We have trouble keeping socks on you because you pull them off or chew on them.You had your first taste of people food.  Your Uncle Jerry snuck you a taste of cake icing.  You made a silly face but I'm sure you would have gobbled up more if more had been offered. You have absolutely, hands down, the best laugh! 

We love you to the moon and back little monkey!Love, Mommy