Elijah is 7 Months

7 months old today!!! 

 Elijah is sitting up so well these days!  Not to mention scooting all around the house...kind of slow but very determined.  He is also starting to pull up on things, especially this music table when it is positioned like this.

Most days home with this cutie are super fun.  He can usually play alone for a good while alone and is a great eater.  The biggest struggle we have is that he still often insists on only 45 minute naps.  Grrr...so frustrating to not get much done, but more than that is to see him overly tired but unable to sleep more.  We're just going with the flow though because there seems to be no point in struggling against it. 

 Now that Elijah is sitting up great (which seemed to happen overnight!) we gave him his last bucket bath. 

 It was so fun to give him baths in the bucket since he could sit up and play even before he could really sit up.  It's a good thing he is really sitting now though, since he barely fits in the bucket anymore.  He is now just taking baths sitting up in a plastic infant bath tub, but I can't wait for him to have his first real bath in a proper bathtub in the States (they don't really have them here).

The next month is going to be a challenge as we travel around on lots of flights and road trips (and tons of time zone changes) until we finally get settled in our home in Ohio.  But I'm SO excited to introduce Elijah to the rest of the family and for him to have so many summer time firsts in the States!