Fun Family Moments

Eating some butternut squash - Little Bear likes to help get the spoon in his mouth

I'm not really sure mom, I still prefer MILK!!!!

Father's Day: Mark, Brother Shadow, and Little Bear

Father and Son

Brother Shadow giving Little Bear a kiss

Things are going pretty well here.  Feeding Little Bear solid foods is still a work in progress.  I'm not getting to zealous about it.  I'm just trying to slowly work the different varieties in to his diet.  Since things had been going so well, I decided to offer food at every meal this past Wednesday.  He took 2 oz of food every time.  Well, Wednesday night Little Bear didn't sleep too well at all.  Thursday at CC's house he was miserable and very fussy which is so unlike him.  I felt horrible I was at work and couldn't be there to comfort him, but CC did a fabulous job.   CC and I both thought he was teething because his top teeth look like they're about to breakthrough.  So, a little Tylenol, ibuprofen, and teething gel were given at different times.  However, they didn't help all that much.  When I got home, Little Bear was super happy to see me.  I got him ready for bed and then fed him.  He wasn't super tired because he had gotten a better late afternoon nap.  So, after eating, he wanted to play instead of going straight to bed.  I smelled something fierce though and went to change him.  He had pooped, and kept pooping.  Sorry to be graphic, but it was the largest, most formed stuff I've seen from such a little person.  He seemed much happier after that.  He ended up sleeping well that night.  When he got up in the morning, he had the biggest blowout ever.  So, I concluded that is difficult sleeping and rough day was due to gas, constipation, stomach upset.  Poor guy.  I certainly over-did it with feeding him solids.  Lesson learned.  So, I've scaled way back and offer him solids 1-2 times per day.

Oh, by the way, I felt another tooth yesterday morning.  It's on the top.  Not the middle one, but the tooth next to the middle left one.  He's now mastered rolling from back to tummy.  He's scooting around, but still isn't really moving forward yet.  That's OK, because once that happens, he'll be all over the place.

Happy 5 Month Birthday (a couple days late)

Well, this last Thursday Little Bear turned 5 months old.  It's hard to believe it's been that long already.  He is getting to be so much fun.  He continues to love-love-love the exersaucer.  He's getting so strong and active in it that I think he'll jump out of it soon.  He's found his feet recently and amazes me with his flexibility.  I used to be flexible, but not so much anymore.  He's been gnawing on his hands and feet or whatever he can put in his mouth.  Just this morning I felt something.  His first tooth has broken through.  He really hasn't been that fussy with teething.  He has been slobbering a ton and the last several days he's had a little rash on his bottom and some diarrhea.  I went ahead and picked of some Hyland's Teething Gel (the store was out of the tablets) just in case we might need it.

I wanted to update you all on how it's gone with putting Little Bear in his crib for night.  I'm happy to report that it's going very well.  the last 5 nights he's had 6 - 7 hour stretches.  I've heard him make sounds a few times at night, but then he's gone back to sleep on his own.  Last night I put him down at 8pm.  I picked him up at 10, changed his diaper, fed him and he went right back down.  He woke up at 5:15 and I fed him.  He slept till about 8:15.  Wow.  So, all in all he slept almost 12 hours.  Very nice!  I hope to continue to get into more of a night time routine.  I did put him in a disposable diaper last night.  There was slight leakage when I changed him again at 8:15 this morning.  I think this was most likely due to the fact that I still have size 1 diapers instead of the 2-3 since he's 17-18 pounds.  So, I did get to the store today and bought size 3.  That just sounds so crazy.

keeps getting bigger and longer

Play Date with friend McKenna (she LOVES him)

I wanted to add several more pictures, but for some reason blogspot isn't recognizing them.  I'll post them as soon as I can.