7 Months Old

OK, so Colden's 7-month-old post is two weeks too late because Colden had an ear infection and Mike had pneumonia the week that he turned 7 months.  Both boys had temperatures of 102 degrees, so both boys needed a little extra TLC that week.  Mommy snuggles to the rescue!

The bunny picture therefore had to be temporarily postponed.  But don't worry, once Colden was back to his smiley old self, we sandwiched him between the two bunnies once again.

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After Colden and Mike were feeling better, we decided to celebrate by taking Colden to the park and putting him in a real swing for the first time.

At first he wasn't so sure...

But once he started swinging, he loved it!

Over the past few weeks, Colden has mastered the skill of sitting up, as you can see in this video:

When we come into his room in the morning, we find him like this:

But now that he can sit without any problem, he has moved on to standing.  All he wants to do is stand!  He will grab onto anything that is within reach and try to stand up.  His new favorite activity is to use whoever is sitting nearby as a jungle gym:

He has gotten so good at standing that he prefers standing and looking down at the books during story time, rather than lying down and looking up:

Believe it or not, we have already lowered the crib two notches down from the highest setting.  It looks like we may have to lower it again.  We also had to put on the crib rail protectors so that he didn't leave teeth marks in the wood of his crib.