6 and 7 months

Oh, my sweet son!!

As you can see from the date I missed a letter last month. I wish I had a really good excuse, but mostly I just hit a bit of a rough patch Mommy-wise at the end of your 5th month and it took me a few weeks to get back to normal.

It turns out that it doesn't matter how sweet and wonderful you are as a baby ( which, by the way, you remain the sweetest, best tempered baby ever) its still a bit rough to be outnumbered by small people! Particularly when your Daddy is gone a lot for work and then goes out of town for 5 days-which is exactly what happened at the end of April. In fact, it seemed to me that you might actually seem to notice when only one parent is around in the evening because that seemed to be when you had a rough time going down at night and you would cry and cry! Still not sure what that's about, but you've definitely had some trouble sleeping at night the last two months!

But, lets forget about that! Let's focus on your days you started to sit up at the end of your 6th month and heading into your 7th month. And now that you're 7 months old you're a champion sitter! You hardly even need pillows around you any more! You've even learned how to transition from sitting into laying on your stomach with mostly ease and grace...but sometimes you DO face plant and have to have a bit of a cry! Poor buddy!

And while you mostly have ZERO desire to be mobil at all, there have been a handful of times that I have found you not where I left you, on your blanket, but a few feet away-usually playing with one of your siblings non-baby-sanctioned toys.
Seriously. I pray on the DAILY that Jesus will protect you from tiny lego pieces or some other choking hazard. It seems nearly impossible to protect you from all these tiny plastic toys that seem to procreate here in our home. I'm not so secretly glad that you have found little to no interest in crawling as of yet! Much safer for all!

We also introduced some "solid" foods into your diet when you were 6 months old because your doctor thought maybe that was your nighttime problem- you were hungry! However, you mostly spent a whole month turning your nose up at various baby foods. It wasn't until you were about to turn 7 months when we had a quick visit to Nacogdoches and Papa insisted on feeding you oyster crackers that you decided you didn't mind eating. You for sure really enjoyed practicing your "pincher" skills and picking up the pieces of cracker.

Of course it would be that the only thing you seem to consistently keep down in cheerios. All teeny tiny pieces of fruit and veggies that I have tried to give you, tend to be thrown up about the second or third piece because you inevitably gag. Annnnnyway, you're clearly not starving to death so we'll just keep "practicing" and hope you get the hang of this eating thing eventually!

Toward the end of your 6th month we had three weeks in a row of travel-first to Nacogdoches for Great Steve's fathers funeral. Then we had a lovely family beach weekend at Port Aransas the following weekend- I realized before we left that it was the first time we had been to the beach since Tabitha was even born! So it was a first time at the beach for both of you! It was a BLAST and you seemed to really enjoy splashing around in the water and digging you fists into the sand! I was happily surprised that you really didn't try to eat much sand-which was my biggest concern, and you patiently dealt with a lot of lack of sleep since you decided you'd much rather just NOT nap then to take a nap on the beach-much to my disappointment. I guess Wilson Children just aren't meant to sleep on the beach! I just figured if any of my kids were going to do it, it would be you!
Luckily, you're pretty sweet and chill even when you've skipped a nap or two and you remained the best thing on the whole beach-just about every person who walked by us would stop and remark on the adorable baby in the floppy beach hat. ( you are, by FAR the fairest baby I've had! I honestly don't know what to do about this white white skin! I'm obsessed with keeping you covered up! haha!)


The very next weekend after our little getaway we had to drive to Nacogdoches again because there was no one to bring Daddy back from delivering your Uncle Josh's belongings to him. This meant you and your siblings were subjected to 10 hours in the car in the course of 48 hours. Thankfully there were some cuddles with Spicy, Papa, Aunt Anna and Uncle Ryan stuck quickly into the middle to make it a little more enjoyable-but honestly, your traveling situation was less then ideal! You're old enough to need entertainment but not old enough to watch cartoons like your siblings do when they get bored in the car! It was definitely not your favorite to have to be in the car AGAIN for the third weekend in a row, and you were also suffering from your first ear infection- but even then you only cried for the last bits of the trip coming and going and mostly when you got upset you just practiced your various consonant sounds at top volume for large lengths of time without getting into full blown cry mode....definitely can't fault you for that! I felt like complaining a bit myself! hahaha!

So, I think that catches us up! Looking back, you've grown and learned a lot over the last two months and it blows my little mommy heart out of the water that you're officially over half a year old! You remain the sweetest baby with the sweetest smiles and I cannot imagine life without you!
( You're by far my favorite child right now, don't tell your siblings)

Love, Mommy