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7 months

April 24, 2014: Titus is 7 months old

Right at the 7 month mark, Titus began to move like crazy. He all of a sudden learned to sit up, crawl, do yoga moves, and became really interested in food. At 7 1/2 months he's now pulling himself up and trying to get at everything which means no more leaving him alone in a room anymore. He's still our sweet happy boy and although I didn't know it was possible, we are growing more in love with this little guy every day!

• Wearing 9 month clothes.
• Sitting Up.
• Crawling!
• Pulling up.
• Standing with help.
• First trip to California to visit Aunty Karen, Uncle Brian, and cousins (also first airplane trip with just mommy!)
• Sometimes sleeping through the night but more often waking up 1-2 times.
• Trying lots of new foods. So far he's eating most things except still not a fan of bananas or avacado. Likes olives, steak, eggs, kale, green beans, peas, carrots, etc. Loves any time he gets a little taste of sugar!!
• His hair finally laid down on its own. No more mohawk, but still strawberry blonde.
• In the nursery every week at church now.
• Loves playing with daddy and laughing at the doggies.

7 months out-takes:

This kid was not very pleased that I put him back in his crib for photos so soon after waking up this morning so there were more tears than smiles happening. We'll save both for posterity.

And yes, I actually climbed in the crib to see if it would help the smiles. It worked a little bit...

Addition

You may or may not know that we are adding onto our house right now. We bought our little 2 bedroom 1 bathroom house two summers ago with dreams to add on a master bedroom and bathroom. It took a while to get going on the project (partly because of the headache it is to get permits to do everything!!), but now we are going at it in full force and its all coming together. Here are some photos of what's been happening around here:

From a few weeks ago when the framing was going up.

This will be our master bedroom. Our bed will be centered between the windows.

This is taken from the window side in the above photos. You're looking at our closet here and the door to our bathroom.

This is a view of the bathroom from the bedroom. Of course, soon you will only see a door from this angle as the insulation and dry wall goes in next! Shower on the left, tub on the right.

 Our nice big shower at the end and the future placement of our double sinks and linen closet on the right.

Tub and toilet next to it.

This is the laundry room. You are looking into our bedroom on the other side but the access to the laundry room will be from the kitchen. My laundry is currently in the basement so I'm really excited about this addition.

And the changes are invading into other areas of the house too! I couldn't find a good before picture for this section of the kitchen, but our back (main) door used to be where the windows are and we took down a wall next to where the stroller is in the photo. It used to be a narrow entrance into a little mudroom with a small nook on left where the new door is now.

Before on the outside of the house. The patio area on the right is now the addition.

After (Same view as above)

This is from a few weeks ago.

The house currently with the new door.

Again I don't have a good before photo on this one, but this is where we removed a chimney that was going through the middle of our kitchen. It was all framed in before. We are hoping to eventually knock this wall out and open things up between the kitchen and living area.

And we finally removed the front porch! Here is a before shot.

side view of the porch when we bought the house.

another porch view from when we bought the house.

And now its gone! No more 1950's drive-in feel. Now the 1950's bushes need a little work still though (as in I hope a lot of them will be leaving soon too).

And if you didn't think there was enough going on around our house, Chris and I recently tackled a little bathroom paint and trim project. This is a before.

And this is the after with new lighter paint and wainscoting. I love it!

6 Months

March 24, 2014: Titus is 6 months old today.

• Weighs in at 15lb. 4oz. and is 26.5" long. Still in the tall and skinny category.
• Wearing 9 month clothes.
• Favorite new food: Sweet Potatoes.
• Adding in new foods: loving some bites of scrambled eggs in the morning.
• People always comment on his red mohawk and his smiles.
• The red mohawk sticks up straight all on its own.
• Still loving to jump jump jump!
• We have transitioned to 2-3 naps a day and a bedtime of 7 p.m. Sleeping through the night can be done, but its still not every night. Normally we are up at least once together for a quick snack. He sleeps anywhere from 7 to 9 in the morning.
• Loves giggling at his Wolfie dog.
• Working on Crawling! At the beginning of the month he was rolling to get places. At 6.5 months he is doing some scooting as well as rocking and launching to get at things within his reach.

5 Months

February 24, 2014: Titus is 5 months old today.

• He is rolling all over the place.
• He is wearing 6 month clothes.
• He loves to laugh and smile and interact with people. Definitely a social kid.
• The Johnny-Jump Up is his favorite.
• He has discovered a couple "new" things. His feet and his dog Wolfie.
• We're working on the screaming he's added to the naptime routine.
• Loves to wiggle.
• Sleeps from 8-8 with a couple (or more) wake ups in between. BUT I know he can do a straight 12 hours since he's done it twice before.
• Starting on solid foods. Likes sweet potatoes, hates rice cereal and oatmeal cereal.
• Went swinging at the park for the first time. It was a hit!

Months One Through Four

We've sure been doing a lot of growing around here!

 The Many Faces of Titus Anthony

4 Months

January 24, 2014: Titus is 4 months old today.

• Weighs in at 13 lb. 3 oz., 25" long = Tall and Skinny boy.
• Sleeps from 10:30 to 4:30 on most nights and after eating continues to sleep until 7 and then 9.
• Experienced First Snow. Wasn't that impressed but maybe next year.
• Laughing and smiling more and more.
• Starting to use Exersaucer and Johnny-Jump Up.
• Rolling both ways.