Monroe is now seven months old and he has found his voice. For better or worse, he has found a loud screeching voice to express his feelings and desires. Most often, we hear the screeching at the table when the rest of us are trying to have a relaxing meal. Okay, so that's a lie. The grownups are trying to have a relaxing meal, but the dinner table is rarely a relaxing place as Monroe has two older brothers who also feel the need to constantly express their feelings and desires. Parker and Conway tend to use words instead of screeches (most of the time) but they are not much quieter than Monroe.
Monroe's screeching is usually directly linked to him wanting something: a toy, a hug, a diaper change, MORE FOOD. In case just looking at him didn't clue you in - this kid loves to eat! Seriously, I think his thighs are as big around as both Conway's and Parker's. No lie. He continues to be pretty partial to breast milk directly from the source (he still won't take a bottle), but he's definitely into pretty much any pureed food that he's offered now too. Basically if he's at the table and a spoon of food isn't in his mouth, he's screeching and waving his arms.
My guess is we are a matter of days, if not hours, away from Monroe crawling. We have a previous post about how close he was to crawling and now he can do what one might actually call crawling except that it's only in reverse. Yet another thing that elicits screeching from Monroe. As in, "Why am I back here under the table when I was trying to get to that toy right in front of me?!?!"
Which leaves us only to cover the topic of sleep. Monroe's naps are getting shorter and farther apart, as would be expected. He's even toyed with dropping his third nap, but he doesn't seem quite ready to do that on a consistent basis yet. And we're still doing the dream feed - mostly because he won't take a bottle and us grown-ups like to be able to go out for the occasional date-night, which means Monroe isn't eating at his 7:15 bedtime anymore. Hopefully we aren't setting him up for needing food at 10:00pm for the rest of his life. 😟
Here's his typical schedule...
8:00 wake, eat
9:45 - 11:15 sleep then eat
1:30 - 3:00 sleep then eat
5:30 - 6:00 sleep then eat
7:15 bed time
10:00ish dream feed, back to bed
Actually, still one more topic. Check out this cute little guy and how excited/proud he was when he picked up the piece of paper in front of him.
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