We started Lex on solids a few weeks ago
and I don’t think I ever documented it anywhere. We started him
on rice cereal and he didn’t have any problem with it. I think
his belly was grumbly for the first day or two, but he loves
the cereal and gobbles it up. Today I gave him some oatmeal
(baby oatmeal, not Quaker Oats :) ). He likes that even more. I
can’t say I blame him, it certainly looks and smells better to
me. It’s fun introducing new foods to him. He seems to like
eating (and playing with the food and smearing it all over).

We also started giving him a sippy cup
with water in it. He like to play with the cup and gum it, and
sometimes he even manages to suck on it enough to get water
out. He doesn’t seem to like water much though :) He always
makes a yucky face and spits it out. He keeps it down better
when I give him water with a straw. I still don’t think he
likes it, but at least he keeps it down.

As Lex gets older it’s fun watching his personality start
to come out. He’s starting to develop preferences for toys, he
is an attention hog (which I think is common of babies) and he
loves to laugh. He has the most contagious laughter. Sometimes
we know what he’s laughing at (like if I’m making funny faces
at him) and sometimes we don’t. He thinks Alan is the funniest
person in the world though and loves to laugh at Alan – even
when he isn’t doing anything at all. Alan can walk into the
room and Lex will look up at him and start laughing with big
belly laughs. For no apparent reason. Only 4 months old and
already idolizing his daddy :)

Anyway,
not much going on, just a quick update.

I LOVE MY BABY
He makes me
happy every time I see him or even just think about him. I’m
such a lucky mommy.

About a year ago I decided to give this
whole blogging thing a try as a means to keep family and
friends updated on my pregnancy and impending baby. Now, I
think I like it :) Recently I started thinking about a career
change so today I decided to start another blog as I explore
this new path and see where it may lead. Check it out!

Lex has been talking up a storm last night
and this morning. A few weeks ago he was chatting like crazy,
but then it seemed to subside a bit… now he’s right back to
it. Last night I tried to get it on video, but he quieted right
down as soon as I turned on the camera. I got some other fun
footage, but very little talking. This morning he woke up at
5:30am with a story to tell and hasn’t stopped since. :) What a
fun baby!

I’m not doing very good at
keep track of firsts here. We started Lex on rice cereal last
weekend and he seems to like it. He gobbles it up when I feed
him, and likes playing with it when he can. We also started
putting him face forward in his stroller (instead of lying in
the infant carrier facing backwards). He really likes that
because he can sit upright and see what’s going on. He’s so
cute too. A week or two ago Lex discovered his feet and is now
able to put them in his mouth (all of his toes at once!). We
try to expose his feet for him sometimes, but it’s starting to
get cold now so he can’t go barefoot too often. He takes full
advantage of his “toys” when they are bare :)

This weekend we had lots of family in town. The last few
times there has been a crowd Lex has been pretty calm, but this
weekend he was just a mess. He cried and fussed the whole time
– except when we were home. He was very happy when it was just
a few people at our house. It’s interesting to see the
different stages he’s going through, mentally, physically, and
emotionally. Lately he’s started crying with tears and hiccups
– sounding more and more like a grownup cry instead of an
infant.

Along the lines of crying,
we’ve been having a heck of a time putting him down lately.
He’ll fall asleep in our arms, but soon after we put him down
he wakes up crying. Not just fussy crying, but real, loud,
almost scared crying. Makes me wonder if babies have
nightmares. Alan is in the living room with him right now
trying to soothe him back to sleep. It’s really a heartbreaking
cry :/

I haven’t posted photos in
awhile, so here are a few from the past few weeks. We had a
really nice day last weekend (or the weekend before???) and we
went for a walk down Quechee Gorge. It was great weather and
Lex enjoyed the outdoors. Carrying him up and down was good
exercise for me too!

Alan’s parents
brought us a highchair this weekend. Lex is so cute and small
in it :) He loves the toys on the tray, but only likes the
highchair for about 3 minutes. Then he starts hollering. I
think he just likes hollering :) Sometimes I confuse him by
sticking a spoonful of cereal in his big mouth. That typically
quiets him for a few minutes.

Anyway,
enough of my random spew of thoughts. Lex is in bed, so I’m
outta here. More later.

The (well, one) interesting thing about
being a new parent is that I keep getting random lines of
children’s songs poppping into my head and then I spend days
trying to remember the whole song. Take me several hours just
to remember the “mark it with a B” part of patty cake :)
Yesterday I got “little bunny fufu hopping through the forest,
picking up the field mice and bopping them on the head”. Anyone
know that song? I can’t remember much more than that :) I think
someone comes down and says “i don’t like your attitude…” but
that’s all I got :)

Just a quick update as Lex falls back to
sleep… On the advice of both sets of parents (thanks!!) we
started him on solids this week – though it’s hard to consider
soupy rice cereal as a solid :) He still isn’t sleeping through
the night (as you can tell), but he’s getting better. I’m sure
he was ready for solids because he gobbles up his cereal really
well. He actually teased us by sleeping for 8 hours the first
night we gave him cereal (sadly I wasn’t so smart and went to
bed much later than him, resulting in NOT 8 hours of sleep for
me), but hasn’t since. For a minute there (or a full day) I
thought cereal was our magic solution – but alas, I guess not.
And on that note, back to bed for me. Busy weekend coming up
:)