Three BIG Things!

My mind is foggy quite often. The information is there, I'm just not as quick as I used to be.  Despite the downs as of late, there have been ups too- they are lost in the mind-fog, so I'll do my best.

We all went to the pool for the first time last weekend with our neighbor friends who have a 5 month old.  I went in first with Boo and he seemed confused for a minute but fine afterward.  Didn't try any swimming exercises and definitely didn't dunk him!  Water is fun!  The pool is fun!  Yayyyyy!!!!

Toward the end there were squeals of delight and splashing.  Splashy Boo Boo.  It's a quick trip to the pool with a baby so we are in the water for just a half hour.  We brought pizza for dinner last weekend, and our friends brought dinner this time.  This is going to sound SO old, but it was nice to eat at 6pm and get to bed EARLY.  Many nights we don't eat until 7:30 to as late as 9pm.  Sometimes it is cereal for dinner.  Sometimes we skip dinner.  Sometimes it is McD's for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

So yes, the pool! And the other BIG thing was introducing solids.  I wanted to a couple weeks ago but the stomach bug prevented that.  We tried rice cereal.  It doesn't look like rice OR cereal.  So the first real food was sweet potato.   Fail.   Confused look.  Furrowed brow.  Crying.

Thinned it out more with formula.   Still, a no-go but this time,  he pressed his lips together like a duck bill,  turned his head away and batted at the spoon.

This kid catches on quick.

Next try: apples.  He seemed to be more receptive to that.  As in, didn't flip out.  Sent him with the homemade apple puree twice to day care this week and he ate all of it!  I'm going to stick with apple for a little big then try the evil sweet potatoes again.

So yes, the pool AND solids.  And, the other other BIG thing is this:  Crawly Boo Boo.  We've been watching him get up on all fours in a perfect tabletop position.  He shifts his weight back and forth testing his body.  At first, he'd get into this state then immediately topple over.  We were accustomed to him rolling all over haphazardly.  He got better at it and could roll where he wanted to.  Now, he can do that and a crawl-lunge.  I say that because he gets up on all fours, reaches forward (because there's usually something he is trying to get to) then flattens out.  He manages to cover ground this way and it is to the point where I don't feel comfortable leaving him unattended.

Not like I ever really did, at least not for long.  But now, I don't feel comfortable leaving him on the floor to go fix him a bottle of formula.  The kitchen is adjacent, but I cannot see into the living room.  We are going to get baby jail (a pen) this weekend and make use of the pack and play.

So, those are three big things!