A Letter to Jayce: Seven Months

Baby boy,

This last month has been so crazy that I forgot to write this letter to you! I'll explain in your next letter. I'm going to write this letter as if it's really a day after you turned 7 months, not 4 days before you're 8 months. ;-)

I accidentally put too many tally marks under the diagonal one! I promise this is your seven month picture even though there are 8 tally marks total. You have changed so much this month it's crazy to me. Where did my baby go?! As you can tell by this picture, you have learned to wave! It's so cute because it's not fully developed yet but you sure are trying to wave Hi. 

This is your favorite food to eat: bananas.

 I can put them on your tray and you can feed them to yourself! That hand-eye coordination is awesome. 

We even tried other foods but bananas are your favorite. 

You even started to learn how to eat from a spoon and drink from a cup. 

When eating from a spoon, you really like anything that has fruit/sweet flavors. 

One of your favorite things to do in the mornings is drink "coffee" with Grandma. 

We saw friends from Mommy & Daddy's birthing class. All of you babies were in all the mommies' tummies at the same time. 

We also made our first long walk to the Spring Valley park. You LOVED being on the swing. 

You really still love being outside too. 

You celebrated your first Halloween by being a cowboy. 

Uncle B and Auntie M wanted to to be able to have a gun like everyone else in the family. =) And Grandma got you your first pair of boots. They are still too big. We just put them on so you could have help standing up!

Mommy and Daddy also started looking for a house to buy on Halloween too. We had been given a great opportunity to be able to buy our first house. We actually picked the house and went into a contract on it on November 10th.

Your biggest accomplishment from this month (besides getting 2 teeth!) was starting to army crawl. I can show you the videos if you want. But here's a picture of you in action. 

But the most important things from this month are the promises Mommy & Daddy made to God and the church about how we want to raise you. 

On October 19th, we had Dr. Young present you with your very first Bible. 

Then, on November 8th, we promised the whole church that we would raise you according to what God says and make sure we kept you in church. 

Hopefully, as you read this, we have kept those promises and you understand why we made them. We love you so much and want you to know God's unfailing love and bountiful grace. 

I can't wait to show you what happened  in your 8th month of life!!