September 10, 2009: 7 Months!

Cohen is 7 months old, and 4 months adjusted age. His last developmental assessment went well and he is hitting all 4 month milestones appropriately. He loves to explore his hands and is holding on to toys and getting them into his mouth. He is able to move a little bit in his exersaucer and is doing a great job holding his upper torso up. He scoots around the floor on his back and can officially roll from stomach to back. His shoulder is his only obstacle when trying to roll from back to tummy…he’ll get up onto his side but he can’t quite get over. I’m sure its only a matter of days. Cohen also likes to play with this feet. He’ll bring them up to his chest and hold onto his feet and rock back and forth like that. It is pretty funny. We are also starting him on rice cereal this month. He will eat a little bit but is not a huge fan of it yet. He is doing great.
Coey also had his late 6 month check up. He still has an ear infection, so his doctor started him on another antibiotic. She said we wouldn’t wait as long to put tubes in his ears as we did with Carter (his surgery is on Monday). An interesting note, Cohen’s BM issue seems to have taken an extreme turn. Instead of not pooping, he is now having any from 10 to 14 BM’s a day! It is clearly very watery, and though he is not upset over it, he is eating every hour and a half and that is making ME upset. It could be a bug, or his body is forcing BM’s this way in order to cope with his bowel issue. Even though he is “pooping”, we are still keeping his GI appointment because this is still not normal. Other than that he checked out fine. He won’t get his 6 month vaccines for another few weeks due to the delayed vaccination schedule he is on, but I am not looking forward to that appointment