Happy 7 Months Birthday, Peanut!

King of his domain

He can't sit still long enough for a photo

Ba Ngoai (Kim's mom) was in Austin over the Labor Day weekend and said she could see Peanut's head from her bed and thought he might be sitting up in his crib. Today, I walked into his room while he was playing and witnessed him sitting in his crib, staring at me with his big brown eyes. Tonight, Jared and I will be lowering his mattress.

Even though the sitting was a couple of days past his 7 month birthday, we'll still count it as his birthday milestone. His other milestones are:

• Makes up sentences using his extensive vocabulary of words like dada, baba, agee, agoo, and other garbul-tee-goop.
• Holds his bottle.
• Fearlessly commando crawls throughout the house sweeping up every dust ball in his path. (We are seriously considering wrapping him in Swiffer pads so he could clean our floor while he's at it.)
• Devours sweet potatoes, carrots, and bananas, but isn't too keen on broccoli and peas.
• Outgrew his 6-9 month clothes, graduating to 12 months.
• Curiously grabs and mouths everything within reach; his favorites being daddy's glasses, the Tivo remote control, and daddy's phone.
• Sleeps 10-11 hours at night.
• Loves swimming.

Peanut's unofficial 7 month weigh-in shows him to be 19.5 lbs and he squirms way too much for me to measure his height.