Brandon: The eighth month (July 2011)

At seven months, according to my measurements Brandon weighed 20 pounds 5 ounces and was 28 ¼” inches tall.  Brandon generally sleeps from 8:30 PM to 7:00 AM each night and has 2 naps a day now (one in the morning around 9:00 AM and one in the afternoon around 1:00 PM).  Brandon eats solids now twice a day and nurses five times a day.  Brandon loves pureed bananas and oatmeal, applesauce, Mum Mum rice crackers, and cereal puffs.  He can now pick up finger foods with his hands and put it in his mouth. 

Picking rice puffs up with his hands

Playing with toys at Sara's house for a 4th of July BBQ

At Sara's 4th of July BBQ

Happy Fourth of July!

Me and Brandon and Brooke and Logan on 4th of July

Brandon got his first tooth this month as well.  He can commando crawl now around the room and is getting fast.  With his mobility, he is also getting into things more often and we had to baby proof our house.  We joined a weekend play group and met some new friends through that.  Brandon learned how to say “da da” and “ga ga” and even “ma ma” a few times.  He loves playing with his jumperoo and his trucks.  By the end of the month, Brandon learned how to pull himself up to a sit while he was crawling. 

Brandon in his jumperoo

Sean and I at the brew fest on our 5 year anniversary

Tory came up from San Francisco for the Brew Festival

We went wine tasting and Brandon loved the wine glass

This month, my parents came back from Turkey and we visited them for a long weekend and took Brandon to the park.  Brandon loves going to the park and swinging and going down the slide.  He developed a love for my parent’s Labrador Callie and Callie loved Brandon.  It was so cute watching him chase her around the house.  We got him a little walker that looks like a car and he would chase her around the house on the hard wood floors.  My mom and I also took Brandon swimming for the first time at the Corvallis pool.  Brandon loved swimming.

Brandon getting squirmy at the tea room

Brandon swinging at Cloverland  Park

Brandon in his walker

Brandon and Callie his new friend