7 months

All healthy, and pulling himself up
Isaac is all better now. He had a cold for about a week, and then what I'm guessing was the flu for a few more days. It was the first time he really cried and was fussy and miserable. It was heartbreaking to see a little baby so sick.

But now he is great. His favorite things are pulling my glasses off my face, getting loud kisses on his cheeks, tickles under his ribs and on his feet, any attention paid to his feet, balloons (such joy!!!), watching Evan play or being in his presence at all, dropping items from his high chair and then leaning over to look at them on the ground, taking baths, when I say "dadada" and he sticks his fingers on the backs of my teeth (hilarious!), and crawling on top of me while I lie on the floor.

Yesterday he pulled himself up to a standing position. I was with him in his bedroom, and he saw a Thomas train on the toddler bed, and he pulled himself up to reach it. He didn't even realize he did it. His feet were positioned really weird and he was barely hanging on, so he is still pretty far from doing this regularly... though he did do it again today. I was lying on the floor, and he pulled himself to a standing position while holding onto me, with a big crooked grin on his face as if to say, "Ha! I am taller than you!"

Evan is doing great, but his threes are harder than his twos. He is very sassy. He says "no" to our requests in the naughtiest voices ever. Sometimes he makes annoying boy noises just to drive us crazy. The other day I asked him to stop, he said no, and I went to threaten him with a time-out, and then realized Isaac was leaning forward, smiling at Evan like those noises were the funniest thing ever, and Evan was looking at him as if to say, "I know! Isn't it great?"