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Today Henry is seven months old. To mark the occasion, I thought I would catalog some of the changes that have come about recently, and note some things that haven't changed. One of the things that has changed is he has a full head of hair. You can't see it from afar necessarily, but when you get up close, there it all is. This happened almost overnight. For the first six and a half months of his life, most of the back of his head was bald. He is now officially on his way to having a head of hair that will drive the ladies wild. Unless he decides to perm it.

He still loves playing with his feet and will rip off his socks and stuff them into his mouth any chance he gets. He loves being on his changing pad, probably because the ease of access to chubby baby thighs and belly means he gets lots of raspberries and tickles from whoever happens to be changing his diaper. Henry's starting to experiment with his voice a bit. His fusses go from a regularly pitched "wah" to a high pitched one that he probably won't be able to hit ever again once he's gone through puberty. It's ridiculously cute.

Mercifully, I can report that his sleeping habits are only about four thousand billion times better than they were a few months ago. He takes a morning nap for two hours, and then after lunch he takes another nap that lasts anywhere from one to two hours. We put him to bed at seven pm, he wakes up between 11 and 1, guzzles six ounces in under two minutes, then falls back to sleep until seven am. I think he wakes up and plays during the long stretch, but that's only because the other night we heard his mobile go on. He doesn't fuss for someone to get him until around 7AM.

If he wants me to pick him up, he'll drop whatever he's got in his hands, look down at the floor, and then stick his arms straight out from his sides. When you walk towards him carrying his bottle, he gets really excited and makes weird coughing/hacking sounds. If you walk away from him without having given him his bottle, he bursts into tears. The same goes for all of the solid foods he eats. Today I gave him a mixture of potato and green beans and he grudgingly ate half the jar and by the last bite was gagging and making big faces. That was a first because he loves everything else he's tried (for the record: oatmeal, barley, and rice cereals; ham, chicken, turkey, beef; sweet potato, squash, green beans, peas, carrots; pears, applesauce, apple/strawberry/banana, banana, pear/pineapple, mixed berries, peaches, pears/blueberries). Lately he's really taken notice of Flash. This evening he sat on my lap while Flash pranced around and stretched out in front of us for lots of scritches and Henry was shrieking with laughter the entire time. It was hilarious. I wonder if Flash has forgiven us yet for having had Henry.