Seasons of Life: Parker

Today Parker is 7 months old! Our little bundle of joy is just that - Joyful! He's constantly smiling and laughing, almost always wakes up in a happy mood just squealing and cooing and recently babbling. Parker is constantly rolling over, and stretches to reach things. He now likes to get on his hands and knees and rocks back and forth, so crawling is in the very near future. He's also trying to pull himself up on things so I foresee the crib being lowered very soon as well.

Parker just loves watching Mack and wants to play with him all the time, whether that's with his cars, legos or stuffed animals Parker is right there trying to do whatever Mack is doing. It's such an interesting perspective when you have 2 little ones and the younger learns so much faster because there's an older child they are learning from. Developmentally there are a few differences in the boys such as Parker rolls around a lot and it appears that he may crawl sooner whereas Mack hated being on his tummy and was carried a lot more being an only child.

Schedule is still pretty routine with Parker although naps are now a little shorter but the fact he consistently sleeps 11-12 hours through the night, I won't complain. He's starting to have 3 meals a day of baby food in addition to his 4 bottles of formula and 1 bottle of juice. He's not to keen on the juice at this point and peaches are not a favorite. He tends to pucker up his face and will spit up a lot after having peaches so at this point we've eliminated them from his diet. Everything else, he seems to like.

Took our first trip to Kansas City to visit family over spring break. Parker did quite well on the plane and during the entire visit. He did seem to be a little more fussy at times but I believe it was just due to being off schedule and out of the ordinary. Overall though we had a great trip.