Milestone: Clapping!

Within the past week Hudson has started clapping! He mostly does it when we do or if we say "yay" ..it's so adorable!! Check it out:

7 months old!!

Sorry for the delay in posting ..it's been a crazy, busy month!! :) I started training a new dispatcher at work, I've been trying to visit friends/family on my days off, keeping up with the daily household tasks and enjoying as much time as possible with my baby boy ...all of this has kept me pretty busy!!

Well..last week Hudson turned 7 months!! As I say every month, I can't believe how fast he's growing up. He's now pretty mobile..he rolls all over the place to get where he wants to go. He started pushing up a little more so I'm sure he'll be crawling in the next month. He is also finally breaking his first 2 teeth!! The past couple of days both his center, bottom teeth started poking through :) And lucky for us this hasn't really changed his happy mood and he is now only waking up once at night instead of not at all :)

We've been having so much fun watching our little man grow up and develop his amazingly happy personality.

I'm not sure of his exact stats this month, but I think he's pretty close to where he was at 6 months..almost 29 inches long and about 18 pounds. He's growing right out of all his 6-9 month clothes and will soon be wearing all 12 month stuff I imagine!!

Some of Hudson's favorites at 7 months:
**Giggling when daddy's beard touches his face**
**Laughing when Maverick makes noise or licks his face**
**Grabbing anything and everything he can get his hands on**
**Sitting up in the stroller and shopping carts so he can check out the world**
**LIGHTS! He LOVES looking at light fixtures and lights and is constantly looking up**
**Sophie the teething giraffe**
**Jumping in the jumperoo**
**Sitting up in the bath (we still need to get a bath ring or something for this)**

Sorry no pictures yet .. I will update them as soon as I'm at home on the computer that has all the pictures!

6 months ... 1/2 a year already ....

6 months..half a year...where does the time go??!! My baby is growing and changing so much every day. He has learned so much in the last 6 months and I'm enjoying every minute watching him grow. Here are some things he's learned/done in the past month:

-"Scooting" when on his tummy on the floor (he pushes his legs up like he wants to 'army crawl' and then scoots forward)
-Rolling all over the place constantly!
-Teething (one bottom tooth was starting to poke through but went back down for now)
-Become very interested in his toys, especially ones that make noise when you press them!
-Laughing hysterically at Daddy/Maverick and anyone that makes funny faces/dances, etc.
-Started eating many different solid foods (and this boy LOVES to eat...he's gonna be an expensive teenager!!lol)
-Grabbing at everything (toys, hair, clothes, books, blankets..)
-Almost too big for his infant carseat
-Sitting up on his own for about a minute or so
-Grabbing his feet when lying on his back

Here are all of the foods Hudson's tried so far:
-Grains: Rice cereal, Oatmeal
-Fruits: Avocado, Banana, Pears, Nectarines, Applesauce
-Veggies: Yams, Butternut Squash, Peas, Green beans

So far I have made all his baby food homemade except the applesauce and cereals (which I did buy organic). I am having a lot of fun doing this and I love knowing that he's getting food without any additives/preservatives/chemicals. I am going to try to continue to make his food as long as I can and start introducing him to more 'people food' the older he gets, especially once he gets teeth! I figure there's no reason to feed him bland tasteless babyfood when that's not what he'll be eating when he's older, might as well start him young :)