Age: Seven Months
Quotes: “I’m always the one to discover the first tooth!” Auntie Ayşe exclaimed after sneaking Lincoln Umut a spoonful of jam. Then verified by the excited kitchen full of Turkish aunties, one little bottom tooth has poked through. We heard that in Turkish tradition when the first tooth comes in the baby’s mom cooks wheat with a little bit of onions and salt and passes it out the friends and neighbors. The neighbors return their platters with a gift for the baby. How does that sound compare to the tooth fairy?
Height / Weight: Our big little guy doesn’t need to go to the doctor ever month anymore, so we don’t have his height and weight this month. He seems taller and heavier to us!
Eating: Generally he gets yogurt and banana for breakfast, a jar of veggies, a jar of fruit, and finally an evening meal of oatmeal. Somewhere with the veggies or time-tested fruit we add in a new food item.
Sleeping: Lincoln sleeps up to seven hours straight at night pretty consistently now. Then (get this) after a little milk, he falls back a sleep for a couple more hours!
Skills: Scooting (absolutely no leaving him unattended!); drumming—the drum, the table, daddy’s face…; experimenting with different gurgling noises and various other sounds.
