7 months with Jase

Dear Jase,

7 months! Time keeps flying by and you're getting so big... and yet.... no rent check? Perhaps we need to go over how rent works?

Nevertheless, you've been a lot of fun this month:

• After having the flu for week, I went in to check on you in the middle of the night because you were crying. While I rubbed your back and changed your diaper you smiled at me like I was a f-ing rockstar - best mom moment to date.
• Firsts: high chair at a restaurant, experience with grass/flowers, cereal puffs (not a fan but the dogs are onboard), swing, bruise (for future reference this not only looks uncomfortable it leaves evidence of it...       
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• You can: roll over on the reg, scooch to get where you want, stall bedtime like a champ, put your foot in your mouth (this was a big day for you), reach for what you want, bang on things to make noise
• You love: ceiling fans - you are absolutely obsessed with them, grabbing the book at story time, your feet, grabbing dad's beard, grabbing mom's necklaces, carrots and bananas, going on walks, being held and back rubs

Onto your future therapy notes:

• I put your toy together in the wrong order - which means I spent the next 2 hours trying to fix it before I threw it away. You'll have to do without.
• I made you wake up from a nap so I could take you home from daycare.
• While trying to capture a really sweet photo of you sleeping... I accidentally dropped the phone and it hit you in the face.
• I felt so bad that I laughed during your shots... like a maniac... I'm that guy.

This month's trauma for us:

• I swear I'm slowly developing a bald spot from your hair-pulling extravaganzas.
• As, I'm convinced, a bedtime stall tactics you vommed all over yourself and the bed seconds after I put you down.
• We banked on you sleeping through an impromptu dinner out... you didn't sleep through... you pooped. And we didn't have a diaper.
• I thought you peed through an outfit so I grabbed it to take it off. It wasn't pee...

It's been a busy but fun month. This month also marked when we officially retired your swings by loaning them out to a couple of friends. It hit kind of hard because you're changing so much so fast - but boy are you fun!

We love you!

Mommy and Daddy

Progression of a Jase smile (not pictured: mom acting like a fool)