Happy New Year to everyone! (I guess the Y2K bug didn’t really bug too many people after all.)
Nicholas just turned 7 months yesterday and he’s sure getting big. He will have going to his next doctor’s visit this Friday. I’m sure that he’s not looking forward to it since he will have to get his vaccination shots again. He’s gotten a lot better with those shots now. We just have to remember to put a warm cloth over the shot and also give him a warm bath at night and he will do okay. As I have mentioned in the previous update, he can now crawl and pull himself straight up. I am having the thought that he might be teething now because he has been acting quite strange lately. At nights, he gets really upset and wakes up crying a lot. He’s also blowing a lot of bubbles and making noises with his mouth. I really don’t know how to describe that noise, but I was told that when babies do that, they should be teething. He always likes to put his mouth into hard objects, but lately he’s been doing it more frequently as if his gems itch and he needs to scratch it. Another thing that he's been doing a lot more frequently is putting either his index finger or his thumb into his mouth. Yes, he’s sucking on him now. He has never liked a pacifier nor did he like his thumb, but I guess now that’s changing. I am not too sure because there are a lot of other things that people have told us about that he’s been doing for months now but still we do not see any little tooth showing yet.
This Christmas, we went up to Nicholas’ grandfather’s house up in Oregon. We had a really pleasant time there and Nicholas had lots of fun starring at the squirrels and birds outside. He also had fun chasing the cats, Tabby and Simon. One deer even jumped up on top of the porch while we were there. We spent Christmas day opening presents and having that lovely Christmas dinner. Nicholas got a lot of nice stuff and we thank those who gave us Christmas cards and gifts. This coming weekend, we will be going to visit Nicholas’ grandmother and great grandmother.
There has just been too much to do. Next weekend, we will be hosting my best friend’s baby shower and about two weeks after that Chinese New Year will arrive. I want to go to Chinatown and buy Nicholas a little Chinese outfit so he can wear it on New Year. He received one from a friend of mine, but when we tried it on the other day, it barely still fits him so I’m sure he will not fit into that one anymore in another month. He looked really cute in that outfit and you’ll be seeing those pictures in the Pictures of the Day somewhere in the near future.
Mike also has entered him into a little baby contest and if you would like to help vote for him, you can go to (link no longer works).