{"id":572,"date":"2014-04-13T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/13\/sam-is-seven-months-old"},"modified":"2014-04-13T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T23:04:00","slug":"sam-is-seven-months-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2014\/04\/13\/sam-is-seven-months-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam is Seven Months Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, did this month go really fast?\u00a0 Sam is already seven months old.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/13833370213\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\" title=\"Sam is Seven Months by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam is Seven Months\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7129\/13833370213_e3fc665efb.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>He loves baths, loves jumping, loves Jack, loves tickling, loves swings, and LOVES food.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I can express how much Sam loves food.\u00a0 If he sees one of us eating he groans and growls and lunges for our food.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t feed him by spoon fast enough for his liking.\u00a0 He can slurp a whole squeezie in under a minute.\u00a0 He likes it when I give him solids to gnaw on (celery, arrowroot cookies, apple, french fry, bread crust, etc).\u00a0 But I have to be right there because he will keep shoveling it in even if his mouth is full.\u00a0 He can&#8217;t really chew (still only two teeth), but he will mush it with his jaws as much as possible.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/13833718174\" title=\"Sam is Seven Months by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam is Seven Months\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3785\/13833718174_9d20424068.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Not much has changed in his movement.\u00a0 He shows no interest in the crawl position, but can flail around the ground to reach what he wants.\u00a0 Tummy time is worthless now because he flips as soon as I put him down.\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/13833387053\" title=\"Sam is Seven Months by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam is Seven Months\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7359\/13833387053_49d1da7e27.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/13833714914\" title=\"Sam is Seven Months by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam is Seven Months\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7132\/13833714914_95386da210.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>He prefers sitting up and will hold a crunch position forever until you assist him.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/13833710564\" title=\"Sam is Seven Months by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam is Seven Months\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7126\/13833710564_c27a78d33d.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week he has starting babbling with proto-words.\u00a0 I adore those garbled simple syllables.\u00a0 I also adore this derpy picture.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/13833704304\" title=\"Sam is Seven Months by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam is Seven Months\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7039\/13833704304_0d4f52871a.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His fine motor control is coming along though.\u00a0 He&#8217;s getting better at manipulating objects, orienting them the way he wants them.\u00a0 He&#8217;s between raking and pincher grasp, but he can pick up little puffs and get them in his mouth. <\/p>\n<p>He regularly goes to bed around 7.\u00a0 He will sleep until 4 or 5 in the morning without needing to eat.\u00a0 If he is teething or having other problems I have to get up to give him the pacifier again, sometimes hourly (last week was bad).\u00a0 But it seems like most of the time he can go all night with just the one waking.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/13833370475\" title=\"Sam is Seven Months by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam is Seven Months\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7434\/13833370475_24408572fb.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/13833358625\" title=\"Sam is Seven Months by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam is Seven Months\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7059\/13833358625_1cb7b9cd72.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Naps are tough.\u00a0 Because he is the second child, I don&#8217;t plan my day around his sleep schedule like we did with Jack.\u00a0 Sadly he has to be carted off to errands and classes, so his naps are a mess.\u00a0 Generally he goes down 1-2 hours after waking, cat naps during car trips mid day, and depending on how that went he will do either one or two afternoon naps.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a trooper about it though.\u00a0 I love you, Sammy! <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/13833377503\" title=\"Sam is Seven Months by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam is Seven Months\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7410\/13833377503_14a9e21e67.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, did this month go really fast?\u00a0 Sam is already seven months old. He loves baths, loves jumping, loves Jack, loves tickling, loves swings, and LOVES food.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think I can express how much Sam loves food.\u00a0 If he sees one of us eating he groans and growls and lunges for our food.\u00a0 I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}