Seven Months and Feedin' Ducks

A day after Canaan's seven month birthday, we met my parents at Basil-Griffin Park for a picnic lunch after church.  Canaan's first experience in a swing was priceless!  He laughed and squealed and blinked his eyes super fast as the wind hit his face.  

Canaan is a rock star at sitting up now and will lay completely out, flat as a pancake, to reach something that he wants.  He hasn't started trying to crawl just yet.  He gets so excited, when he's sitting up playing, that his whole little body jumps and down and almost seems like it's going to leave the ground.  Yes, our Canaan is an active little guy.  We can tell the biggest difference in he and Hadley at this age.  He still enjoys jumping in his exercauser, for a little change of pace from just "sitting."  And guess who is saying, "Da-Da?"  Of course, I work on "Mama," but it's not happening yet. 

Canaan takes a bottle and cereal for breakfast, a veggie and bottle for lunch, a fruit (snack) in the afternoon, followed by a bottle around 3:30 or so.  Then we do another veggie and fruit around 6:30 and his 7-8 ounce bottle at 7:15.  As soon as that nighttime bottle hits my little guy's mouth, it is light's out for him!  Oh, I love that sweet time with him.  We've recently switched to super soakers (what we call them) for his nighttime diapers.  He was wetting through his clothes and sheets almost every night.  Poor baby would wake up screaming when he realized how wet and cold he was.  The super soakers have been fantastic so far!  Still not a tooth in sight for our big seven month old, but he wants something in his mouth 24/7, for comfort purposes.

After our tasty picnic lunch, we walked down to the pond to feed the ducks.

My mom had actually gotten on the internet so see just what ducks like to eat.  She found that they actually don't like bread, which is what everyone thinks to feed ducks.  So we fed our lucky ducks crushed tortilla chips and bird seed.

The wind wasn't working in our favor, as it tried to blow the food back at us.  Hadley was so determined to feed those ducks, though.  I know her poor arm had to be sore, the next day, she tried so many times.

Of course, no park visit is complete without playing on the playground.  Sweet girl wanted to make sure we watched her every move.

This little outing was a perfect way to spend our Sunday afternoon.  There's nothing like a picnic lunch and playing in the park.  Love these fun times!