Daylen had his 7 month pictures taken today at Kiddie Kandids in Babies R Us (Mesquite). These are also late Father's Day portraits. The supervisor/photographer who took the pictures did an awesome job!! She liked their portraits so much that she ordered a 20 x 20 of them to hang in their studio as an advertisement. So in about a month go to the Mesquite Babies R Us and you should see Darren and Daylen's pictures hanging up. 
Daylen is finally starting to "sprout" a tooth on the bottom left side. He has been fussy this week and then we discovered why. His bottom tooth has started breaking through the skin where we can feel the top of it. He is at the end of his 7th month, so by the time he is 8 months old (7/3/10) he should have a tooth showing. Here is a picture I took of his tooth. The picture looks awful, but I had to take the picture while he was crying so his mouth would open wide.
Since I have been home for the summer I am able to spend every waking moment with Daylen. I am able to see his "firsts" and not miss a thing. Daylen has recently developed what most people refer to as "mommy syndrome." When I walk into a room his eyes are constantly following me. When someone else is holding him and he sees me, he immediately cries and wants me to hold him. If I put him down to do chores around the house he starts to cry because I am not holding him. It is something that is very sweet and annoying at the same time.
Daylen has started forming noises that sound like "da da." Of course it is more "tha tha" because he is learning to use his tongue to make noises, but we are saying that he is saying da da. This week he has started sitting up on his own. When I sit him down in the floor, he can hold himself up and play. He has also started making a clapping motion. He hasn't figured out how to make the "clap" noise, but he has the motion down. He has also learned how to "spit." At first I thought it was more like blowing raspberries, until I saw huge drips of spit come out of his mouth. When we are driving down the road, I will hear him spitting. I guess since he has so much spit and slobber built up from teething then he has to get rid of it. No, Daylen has still not grown any teeth. His gums are starting to swell more and more everyday, but he still has no teeth. It's a little discouraging since it seems that everyone Daylen's age has already sprouted their teeth. Is Daylen a slow developer? Of course people tell me not to worry about it because some babies just take longer to grow their teeth. We all think he should be sporting his teeth within the next couple of weeks....hopefully.
I wanted to include a picture of Daylen sitting up, so here is one from this week. He is growing up so quickly.
These pictures were taken at Kiddie Kandids at Babies R Us this past month. We also used these pictures as late Mother's Day pictures.
