feed me
This little dude is going to eat us out of a house before we even own another one! He's moving right along trying new foods; so far we've tried sweet potatoes, acorn squash, bananas, green beans, apples, pears, and butternut squash. He's also randomly tried white potatoes and bread. He normally eats 3-4 cubes of food in a sitting, sometimes more, sometimes less but rarely. We're at an impass with milk. I think 6 months might be my internal limit or something; I can't be sure but I think he's not getting enough from nursing any more. So today I'm giving him bottles of pumped milk trying to see if he sleeps better at night because currently he's waking up three times to eat. Three. Mama is tired. We'll see!
coming up orange
We can check another one off the list! Dylan was all over the acorn squash today and finished it in about 3 minutes flat. And since I had already put the rest to freeze I had to improv with more sweet potatoes and cereal, but that didn't seem to bug him as long as it was something to eat. And I'm happy he liked it BUT I meant to give him butternut squash. Why you ask? Well I wanted to follow the orange sweet potatoes with what-I-thought-was a yellow veggie. First cut in, surprise mama, it's orange too! Even Adam knew butternut squash was the yellow one. I have nothing to blame this on other than I'm an dope.
Other news...none. The kids are good, Dylan is rolling over but only when he feels like it and Samantha is a little feisty but I think she's cutting another molar. Adam is busy. I'm reading the Twilight Saga, again.
take two
Dylan did amazing with his sweet potatoes tonight! He gobbled them all up in record time. I'm already trying to decide what to make him next, green beans or acorn squash, before moving onto bananas! Yes I know, boring to most but it's so crazy that we're already in the food making portion of Dylan's life. It feels like only yesterday I was whipping up batches of food for Samantha to eat. Speaking of, we found a good way to get some meat into our girl...disguise it! She's normally pretty touch and go with the meat section of dinner, but tonight she had three helpings of the stuffing for stuffed peppers - rice, ground beef, tomatoes.
Things are the usual around here. Play and eat, eat and play.
it’s all coming back to me
Dylan loved the sweet potatoes! Things were a little hectic around here last night at dinner time but I was trying to accommodate both my husband and my son...Adam wanted to be around the first time Dylan tried real food and I wanted Dylan to have it be fresh the first time, ie just out of the oven and pureed moments before. I'd say it was a success all around! I may have left it a little too thick, but he did just great. What a big boy we have : )
mommy fail
True story, good intentions don't always come full circle. I have carrots peeled and cut ready to be cooked and pureed. Little Dylan did not get to try a veggie today. Blame me. But I don't feel too bad about it, instead of carrots he got to meet Janelle's little princesses (twins Delainey and Danika) while Sammie played with her daughter Addison. All the estrogen wore the little man out, slept the afternoon away. As did Sammie.
godzilla and apples
I wanted to try and sort through Samantha's clean laundry before her next nap so I put her on a blanket in her room and brought the laundry in there to do on the floor. She decided she wanted to help me. Help me by knocking down the stacks of clothes and literally throwing her socks all over the room. She was so cute each time she did something, looking up at me and smiling, even when I told her she was being godzilla. When we were done we played for a bit and started putting the toys away. The last thing to put away was the blanket and I pretended to wrap her up like my mom used to do to me. She got a kick out of it, laughing every time I put the blanket over her head. She smiles more and more each day, adding in longer and longer giggle spells. She thought it was hilarious when I put my coat over her head to protect her from the rain on they way in to target. There's nothing better to brighten up your day than that huge smile she's got, especially when it's directed at you. She's got my heart wrapped around her.
This morning we made apples! I'd say it was a success. First she started pushing them out but pretty quickly started sucking them back in. I'm trying to decide what to do on Friday...one more fruit before back to veggies or try another veggie. If you have any suggestions let me know! To make comments on the blog there is a register tab. Adam has to approve you first but then you can comment!
Bonkers for bananas
Alright, she's not bonkers yet but Samantha did gobble them up this morning. I love watching her explore the new food...the first bite was questionable but after that it was the standard mouth wide open face for more. And tonight we did rice cereal and carrots. I want to make some oatmeal cereal; the pedi reminded me there are other cereals to try last week. Ha, I was just so happy when she got the hang of rice cereal that I zoomed right to veggies.
Samantha is now taking a nap. The first real nap since she woke from her mid morning nap at 12:30 which only lasted 30 minutes. I don't know what's up with this girl. I wonder if it's her new trick. She loves to roll across the floor, belly to back, back to belly, belly to back and on and on. They say when they learn something new it's hard for them to sleep. In general they are just messed up. She napped from 3:30-5:30 yesterday. It was the longest nap in recorded 'nap' history for her (since about 3 months I'd say). I am so nervous because of that when I put her down at 6 but there was no way she was going to make it to her 8 o'clock bedtime. We'll see the outcome of this.
Aftershocks of shots
Samantha was not herself today. I thought she was going to be sleepy all day because her first nap ran past an hour and I think the only reason she woke up is because I banged something in the kitchen. But after that first nap she wouldn't sleep in her crib. She fell asleep twice while feeding and I let her take a nap on me the first time. Fearing I would screw her up for the night I tried to put her in the crib the second time she fell asleep on me after eating. Of course she woke up. Good news is that she went down for Adam great.
The first day of attempting two solids meals = fail. I tried giving her some carrots this morning and she wanted nothing to do with it. While I was at Target around dinner Adam gave her some peas. She ate some but he said she wasn't too eager for them. I'm making more rice cereal tomorrow so hopefully we'll do that in the morning with fruit (once we start fruit) and then a veggie at night. I'm excited to start sweet potatoes so I may just do it tomorrow for dinner.
Mom and Dad leave tomorrow for Colorado. We are totally bummed out that we aren't going. Totally bummed. I wish it was going to be Samantha's first vacation so bad, especially since I have so many good memories there and Adam had a blast last year. It's the perfect place for us to have an annual trip. It would have been fun to tell Samantha she went every single winter she was little. Ugh. I have to believe that we'll(I'll) find a way to get us there no matter what next winter.
Carrots = success
Samantha loved the carrots! She was the least messy she's been : ) I was a little worried too about it. I may have burned the pan while steaming the carrots. I thought the carrots would be funky after that but they smelled fine. And I tasted the mix before feeding them to her. I would have eaten them with a little bit of butter, yum...but I froze it all up for her. As long as she doesn't develop any allergic reaction by Fridayit's on to the next veggie. Adam asked me today when she gets weaned from the boob. I need to do a little more research but I thought they need bm/formula for 12 months. Maybe? Either way my original goal was to breastfeed for six months. Since that is quickly approaching, my new goal is 9 months. Baby steps.
One of my besties is an aunt! Katie's nephews were born February 24, yet still remain nameless. Beautiful identical twin boys! I can't imagine the ride her sister is in for, I find myself wiped out after a day with just one baby. Seeing the pictures of the boys gave me pangs of baby fever. But only for a minute or two. Or maybe a day.
EDIT: The boys have names!! Luke and Ryan. Also, I found some weird looking spots on Samantha's legs so I held off giving her carrots again today. I don't think she's allergic but just to be safe. AND, she was just up on her hands and knees rocking back and forth!!!!!!!!!!! From what the moms and aunts tell me that's how crawling starts!!!!