7 months - Rory

Rory is 7 months old today and things are starting to change.  We have started down the food path now and she is becoming a good eater.  When she is really hungry she actually yells at me if I don't scoop the food in fast enough.  She has hit most of the major foods and now we are starting into mixing things together.  We still haven't done protein, and will probably start those in a few weeks.  Rory is not quite crawling yet, but she can sure roll and scoot herself around.  She is getting frustrated that she can't move as fast as she wants and kicks and yells at that point.  

The other exciting news is that she got her first tooth today!  It is the bottom left tooth and it is just starting to pop through.  Both bottom teeth appear to be quite swollen so I am assuming they will both surface this week sometime.  This explains the cranky past 2 nights and looks like we may have a rough week of teething ahead of us.  

Overall she is moving along with the same things that Cason did right about the same time which makes things pretty easy to predict as we kept the blog and a food journal for him back in the day.  Here are some 7 month pictures.

chomping on the pacifier easing her teething pain

Hay bale jumping and pumpkins

We had a busy weekend and now we are gearing up for the new work week (and new job #2 - Steve's).  On Friday we made it out with our old CBIZ coworkers to have dinner and margaritas at Aqui.  Saturday was our typical swimming morning.  Cason is doing amazingly well and it is now officially a lot of fun to go with him swimming.  As I recap it so I will remember when we go down this path with Rory; lesson 1 was to be expected - hesitant and crying, lesson 2 was smiles and jumps, lesson 3 was the first head under water = explosion of tears and tantrums, which then meant lessons 4-8 were pretty awful.  Though Mommy was determined, and no matter how much misery we went through together (included every excuse under the sun to not go, fake potty runs, screaming "I wanna go home" over and over, even pinching twice!!!) we made it to happy swim lessons.  I think my suborn determination and a little help from my friend Dora as a reward finally got us there.  Our swim teacher Terrance is amazed at how different Cason is from yesterday to a month earlier.  Today Cason sang all the songs, went under the water about 30 times without a whimper even smiling, swam to and from a platform, can climb out of the pool by himself, wore fins for the first time, and even dove for rings on the platform getting 3 on the first try.  Yay Cason!

Today we made it out to the pumpkin patch.  Unfortunately it was roasting out there with a stale 90+ degrees which made you feel like you were baking.  It rivaled to a warm Arizona early fall day.  Though the boys (we went with our friends the Hodges) had a great time.  The highlight was the train of course and jumping in the hay.  Cason wants to go back again to jump some more.

Fall apple picking

Well the nicest thing about my new job is that there is no longer "busy season"!!!!  Now don't get me wrong I am still busy with it being a new job, but I don't have to work crazy hours on the weekends to prepare or finish up an audit right now.  That leave me with time on the weekends to experience my favorite season of the year.  Fall!  It has been 5 years since I have had a quiet fall and I am taking advantage of it.  Well "quiet" with two kids under the age of 3 doesn't exist, especially with our chatter bug Cason, but at least it isn't work craziness that is keeping us busy.

So we were able to take a trip down to Watsonville to go apple picking today.  I did this a few times while living in Boston and knew Cason would have a good time picking his own apples and running around the farm.   We ended up with 10lbs of apples, but the way Cason and Steve go through apples I am not too worried about wasting them.  I might actually get to eat some of them this week.  We already ate 4 today just as snacks.