Our Lean, Mean 7-Month-Old Drooling Machine!

Time has started FLYING by! The weather is warming up, the little snow we have is melting, the house is starting to come together, we are finally on a consistent napping schedule, and Trey is seven months old! I can't believe how fast it's gone. I know how cliche that sounds, but it's true! He does something new every single day, we can barely keep up with him.

Yesterday Trey went to school and began his transition from the infant class to the TODDLER class. "Toddler??" you say? Um, yeah. Trust me, I am not happy about calling my baby a toddler, and typically they don't transition the infants up until they are either walking or a year old. But Trey is so mobile, so curious, so strong, and so smart, they felt he was ready for it! And he LOVES BEING A TODDLER!! The note from the teacher at the end of the day said:

"Trey had a SPECTACULAR first visit with his new friends in the toddler class! He jumped right in with a great cheerful attitude and began reading books first thing this morning. As the day progressed, he moved on to connecting and pushing motor links on the rug with "the boys" and giggling along with them as they ran their trucks into the block tower Mrs. Chambers was building : ) He is already one of the "gang"!!"

He is the youngest in the class by three months, but it didn't surprise me at all as he has always been so strong. As I was bathing him yesterday, I lifted him out of the bath and he flexed his little bum... and it's CHISELED! My baby does not have a squishy, dimply baby bum, he has a toned, muscular wrestler bum... go figure?

Here are some of the things Trey has been doing in the last couple months:

• Learning to say "Mama" - his first repeated

• Learning to crawl on his hands and knees

• Pulling himself up on everything

• Trying to CLIMB everything..including a whole flight of stairs (supervised of course)

• Intentionally goofing around to make mommy and daddy laugh! I set him on our bed one evening, and he did a belly flop jump into the pile of blankets and we laughed. So he sat up, did it again and looked up at us expecting us to laugh. When we complied, he sat up again, turned around and flopped onto the pillow, looking up at us to make sure we were laughing... and continued this for five minutes : )

• Cutting his first tooth! It's just a tiny sliver so far, but we're thrilled that it has FINALLY popped through, thanks to his favorite hobby... chewing on everything

• Going to the zoo and other play dates with our new friends in the neighborhood

•  Kissing

• Learning to use a sippy cup all by himself

• Memorizing Mets and Twins stats in preparation for baseball season

And last, but certainly not least... being handsome

Being seven months old must be exhausting.