7 Months Old!!

My baby turned 7 moths old today! He is growing up so fast it is hard to believe! I looked at some old pictures of Wyatt at the same age and he and Shane look soooo different! Shane is really tall and skinny compared to Wyatt (who I used to call my little pork chop)! Even Shane's face is long and thin. Wyatt was sitting up by himself at 7 months. Shane isn't even close to doing that, but Wyatt was shaped like a triangle so it was easy for him to sit down on such a wide base!

Besides looking different than the other kids Shane is such a laid back baby compared to them. He just loves everything and everyone. Yesterday I heard Wyatt tell Sam "Sam, Shane likes you a little, but he likes me a lot!" and then Sam said "No!" and him and Wyatt argued about that for a good 10 minutes! Shane really prefers Wyatt over the twins, but that is about the only thing that he has an opinion about! Otherwise he is happy doing anything.

In honor of his birthday today I fed Shane his first jar of baby food! It was a jar of banana baby food. He loved it. He ate from a spoon like he has been doing it forever. I didn't know what to expect from him after Sam's first experience with baby food went sooooo badly, but he was fine! I am hoping to skip right over the whole bottle phase and go right to sippy cups in the next few months. I decided before Shane was even born that he was going to be able to feed himself because the other kids were completely helpless when it came to their own bottles and I was determined not to make that mistake a fourth time. Don't even get me started on my theory about how boys are lazy when it comes to self help skills (and how I think that grown men would still love to be hand fed....) because that is long enough for its own post.

In other news, I made brats and fries for dinner tonight and we were COMPLETELY out of ketchup! Shocking I know especially since John works for a very prominent ketchup-making company, but it's true! After we realized that we didn't have a spec of ketchup for the fries and brats Wyatt kept saying "Daddy, what are we going to do without ANY ketchup? How are we EVER going to eat?" It would have been a great commercial for Heinz!

Tonight Wyatt made a "grocery list" (which is really a list of scribbles and circles) of things that we need for his birthday. He told me that he needed cake, candles, frosting, ice cream, and two presents. He's growing up! I think that he finally understands the whole birthday concept this year. It will be a lot of fun to celebrate his birthday with him this year, but I can't believe that he is turning four in a couple of weeks already! These kids are growing up way to fast!