He's still not doing 'real' crawling, but this kid moves so fast. If I put him down at one end of the sofa, he can do a crazy amount of movement that gets him to the other end in about 20 seconds. He also loves to stand. He won't take a step yet, but he enjoys being tall!
I really enjoy watching his personality grow. I love coddling a tiny baby, but there's something magical when a baby starts to really know who you are, who they are, and starts to put it all together. It's one thing for a tiny baby to want mommy to nurse, it's another for an older baby to seek out your face and just light up in joy just to see you're there.
With that said, Will is miserable right now and ONLY wants his mommy at every moment - including those times when he's finally willing to nap or sleep. His two big top teeth are coming through now, and they're causing him a lot of grief. He's always gnawing angrily, or sometimes he quick sticks his hand in his mouth and screams. I can't wait for those teeth to be out! Of course, that means it'll be pain for me as he bites me (every time a new tooth comes in, he has to get a 'feel' for it and bites down while nursing) but that's better than hearing him cry in pain with his big crocodile tears.
Roughly, about 90% of the women on my facebook are now currently pregnant. I expected it would happen, as every year I'm not pregnant, everyone I know is. I seem to ALWAYS miss that tiny window where everyone is getting pregnant. I get pregnant when everyone I know has newborns! lol. But of course, all the pregnancy posts makes me think about what our future plans are. After all, we started TTC when Katie was only 7 months old, which Will is now.
However, I have no plans to be TTC any time soon, even though baby fever already flares now and then. I really enjoy just focusing on Katie and Will for a while longer. I'm hoping to keep my cycles away until at least next January, and would like to NTNP, or maybe TTC, starting around May. That would skip all the winter baby months and start me out in early spring due dates. Will would be around 17 months by then, which is just short of what Katie was when we got pregnant with Will. Hopefully by then we can have a better grip on our finances too so that it'll be easier to afford another one. Especially because I keep thinking that Katie is my Disney Princess, but Mattie will be my Juicy Couture Baby. I feel like throughout my pregnancy, I'm going to have to tuck some money away in case it's a girl so I could buy a few little Juicy things for her. It actually makes me hope a bit that the next one would be a boy, because my boy plans are much cheaper! lol
But anyway, I'm really enjoying the feeling of not being pregnant at the moment. If I could have another baby without the pregnancy, then I could probably manage handling that. But the pregnancy? I'm willing to hold off a while to not go through that again right now! Thinking of my pregnancies is the perfect damper to a baby fever. It puts that fire right out!
Here's Will at 7 months:
Ahhhh, he's talking?!? Not so fast, big guy! Also - Mattie? Short for...Matilda? ;)
ReplyDeleteRight?? I keep telling him to slow down but he won't listen. He has Katie to mimic, so he's reaching milestones earlier than I'm used to. He already seems so much like a toddler, I don't know where my baby went!
ReplyDeleteYes, Mattie is after my full blooded Italian great grandmother who was a great cook. She'll also be our Cinderella! We're pretty much 99.9% set on her name, but as with everything, I have the backup name that we came up with for another future girl, and we still have the girl name we were going to use for Will had he been a girl. But we've both loved Mattie since last summer.