Wallace Family, Party of Four: too. many. pictures.

I guess that's what happens when you take ten days off of blogging. I don't know what happened, but suddenly ten days have passed and I haven't posted anything. We have been busy - and we had a grandma visit, which is always exciting.

The weekdays are always a blur; I dread Tuesdays, and then I look up and it's Friday morning. I guess that's a good thing - hopefully Jayden feels the same way!

Jayden is growing up and getting stronger every day. He sits up pretty well on his own now; we can't leave him unattended yet, but we don't have to hold him up either. He still won't crawl or even spend more than maybe a minute or two on his stomach (and only if I lay next to him preventing him from rolling over and distract him), but he can maneuver himself closer to toys and other things he wants to grab. And oh lord can he grab. Anything that's within reach of him is his: pens, clean bottles, spoons, cell phones, water bottles, literally anything he can see, he wants to touch. It's kind of amazing, but also kind of scary. The other day we were getting Jasmine's food and I was holding him and I let the bowl of food get a little too close to his hand. He immediately grabbed a handful of dog food. Luckily I caught him before any of it made it to his mouth! (although I've heard from friends that later in life kids and dogs sometimes share food back and forth . . . I guess it's not the worst thing he could try to eat)

Today he is SEVEN months which is awesome. Over the last couple of weeks it has just been so fun to hang out with him. He laighs regularly (sometimes even when I don't do anything, which makes me feel a little self-conscious; apparently me looking at him - or him looking at me - is enough to crack him up). He explores everything and he LOVES his doggy.

This past weekend my mom (Grandma Barb) was visiting. It was the end of her spring break and she squeezed us in at the end of her trip to Albuquerque. It was great to see her, and she even let Carmen and me have a mini date night!

I don't have pictures from every one of the last ten days, but I do have a TON of pictures. So, without further adieu, enjoy the sampling of Jayden photos:

Sitting up wearing his polos. :)

Mmmm dinner. Thanks Grandma!

The sunglasses were not exactly a hit. He had his eyes closed most of the time they were on his face, kind of ruining the point of sunglasses.

My view from behind the stroller. Such cute Jayden toes!

Drinking water from a transition bottle/sippy cup. Not a huge hit at first, but he's getting used to it. We'll get to graduate to one with handles very soon.