Friday, March 16, 2007

He Did it!!!

That's right... The little guy is officially rolling. The other day I put him on his back on the floor in the living room. He had been rolling over onto his side for some time so I knew it was coming. I was talking to my husband on the phone and was so involved in the conversation that I nearly missed the happy moment. Of course, I did realize it. He has generally gotten more mobile anyway. That evening he rolled over three more times. I didn't witness those events. My mom did. She was terrified because the little man had a spoon in his mouth and she was worried he was going to hurt himself rolling over. He did it again today. It isn't a fluke. Yesterday I left him with his head facing the television and when I returned he had rotated 180 degrees so that his feet were facing the television. Do you know what that means? It means it is time to get out plug covers, cabinet locks and baby gates. Big fun time. He has also started eating solid foods. We started with cereals.. He likes those, but so far he loves green beans and sweet potatoes more. Those are the only two we have tried so far. There seems to be some difference between when some pediatricians let babies start with solids. I was told okay for cereals but wait on veggies until six months.. Well, I am not waiting... The kid weighs 19 pounds 6 ounces at 4 months. When I try to feed him with a spoon he grabs the spoon and shoves it in his own mouth. He is sitting up quite regularly on his own for short bits (2-5 minutes) and will soon be really sitting up all on his own. He isn't using the toddler tub anymore. Instead we have gone for the sponge in the bottom of the tub. He is getting teeth. Confirmed by the doctor. His bottom front teeth are coming in.. (boo.. he's a bit crabbier because of it.) He also loves me and he shows it. He reaches for me when he wants me. He will do his own little verson of a baby hug and a baby kiss when he feels like it, and he generally hates sleeping by himself. Sorry Daddy.. Baby is still sleeping with Mommy. I'm not too thrilled about it.. Mostly because baby sleeps hot and tends to sweat.. But it does mean that I don't get cold at night.. and when he wants to eat, I don't have to get out of bed to feed him. That's a plus. But Daddy doesn't want to be the bad guy that kicks him out of bed with Mommy when he comes home. I totally get that. So.. I have a few more weeks to work on that.. (Really until December, but Daddy hopefully will get to visit in May?) He loves loves loves the outdoor swing which he got to start playing with recently. It has finally started getting warm enough that I can take him out to play. The dogs are loving it too because it means that I can kick and toss balls for them while I am pushing the baby in the swing...

Meanwhile.. in my puny adult existance. I have begun taking a pilates class.. Which i LOVED.. but now the instructor has resigned so I am stuck in a contract at a gym with no beloved pilates class. I just didn't enjoy the new instructor at all. She didn't teach the class remotely the same. It wasn't pilates, it was ridiculous. At least that was the way I felt about it. So, I hope I like the other teacher a bit better. We'll see on Monday. I'm doing lots of my graphic art work from home now... Well, lots compared to a couple of weeks ago. So between taking care of the baby, going to the gym, working and taking care of day to day life chores life has been pretty hectic. Speaking of my "graphic arts" I have been playing with some of the baby's pictures. I put the best one I've done so far up here.. I really didn't do much. Just cropped and did color correction. I am pretty proud of it. If you click on teh flickr link you can see all of the millions of photos that I have taken of the baby...

And now my favorite alarm clock rings.. WAAAAAH FEED ME!!!

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