7 Month Letter

Dear Gusser

You are seven months old. This is the age in which I think you have really formed your personality. You are very a kind hearted, expressive, happy and reserved baby. Except you do not seem like a baby anymore to us. You are becoming a little person. You have likes and dislikes and you can communicate with us. It is so fun for us to see you being so interactive.

You are crawling; I think I can officially say that. You have taken your first crawling steps but after a couple moves of your arms and legs you like to kick out your legs behinds you and get into a sitting position. You love to crawl all over both mom and dad. If we are on the floor with you, you come over and use us as your personal jungle gym.

As I said in last month’s letter you had a big month! First let’s discuss your baptism. You were baptized on October 25, 2009. This was an amazing day, the sun was shinning and the weather was amazing in Chicago. You had all your loved ones in town and everyone was ready for your big day. We dressed you in a comfy white romper and we were so excited for this day. Dad and I made the decision ahead of time that we want you to get dunked in the baptismal font. This would of course require you to be naked. For some reason this was very stressful for mommy. You love being naked and free and I was terrified that you were going to have an accident, but you didn’t. When it was your turn somehow your dad and I managed to get you undressed. I was holding you in a blanket that Mimi made for you and when the Deacon rose you up with your bottom facing the congregation we heard a roar of laughter fill up the church. Everyone had big smiles on their faces. Then he lowered you and said in the name of the Father, (dip) Son (dip) and Holy Spirit (final dip). You made it all the way to the Holy Spirit before you got a little upset. I did not blame you because when I grabbed your from the priest the water was cold! Once I wrapped you back up you were fine and had a big smile on your face again. Then we went to Ben Pao for a party! We all had a great day. See the pictures below.










The next big thing was Halloween! Your very first one, we dressed you up like a monkey and you were absolutely hilarious with your big ears. I took you to daycare with your monkey hat and some of your buddies were dressed up too. The girls at daycare went bananas (pun intended)! Then we were so excited to get ready for our trick or treaters. Our neighborhood has a lot of activity so we invited some of your friends over and hung out with the neighbors. We passed out candy and had you all dressed up. It was so fun!!!!







We took you to the doctor this month for your 6 month check up. You were awesome! The doctor asked us the following questions.

Is he sitting up on his own? Yep
Is he transferring objects from hand to hand? Yep
Is he trying to crawl? Yep
Is he eating solid food? Yep
Is he sleeping through the night? No – this is where the story gets interesting.

You are so exhausted when you come home from daycare that we feed you, bathe you and put you to sleep. It is usually around 7 pm. You cannot physically stay up any longer. Then typically you wake up around 1 or 2 am hungry. We would feed you a full bottle and you would go right back to sleep until about 6:30 or 7 am. The doctor told us we would need to eliminate the late night (early morning) feeding. That we need to start sleep training you. What this consists of is when you wake up in the middle of the night to go in your room and console you but do not pick you up. Then leave the room and let you cry for 5 minutes and then go back in and console and keep repeating until you finally fall back asleep on your own. Dad and I had to psyche ourselves up for this one. Then miraculously, you slept from 7 pm – 4am that evening. No sleep training required! You have now been consistently sleeping through the night. Sometimes we hear you rustle a bit, but you seem to go right back to sleep! I think some part of you heard the pediatrician talk about this sleep training stuff and you wanted no part of it!!!!! 10 to 12 hours of sleep is here!!! Yeah!

You are such a sweet boy; I love watching you sit up and bounce up and down with excitement. You are so easy to please, it makes mommy realize that it does not take much to make you happy. We can all learn from that. You only need love and affection! Happy 7 month Gus!

We love you,

Mommy and Daddy (or Da Da as you call him)