Silas at 7 months

A bit about what Silas has been up to at 7 months...
1. Making friends

Lucas and Silas at Ambleside Park

His monkey (Silas loves eating his face or tail, and squeals with delight every time his monkey is close by!)

His good friend Lorena who is trying to teach Silas to roll and how to produce teeth, but to no avail!  This was during his latest camping expedition to Cultus Lake!

2. Eating and Drinking

Cereal and peas, carrots and squash, baby crackers and applesauce.  Silas' favourites so far seem to be avocado and banana together.  He is SUPER good at making a SUPER mess for mommy to clean up!

He also enjoys eating paper.  (Btw, doesn't his hair look red in this photo?)

He hasn't quite figured out how to drink water- although he enjoys holding his cup and chewing on it!

3. Swimming

Loves his bath, splashing etc.  Although, it has to be SUPER warm.  Can't convince him to go in any lakes as of yet, or in any spray parks.  

But loves his backyard pool.  (his hair is curly in this picture!)

Wrinkly toes from being in his kiddie pool too long!

4. Enforced Tummy Time

Silas is STILL not rolling, despite repeated encouragements and persistently enforced tummy time.  He gets fed up wanting to reach things, smashes his face into the carpet, and cries.  Oh boy.  Here he is doing 'tummy time' on Grandpa!

Tummy time again mom?!

5. Other Activities and Accomplishments

• drooling
• says 'da-da-da-da' pretty well
• re-inserts his own soother!  (sometimes upside down)
• holds books and turns their pages
• naps, almost like clockwork, after every 2 hours of being awake
• sits up like a pro-star
• gets bored easily
• poops like an overachiever
• is a little bit cuddly and a bit stranger shy after he wakes up
• moves all over his crib while sleeping
• has found his boy body parts!

6. Things he finds hysterically funny

• any loud and sudden sounds including (but not limited to): sneezes, coughs, beeps, boops, 'baaahs' and any other sounds his mom can come up with
• eating the couch cushions
• stopping mid feed to put his fingers in his mommy's mouth or up her nose
• peak-a-boo, in general
• being thrown around, put upside down, or any roller-coaster-like motion
• riding on his dad's shoulders
• grabbing faces or sucking on them
• wacking tables with his hands
• kicking, flailing, fidgeting or smacking his mommy 

7. What causes him to have dramatic crying fits 

• whenever anything he wants is taken away
• when he can't have his spoon to hold and chew on at the end of feeding
• when he's bored
• when he's awakened prematurely, or moved while sleeping
• when he's overtired (that is, after his 'hyper-everything-is-hilarious-over-tired' phase)
• when I leave the room
• the vacuum cleaner
• when he is frustrated with tummy time

7 months kiddo.  Each day is getting better!