Guthrie had his 7 month birthday yesterday and somehow 7 sounds so big. He's surprising and delighting us with new tricks every day: saying, "dadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadada," (but no mamamamama yet), reaching up to be picked up and squeezing tightly, rolling around all over the place and leaning from a sitting position into a crawl position (but no movement yet, mostly faceplants), really really playing with his toys, eating all sorts of yummy food, becoming interested in certain books more than others, laughing a silly cough-ish laugh. On top of all these fun things, he's just super sweet and honestly fun to be around.
Guthrie's never had full reign over his toys (for no particular reason, just had never thought about it) and was in his glory. In a matter of 2 minutes, or less, he had dumped over the basket and started sorting through all the goodies available to him. 
Much to my surprise, he was playing with this sturdy little vase I had made as a demo for one of my clay classes. Guthrie likes to grab it, pull it to his mouth and shout in it. It answers with quite a nice little echo. 
Yesterday (and today too) was beautiful here in Charlotte, so we decided to take a little hike. We squished Guthrie into a back carrier for the first time and he really seemed to like it. He kept letting out little squeaky laughs the whole way and especially liked when I bounced him up and down. Guthrie also loves to eat the wind, so there was plenty of that happening. 
Dad, you're so fun!
Ok- this kid is crazy. EVERYTHING goes in the mouth, nothing is impossible. Even this giant exercise ball that we were playing with today. Somehow Guthrie managed to slobber all over it, while making slapping, sucking noises. Strange bird.
What's a rotary phone? Didn't they use those in, like, the '20's or something?
Mmmmmm. Peas for his inauguration meal. 
