Thomas is now 7 months old, and he's 27.5 inches tall. Well, he was 2 days ago. He appears to have grown another inch since waking up this morning. His legs are so skinny and long. They match his torso. His favorite activities are smiling and giggling and heading right for Amelia's nose with a wide-open mouth. She's pretty gentle when he's close up, so she doesn't realize he's trying to eat her nose. When he's sitting/rolling on the floor, however, she's been caught swatting at him with an arm, a shoe, a toy, a doll, a book, whatever she can find. It will come back to her.
Michael noted that Thomas seems to have an increase in TESTOSTERONE this week. He has become more vocal and aggressive. His sweet cat-like squeal was replaced with a louder yell. When we try to feed him and he doesn't want it, he squirms away and basically hits whatever you're forcing into his mouth. His favorite pastime is carpet-swimming. If you put him on his belly on one side of the room, he kicks, lunges, and rolls to get to interesting toys and cords on the other side. He's so long that 12 mo. shirts barely reach his belly button. He's so skinny that 12 mo. shorts slide off. This is a problem. He's nearly weaned, and he's eating 3 meals/day.
Here is a picture of them with their friend Hannah who was here one evening...
Amelia now has full control (when awake) of her bladder. We thought she had control of other systems over the past couple weeks, but we had a minor setback. It seems she now associates dirty underwear with taking a bath. She loves baths, so she has decided bringing me her dirty undies will get her what she wants. Ughh...
Her language skills are growing at an unbelievable rate. She's watched Signing Time a bit on TiVo and uses signs/words nonstop. Her grandparents drill her with educational books when they're around, so she says stuff all the time that amazes us. This week we heard:
"Tell Papa I'm Okay!" and "My toe hurts. It has a circle on it." and "Mama, I want more milk please." The "I'm okay!" sentence is the funniest because she senses when someone is hurt or sad or mad. She wrinkles her forehead, tilts her head and with great empathy asks, "Are you okay?" It is absolutely precious. I want to get a video of it, but she's having a "No camera, Mommy!" month. She's been way into taking care of baby dolls and crayons lately.
All of us are looking forward to fun at the beach with the Kelley clan! Guess I better go supervise the packing :)
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