Guzowski Family Blog: Four Christmases, 7 Months Old

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Four Christmases, 7 Months Old

It's been a busy week, and not only did we celebrate Christmas several times, but Noah also turned 7 months old! Here are a few highlights of his life at 7 months:

He is spitting up much less than he did a few months ago, and his tummy seems happier, too. It's a huge relief that the hour-long screaming episodes are over. He does still spit up sometimes, and he trashed my dry-clean-only pants on Christmas Eve, so we aren't completely out of the woods yet!
He smiles a lot and is very social. Four Christmases suited him much better than it did his big sister.
He is still nursing, but also loves baby food and bites of regular food. He even tried a few bites of Christmas cookies!
He sleeps roughly 8pm-8am and wakes up 1-2 times per night to nurse (yawn!)
He sits up well and is at that awesome age where he will sit contentedly with a bunch of toys and entertain himself for a bit

It has been really interesting to see how different Evie and Noah are, both physically and personality-wise. I feel like they complement each other well, and I hope they always love each other as much as they do right now.

Flannel shirt - he's a VT boy

Christmas (or should I say Christmases) were great. We had a chance to see all of our families, and there were some really special moments, especially sharing some delicious meals with our loved ones, watching the Christmas pageant with Evie at church (and hearing her talk about baby Jesus and how there was no room at the inn), watching Noah open his first gifts and then sleep in the arms of his great-grandma, and hearing Evie's excited expression as she sleepily asked, "Did Santa Claus come?!"

We felt like a bit of a failure on Christmas morning, because Evie had been saying during the entire Advent season that she didn't want anything for Christmas. Well, on Christmas Eve at 9:30pm, she wrote her note to Santa and said, "Dear Santa, I've decided what I want for Christmas. A new cupcake set and a doll mom." Uh oh. Santa brought Evie a cool balance bike with skis so she can ride it in the snow, but she told us that Santa forgot her cupcake set. I told her that it was probably because he knew she had already gotten a gift card to the toy store and would want to go pick one out herself. Try as we might to make Christmas perfect, it never is, but it was still wonderful.

Here are a bunch of photos from our celebrations:

Christmas Eve flute duet - Star Wars style

Christmas Eve girls photo (plus Noah)

My boys on Christmas Eve looking handsome

Carly's DELICIOUS asparagus fries. This girl can cook!!

Noah's Christmas morning goodies

Evie's Christmas morning loot

Christmas scene

Santa was hungry AND thirsty!

Evie's stocking. Her favorite item were new tongs!

Noah and Grandpa on Christmas morning

Christmas book reading

Noah trying out Evie's bike with her

Matt's new jersey. So proud to be cheering on Pat and the Colts!

Noah loved his gifts, but he REALLY loved the wrapping paper

Noah snoozing with his great-grandma. Her smile says it all!

Christmas morning #2

Evie busted into her chocolate snowman early. I can't blame her!

1000-piece princess arts and crafts kit. Grandpa Tom is clearly shocked! :-)

Baby's First Christmas!

Flashback to Evie's first Christmas! Same outfit and similar pose.

Roscoe even got in on the gifts!

Post-Christmas, I have had visits with several dear friends who were in town for the holiday. Matt has been on vacation and able to hang out with the kids, so I've had more of a social life in the last 3 days than I've had in the previous 3 months! We've also had some fun family time outside, despite the lack of snow. Wishing you all a happy and healthy New Year!