Seven Months!!

I can't believe it's been seven months since sweet Jake entered our lives!! I must say it's been the best, most rewarding, blessed, challenging, entertaining, exhausting, humorous, fantastic, adventurous seven months of my life. Jake makes me laugh every day. His little personality is so laid back. He's got great facial expressions and the sweetest demeanor. He very rarely gets upset about anything. His little laugh is contagious. Oh my, I could go on and on.

Before I go into all that Jake is doing, I want to celebrate what the Lord is doing. Jake had yet ANOTHER NORMAL EKG!! We totally believe Jake is being healed from his Long QT Syndrome. One day we believe we'll receive a word from the Lord to get Jake retested. That's the only way to get him cleared from this "diagnosis". He can have all the normal EKG's, but since this is a genetic disorder, it's not something you "get over". So the doctors won't dismiss him unless we prove to them one day that he does NOT have Long QT Syndrome any longer. Oh the celebration that will take place that day!! So that said, I'll fill you in on all the other fun things that Jake is doing..

So in the last month he has...

• Started sitting up on his own (he did this 2 days after his 6 month birthday).
• Rolling over, back to front and front to back, with much greater ease.
• Switched into a big boy car seat; no more carrier.
• He still enjoys the jumperoo and jump-n-jive, he really goes to town.
• He loves looking at his name banner in his room that hangs above his changing table. Any time you change his diaper you have to let him look at his name before you leave the room. We point to each letter. He's going to be the youngest kiddo to learn to spell his name.
• He reaches for G and I when he wants us to hold him.... I LOVE that.
• He "talks" a lot. He has many sounds in his repertoire. Hi, Bup, Up, Bu, Mmmm, Mmba, Ba... of course notice no where in his repertoire is there a Mama or Dada. We're working on it.
• He is starting to realize that he has control over his body. He sits and watches his hand while he opens and closes it.
• He blows raspberries on anything he can get his mouth on. Mirrors, toys, arms, faces, if he can get his mouth on it, it gets a raspberry.
• He can still squeal with the best of 'em.
• He thinks Joey is pretty funny. If Joey is in the room, Jake is watching him.
• He likes being outside.
• He will grab your face, one hand on each cheek and try to "kiss" your nose. Hahaha
• He is still chewing and drooling on EVERYTHING... but still no teeth!!!
• Lastly... ONE day before his 7 month birthday... he started crawling!!! Well, almost. Let's just say he can get across the room if he wants. He either gets up on all four and lunges forward, or army crawls to his destination. His stationary days are pretty much over.

I LOVE BEING JAKE'S MOMMY... AND GERALD LOVES BEING JAKE'S DADDY!!! This has been so much fun!! Each day is a new journey and a new adventure. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE our boy!!

Enjoy the pictures!! The pictures of Jake in the bow tie and conductors wand were taken for the cover of his Aunt Merry's Classical Baby CD. You can find some of Merry's CD's in Mardel. We'll let you know when Classical Baby with Jake on the cover hits the shelves. How fun is that!!