Cale at Seven Months

When we first came home with Cale, I put ice in my water cup, and Cale startled at the loud sound of the ice dispenser. He flailed and looked quite worried. Ever since then, I've told Cale "this is going to be loud" before I do something loud, and he's been calm ... unless I forget to announce the loud to him. Yes, I know he's not supposed to understand words yet, but he's known about loud since his first week of life.

Cale seems so much older at seven months now! It's been over a month since I've seen his baby startle, where he would stick his arms straight out and wave them and wobble his upper body. However, Daddy did see a hilarious new reaction this evening. Cale was very happy today if he was touching me (I can see two new teeth coming in), and very loudly unhappy if he wasn't touching me. So in order to cook for the week, I had Cale in the baby backpack on my back so I could have my hands free while keeping his hands far away from sharp knives for chopping and hot stoves for cooking. Before I turned on the food processor, I told him that it would be loud. Cale did what he was doing for my every kitchen task: standing up in the backpack so he could lean over my shoulder to see what I was doing.

So imagine me at the kitchen counter with my food processor, and Cale leaning over my shoulder to see what I'm doing even though he knows it will be loud. Don't forget that he still has a very plump baby face. Daddy was facing us. When I turned on the food processor, Cale shook his head, jowls flapped, and Daddy says he did a dead-on comedic Nixon impression! I'm sure even R. Milhouse Nixon could have been cute at seven months old. And Cale is even cuter doing a comedic impression!

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