Big Brothers

You are so lucky to have 3 great big brothers.  Blake lately has been wanting to hold you all the time.  He will ask me if he can hold you and I always say, "If Spencer wants you to hold him that's fine."  Sometimes you do and sometimes you just would rather he play with you.  He'll hold you and then laugh and giggle when you grab his hair or slobber on him.  He is also very good at playing with you and sets up towers for you to knock down.  Such cuties!

Cute boy

Not so Sleepy

You slept great for the first 4 months.  After a while you were sleeping 6-7 hours a night in your rock n play but then you started sitting up in it and so we had to move you to your crib.  You also started getting teeth and that's where the sleeping ended.  I thought it was because of teeth but after 3 1/2 months of rocking you while you squirmed and being up all night with you in the rocker.  You were waking up every 1-2 hours at night.  Brad would take you for a walk at 10 at night to get you to settle down and fall asleep.  He took you out in the backpack or in the stroller and you would sleep for a couple hours when you got home.  You would only nap in your carseat in the car.  We were getting so frustrated and weren't sure what was up.  I had figured out when you were a month old that if I drank milk you barfed like crazy.  I attributed it to an allergy to milk but it turns out when we looked into it further you have reflux.  Brad was looking at all the symptoms online and both of us were like well obviously he has it.  Which is why you slept so much better when you were upright.  We found a natural medicine to give you and the results were amazing.  You were able to settle down and just lay in my arms while I rocked you, you slept longer through the night and last night you slept from 10 to 6:30.  Amazing what sleep can do!  I'm so glad we figured this out and that you are a much more content little baby. 

7 months old

I can't believe you are 7 months old, time has flown by!  You are still the sweetest baby, always happy and enjoying everything!  You love your brothers and smile and laugh when they play with you.  Braden loves to give you shoulder rides even though I'm not to thrilled about it and constantly tell him not to hold you up like that.  You love being on his shoulders so you can eat his hair.  I don't think I've mentioned that yet but you are so fascinated with hair, you love it.  You have pulled my hair so much that I now have layers in the front even though when you were born I had hair all the same length, a big thank you to you for the unwanted layers you little stinker.  When we were at the cabin you were crying while Mellonee, Melissa, and I drove to the lake with you.  Finally Melissa just laid her head down in your car seat and you went crazy over her hair.  You quit crying and just played with her hair.  You love to have it in your hands and it's all tangled up and then you put it in your mouth.  We are at Mellonee's house this week and she has these pillows with long fringe on them and you sit and talk to them and pull on the fringe and are just in love with them.  It makes me laugh so much!
You are starting to like food.  I couldn't really get you to eat much baby pureed food but decided to try regular food.  You ate eggs, barley soup, grapes, and half a banana this week.  You are loving being able to eat the same thing that the rest of us are eating.  I'm loving that you are finally eating since it seemed so crazy that you weren't interested yet.
You aren't such a great sleeper and have been waking up all night.  You end up in bed with dad and I.  Plus you are a night owl.  You haven't been going to bed until 11pm and then you sleep in your own bed until 2am and then you are in my bed until you wake up.  You aren't great at naps and just sleep 20 minutes here and there.
You got some more teeth and are now up to 8 teeth and you love to rub your tongue against your teeth so it's in and out of your mouth all the time.  Sometimes you smile with your tongue hanging out, it cracks me up. 

You started crawling and also can sit yourself up.  You love exploring and playing with toys. You also love swimming, dad dunked you under the water and you weren't so suew about that but you didn't cry.   

Spencer and Grandma Kathee

We went up to my mom's house to watch your brothers with their swimming lessons.  Grandma Kathee offered to keep you at her house while we took all the kids into swimming.  When we got back we found you all snuggled up asleep rocking outside by the pond.  So sweet!

My sweet boy

Oh I just love those eyes and your sweet smile. 

Toy Box

You were a little cranky tonight so I put you in your little toy bin with some toys.  You loved it!