7 Months

We are having a fun summer with Jack!  Here he is enjoying his first taste of Iowa sweet corn. 

It's good to be an Iowa baby!

He thinks he should be able to eat anything now.  Like blonde brownies.  Maybe next summer, Jack!

(with Grandma Carol)

This was his first time at the pool.  He was a little overwhelmed at first with all of the splashing kids, but as long as he had this stingray in his mouth, he was happy.

Playing with his cousins, Esme & Annalise.  They are so sweet to him.  One night when they were playing with him and he was getting crabby they looked at us adults and told us that he needed some big arms to hold him.  Cute!

Esme took these shots of Jack sleeping in the pool. 

And don't worry, I highlighted my hair shortly after this:).

A little Rummelhart family picnic one nice Monday night out at Lake MacBride.

Four generations!

Smooch, smooch!

Updates:

• Jack can scoot around a bit, mostly going backwards.  He can easily get across a room in a few minutes.
• He LOVES sitting.  He will sit forever and just play with whatever I give him.  I know this won't last long!
• The other day in the kitchen Jack looked up at me and said "MumMum".  Who knows if he was really saying Mama, but I got so excited and got down on the ground with him and his face looked so proud.  I had also thought I heard him say "hi" once or twice but thought I was being a crazy mom.  When Grandma Carol was watching him last week so told me that she swore she heard him say "hi" numerous time.  I think he can make it official and start bragging that he's a talker!
• Jack really likes walks in his stroller and always has his little toes resting up on the car seat attachment bar.  People eating outside of the restaurants downtown always comment on the little tootsies as we walk by.
• Jack has had some sleep regression and has been getting up to eat once each night for the last month.  I think some of our traveling and shifting of sleep schedules may be to blame.  Or maybe he just misses his mama and wants a 10 minute feeding/cuddle session before getting a few more hours of sleep!  It's been fun Jack, but I'm okay with you sleeping 12 hours straight again if you're up for it.
• Speaking of eating, I can only nurse Jack up in his rocking chair in his room.  Otherwise he gets so distracted by Andy's voice or looking around for Andy if we're in our bedroom, etc.  This boy really loves his Dada!

 

Boji Babies!

We were lucky to be able to spend 6 days up in Okoboji over the 4th.  This meant lots and lots of cousin time from Jack and Nico.  Here they are in my Nana & Grandpa's backyard one morning.

(This is a classic Nico face right before he darts off somewhere!)

Such a sweet boy!

Jack standing with a little assistance at 6 1/2 months old!

And an expert sitter!

I wish this picture wasn't fuzzy.  Nico is the most edible toddler I know!

Jack getting a good belly laugh from his Auntie.

We also took the boys out on the boat and we did a little tubing.  Jack laid like this the whole time.  I guess the rocking really relaxed him!

            We should have took a family picture before I did some extreme tubing and getting major boat hair!

Another after bedtime snapshot:)

That didn't stop Nico though!  He knows how to live it up in Okoboji!

Jack Jack with his Uncle Tyler

And a great shot of Jack and my dad the day before the 4th.  It was so nice to share Jack with all of his extended family!

(Desiree has a lot more pictures which she'll post soon.)

Nom Nom

When Jack first started eating cereal, he wasn't that in to it.  I would try feeding him a few bites every few days.  After about 2 weeks, he got the hang of it.  I guess he wanted more exciting stuff than rice cereal!  Here he is in his high chair from his Great Grandma Freida.  It's an old, beautiful high chair and our little guy looks so cute in it.  Theres so much baby stuff out there that it's kind of nice to see that something they used 100 years ago still gets the job done today! 

We should have known better.  We gave Jack a few sips from our cups and now he wants a sip everytime!  At least he's learning to drink from a straw and cup nice and early.  He can even drink from my camelback water bottle where you have to bite down and suck at the same time on the straw to get anything out.  Impressive!

And he does get a little water in a sippy cup sometimes too.  There is no valve so it does get a little wet!

These are the foods that Jack has tried in the past three weeks:

Rice cereal, oatmeal, bananas, canteloup, blueberries, peas, pears, apples, green beans, carrots, vanilla yogurt and tonight his Grandma Carol gave him a lick of a popsicle!  Now he's getting really into tasting everything.  Andy and I both aren't picky eaters at all so I always said that I hope our children aren't picky or I'll have no sympathy for them!