So cute!

L is so cute.  Last Monday we bought him this necklace because on Sunday he was inconsolable.  We were having dinner with the Porters and had to take turns eating dinner because he was just fussy and crying the whole time.  Luckily Gtown is the kind of place where you can go to a store and buy an amber necklace : )  I think it helps, even if I don't believe in it. 

L has a cough.  L has had a cough for 8 weeks.  It's possibly allergies.  It's possibly allergies overlaid with the various minor colds or family has had over the last 6 months.  For a while I was worried that it was pnemonia, but in general he seems fine.  He did have a fever 2 weeks ago, on and off for 1 day.  But B had also had a fever 2 days prior, so I chalked it up to a virus. 

Thanks to the necklace he seems more happy, so I'm less worried about the cough.  But maybe he has asthma. 

Also on the Monday that we got the necklace, he started going up on hands and knees!  He's almost 8 months old and is finally maneuvering into a sitting position and able to balance.  Previously he just rolled around like a ninja. 

secret agent

This little guy is getting so mobile.  He is almost 7 months old and rolls like a pro.  Today he rolled around the floor in the main room and it reminded me of an action film.  I'm hoping to film it and add some sort of stunt music.  He's such a delight and easy going baby.

He's had a bad cough for 4 weeks now.  I keep thinking, maybe it's pneumonia... but thankfully it's just a bad cough.  No fever, no vomiting, diarrhea...  He's got a check up on Monday.

skills

L is so cute.  He has a terrible habit of pulling his blanket over his face.  He's super good at wriggling around so that, no matter how I've tucked things down, he gets some bit of cloth over his face.  Then he spreads his arms like an eagle, unable to get it off his face, and breathes in short gasps.

He is so super duper cute though.  I just love giving him tons of kisses.  B is so in love with him.  I'm so grateful for my children's ability to love one another.

G asks to hold L most often.  It goes in cycles.  Sometimes lP wants to hold him all the time.  G has always wanted to hold L about once every other day.  So in this moment, that is pretty often compared to other kids who are distracted by other interests.  B is newly interested in puzzles.  lP is busy with her work on piano, her assignments etc...  M is busy dreaming of more pet time with the C family. 

It's so sweet having this little boy. 

everybody loves him

All the children love L and ask to hold him often.  It's so sweet that he's loved.  He's learning to laugh a bit.  The children love to touch him and get him to smile.  Their joy in making him happy is awesome.

delicious

I love this baby!  I'm sure I have loved each of my babies.  This is such a sweet season of our lives.  We aren't stressed out about a lot of things, that have stressed us out in the past.  L is our 5th child and he's such an easy baby.   We've been able to "cry train" him as we did with B.  We train him to breath/pant, and when he does we pick him up.  When he cries, we look confused and don't pick him up.  If he doesn't stop crying at the sight of us, we get close and pant.  Then the second he stops, we pick him up and try our best to sooth him.  He's trained, we're trained.  He stops crying when he sees us and does the little pant.  The big kids will tell us if he's doing the pant and we're not close enough to hear it.   It's miraculous.

Having 5 children, and homeschooling becoming a bit more formal, I'm pretty busy.  I can't think of him all the time, and when I do, I am like "Wow, I have this cute baby!"  I finally got a mirror for the car, which I've never had in 11 years of having children.  I kept worrying that I'd forgotten him, and asking the kids if L was in the car.  So now I have a mirror and it's good.

He doesn't smile much, but it's so sweet and delightful when he does. 

so cute!

L is a very sweet baby.  We're already training him to stop crying to get picked up.  We don't bother with any other type of baby training.  But we try pretty hard to teach them that.  We learned with B that it was so nice.

It begins...

He's so cute.