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- Hi guys. Welcome back to my channel.
Today is Jackson's seven month update.
I actually wasn't going
to do an update for his seven months.
I was going to do
the first six months
and then wait until
a year because I felt oh, surely,
his development and things like that might slow down
and there might be less to update you on.
But in the last month he has literally been doing
so much stuff I wanted to tell you about it.
He is now crawling, he's waving, he's clapping.
He is trying to talk, he is sitting up, like he
is eating everything. He just feels like he come
along so, so much.
This is Caleb in his pants.
- Hello
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- You can probably also see from the faces he's pulling
that he is teething so much.
He now has four teeth.
So in the last month he got his two front teeth as well.
So that was quite hard. He was quite hot and sore
and up a few nights getting those.
But, bless him, they're so big and they've now cut
and are coming down but yes,
he has four teeth now.
So I have got him a toothbrush
so that we can brush his teeth at bathtime now.
The biggest difference developmentally
is probably his crawling.
He picked it up so quickly. He started
to crawl at six and a half months.
He beat his brothers records cause both of them
didn't start crawling until seven months.
So he was the quickest of the three.
I feel like he is actually doing everything quicker
cause he's trying to keep up with his brothers.
So, he's crawling and he picked it up so quickly.
He is now really, really fast.
If he wants to get to something he will get to it.
We have this black and white mat, I'll link it in
the description because he really loves it
and loads of you have asked me where's it's from.
And it's got like a bit grippy and it's soft
as well so he can kind of crawl on that.
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He's listening to me.
He can crawl on that really well.
It's like textured and he can crawl
especially well if he has like his legs out
and his knees can kind of like do it.
But it's not like a full-on crawl.
It's more of like an army, like, dragging himself
across the floor. You know what I mean?
But he's really, really quick.
He's definitely sitting up better as well
but he isn't sitting up properly.
I still have to be right there with him watching him
and I put pillows all around him as well because he does
fall over and especially you can see sometime he's
sitting up and he just decides I'm now going crawl
and it sometimes a bit of a face plant
into the floor to go from the transition
of sitting to then crawling.
So I sit there with him a lot
while he practices sitting up.
He's also out of his playnest which was like
the round donut thing he used to sit in.
He started launching himself over the side
and hitting his head and stuff.
So I was, like, you know what? I think you've grown
out of this.
He just seems to be growing at lightening speed.
He now weighs 22 pounds
and that is not me having him weighed properly.
That is me weighing him by standing on my
scales by myself and then standing on
my scales holding him.
But, yeah, he's 22 pounds
and he's just so long.
He's already growing out of his six to nine month clothing.
Which I'm really sad about because there is so much
of it from his brothers that he has not even worn.
But because he is such a long, long, long, long boy
he is growing out of everything.
I may cut the feet off a few things
but, yes, lots to go to charity.
He loves shiny things. He's like a magpie.
Anything that, like, if there's a screw on a toy
or a spoon or keys.
He loves keys. Anything shiny, he really, really loves.
As you can see, he's really teething
and everything goes in his mouth.
He's clapping and waving loads.
Clapping is like one of his favorite things.
Watch this.
(clapping)
I don't think you can see his face.
(clapping)
He just smiles so much when you clap
and he does it back to you.
He really, really, loves it.
He's such a happy baby.
He is becoming really high-energy as well.
Just like my other boys I've always been saying
he's so so chill and he is
but look how he's clapping.
He has so much energy.
He is normally jumping a lot.
Yeah, he loves to be held standing up
when you are holding him
and he also loves to jump because I think
he likes to pretend you're like the Jumperoo.
He still likes his Jumperoo but I feel
like he's been in it less
because he's really enjoying just being on his front
and crawling around in the kitchen now.
I don't know if you can see
but he's definitely got some hair now
coming in on top.
It all fell out when he was a baby.
It stayed in around the sides.
We've got lots of dark hair
but its definitely coming through on top now.
He's got a little bit of fluff.
Oh, you look so cute.
And everyone still comments of his
big blue eyes.
They're still really, really blue.
Hoping they stay that way.
I think they're the bluest of all three boys.
He's babbling loads
and he will scream and try to talk to his brothers
and to me but he's not actually
saying any words yet.
(baby sounds)
He still loves bathtime.
That is still his favorite thing to do
and he loves to cuddle.
He's just a really, really sweet happy baby.
He is like my little shadow.
He comes everywhere with me.
He has also been quite clingy lately with the teeth.
So we are like joined at the hip. Aren't we?
But, luckily, the older boys don't seem
to have a problem with that.
In terms of food, he is loving his food.
He has three meals a day and he eats everything.
So far, there's nothing really that he's rejected
and been, like, I'm not having that.
He'll eat anything so far.
We're doing baby-led and also some purees
and he's quite adventurous.
He loves tuna. He loves hummus.
He loves quite strong flavors.
He loves mango, strawberry.
I gave him yogurt for the first time
and, oh my gosh, you should have seen his face.
He loves cheese.
Like cauliflower cheese he really, really loves.
But he'll eat anything.
He loves peas.
Even just moving the peas around on his high-chair
is a really good activity
and I really think it is helping
with his pincer grip.
So I'll do that with peas or raisins as well.
So yes, he's a really good eater
and I'm really hoping that continues.
He's also still breastfed
and I am feeding him less.
I'm still kind of feeding on demand a bit.
I kind of just feed him when I fell like he needs it.
I have also introduced a baby cup as well.
We had the Tommee Tippee cups which
the other boys always used
but he didn't seem
to be getting anywhere with that.
But he does really like these kind of cups.
They have like a softer top to it
and he bites it and he can actually
get water from it.
So he has been drinking out of
that which is really cool
because I'm trying to encourage him
to drink preparing him for the summer months.
I just put him in his activity center
cause he could see it
and I could feel that he wanted
to get into it.
You see, so I think that's it.
Let me know in the comments
if you would like to see
an eight month update
or if I should leave it
to his one-year update.
I can't believe I'm even saying that
but he is just growing up so fast.
He is like becoming a proper boy now.
He so reminds me so much of his brothers as well.
They really do all look quite similar.
But yeah. Give this video a like
if you liked it
and I will see you in my next video
on Wednesday.
Thanks a lot.
Bye.