Our son turned 7 months yesterday! That means I've been taking care of a baby for 7 months!? Wow! He recently started saying mamamama, but I'm not sure if he was trying to call for me, banana, or nam nam, as he used it around the time he wanted food... 🤔 but I will take it! 😎 He also got his first tooth! He sits really well, and is starting to practice sitting up for himself. He wants to eat whatever we eat, and is really great at eating what I actually give him. He is funny, fun, can make super loud squeals, smiles and laughs a lot, and LOVES people! He often look and smile at them trying to get their attention. We love him so much! 🥰👶

If I ever drink stronger alcohol, I'm gonna need to drink it straight, cause I'm not gay 🤣🤣🤣

What's something fun you really enjoyed about one of your childhood birthdays? In Sweden, when I was a kid it was super popular to have a "fiskdamm" (fishing pond?) Which was basically an adult hiding behind a sheet and kids holding a stick with a string tied to a clothespin. They'd throw it over the sheet and the adult would clip it to a small bag of candy, and tug on the string when the kid could pull it back. One year, my mom "who isn't very creative", made bags that looked like fish, because that's way more realistic and fun than a boring paper bag! (She's way more creative than she thought, clearly! No other parents did this!)

I've been digitizing my moms old 5 year diaries, and started with my birthday. I did age 3 to 7 today, so now I want cake! 🤣 It's also fun to read as I now have a child of my own! I still have 5 months to think of how to celebrate his first birthday, but after reading about my own, I now want to do something special for him!

How many days in a row can you eat the same dinner and still enjoy it? We've had the same thing fir 5 days, then one day we got free food from elsewhere so our streak was broken. Then we started again and are now back at 5 days. So, the last 11 days we've had the exact same dinner for 10 of the days! And yes, I'm still enjoying it. Never thought that would be the case for me, I usually want different flavors quite often. Bean, cheese, rice burrito from Filibertos Mexican food, with chips and their guacamole salsa or whatever it is. It's spicy but I still like it. WHO AM I?!?! 😯🤯🤣

While being stuck in a multi mile long line of cars due to roundabouts today, I got an intense desire to make bumper stickers that read "I stop at roundabouts" and sticking them on all the cars that stop for no reason, causing the traffic, just to shame them a bit, but then I heard myself and I want nothing to do with shaming people, so I guess I won't be getting those bumper stickers after all 😔 😅

Do you ever catch yourself hearing what you said and wonder why you use that phrase, cause it doesn't really even make sense? I caught myself telling my son to not worry cause I was gonna put him in his carseat and cover it so the sun wouldn't get in his eyes.... He's almost 7 months old, I'm pretty sure he has no concept of "worry", and I sure don't want to teach it to him!

Watched Hail Mary last night. Totally worth it. I really liked the relationships and how humor was weaved in with intelligence!

This morning, I turned around to get a new diaper for our son, and when I turned back, he had somehow gotten a hold of my cell phone and was eating it like corn on the cob, with a satisfied smile across his face. 🤣👶🌽 I had to let him keep it for a bit, cause "to him goes the spoils" 🤣🤣

Our son went to his first movie theater today! He slept through the whole movie, and only woke up when there was about 3 seconds left of the end credits! 😎 I handed him to my husband who lifted him up to show him what a movie theater looks like, and a man and woman a few rows back commented about not having heard a sound, and asked him if he'd enjoyed the movie. Turned out to be the Harkin's Movie Theater owner! Mr. Dan Harkin himself! His dad started the business in the 30s I believe it was, and when he passed away in 74, Dan took over. At the time they had 8 screens over 5 theaters (I believe he said) now they're in multiple States and all theaters have multiple screens. They were really impressed with our happy, smiling, and laughing son 🤗😎

*Baby hack at the end 🤗👶 Our son has been coming with is whuoe we shop for people, and he's been doing great at sitting in the cart! One store had straps on the child seat that I used and found very helpful! But the Safeway doesn't have those, so I've been needing to assist our son as he tips over sometimes when he turns. We got a big order this afternoon and our son looked a little tired, so I grabbed my sweatshirt and then I realized that I could tie it like those straps, and it was so helpful! He tipped sideways, but they held him up and kept him from sliding too far over. Then they also helped keep him warmer when we ran out of space and I put milk gallons next to him on the seat 😅😎👶

Our son gets so much attention! We were doing a big shopping order today, and he was sitting in the cart that was overfilled with items. Some lady walked past it and commented, "oh, it's a baby!" She'd seen movement in the cart as she passed it and turned back to see what it was. Then she joked that she'd buy one if they sold them 🤣

It's so fun feeding our son! He get excited and if it's a new food, he grimaces as he tried to figure out this new flavor, but looks excited again when I offer him more! 🤗👶

My son just moved his very wet and slobbery hand from his own face, and basically slapped it over my mouth/nose and held it there for a while... Did I mention that I don't like getting slobbered on?! 😬🥴🤣👶

A boy just passed our table following his dad, stopped, turned around and came back and say hi to our son who's sitting at the end of the table in a high chair, the turned back and ran to catch up to his dad. 🤣👶

What is a question you realized would have been good to ask your spouse before you got married, but discovered after?

It's hard to argue with ice cream 🤣

Hubby was playing with our son and bonked his head on my shoulder and I said "ouch!" Hubby: Do I need to baby you? Oh wait, I already did! 🤣 Me: and I couldn't even handle that! 🤣 Hubby: kidgloves won't work either then! Me: nope, cause kidgloves are more not less than babying! 🤣 Yes, I own that my minimum necessary force is less than a feather 🤣😎🤣

Met a publisher and showed her out book website

Fika Time Books.com – Books for personal growth

and she scrolled through it and said she really liked it. The books were popping out and the covers and titles were good. 🥰 Awe, I feel validated!