Saturday night we met up and had dinner & drinks at the Common Ground in Allston.It's about time we escaped our babies for some fun!!!
Our babies were much the topic of discussion, of course~
Andrew practicing eating habits of older babies.
This was at breakfast. He loves having a piece of my buttered toast (we lately prefer Pepperidge Farms whole wheat) and turns it to mush, eating maybe half and enjoying dropping unwanted pieces over the side and observing where they land. He also had three small spoon-fuls of egg yolk. Pretty soon we'll have to start cooking his own egg! The diced banana was an afterthought which he wasn't "into". He still uses his fist to eat so they'll probably become more interesting once the pincer grasp comes into play.
Must chase all that bread down with some water. The past couple days we've found it easier and more interesting to drink without the sippy-lid though that gets messy.
Lately his schedule is: feeding sometime during an ungodly early morning hour, 2-4am, when he wakes at 6:15-ish (and mom takes him from crib to bed and tries nursing him "back to sleep" for her sake, which never works)....then we emerge to wake daddy up around 7... Play time with dad while mom makes breakfast and then we all eat at the same time, 7:45-ish.
At breakfast, lunch & dinner Andrew eats a TB or more of baby oatmeal + water mixed with 2 oz (half container) of baby food (usually a fruit in the a.m.) Sometimes we run a fresh pear or banana through the baby food mill. More play time while dad gets showered and out the door by 8:30, then nap time right after dad leaves so mom can get showered too! Nursing-to-nap.... Length of nap is 45 min-1 1/2 hours but 45 min is usual.
A late-morning nursing snack is 11-ish.
We eat lunch at 12:30. Nap time arrives by 2pm with a nursing-to-nap. All I have to say is "sleepy?" when I suspect it, he'll start sucking his thumb and lean his head into me and I'll know it's time. I feel sort of silly referring to going to sleep or taking a nap as "sleepy" -it's incorrect verbeage but such familiar simple terms work for him :D
There's one more snack-nurse during the 4:00 hour. His dinner is around 5:45 with a bath right after, around 6. Dad dries his hair and the bed routine commences. That involves a rub-down with lotion, diapering & pajamas, by then he is all irritated from being clothed he settles right in to nurse for 10 minutes. Then we read 4-5 books (the long and most anticipated one being Dr. Seuss's Mr. Brown Can Moo) before it's time for the fart sack. I zip him up then we go out to say goodnight to daddy (unless before books, if he's drowsy I'll do this to wake him up a bit). We head back, close the doors, turn the light off in his room then nurse the other side. He settles right down, nearly asleep within 10 min or so then I carefully place him in the crib. On contact he comes ALIVE! With a couple of his jumping jacks I then kiss him, say I love you and Goodnight and he knows mommy is now leaving the room so he settles to sleep. Occasionally he cries briefly but that's it.
His night routine is what made the time-change hour transition easy- With all the repetition, we effectively fooled him to bed an hour earlier!
Andrew practicing eating habits of older babies.This was at breakfast. He loves having a piece of my buttered toast (we lately prefer Pepperidge Farms whole wheat) and turns it to mush, eating maybe half and enjoying dropping unwanted pieces over the side and observing where they land. He also had three small spoon-fuls of egg yolk. Pretty soon we'll have to start cooking his own egg! The diced banana was an afterthought which he wasn't "into". He still uses his fist to eat so they'll probably become more interesting once the pincer grasp comes into play.
Must chase all that bread down with some water. The past couple days we've found it easier and more interesting to drink without the sippy-lid though that gets messy.
Lately his schedule is: feeding sometime during an ungodly early morning hour, 2-4am, when he wakes at 6:15-ish (and mom takes him from crib to bed and tries nursing him "back to sleep" for her sake, which never works)....then we emerge to wake daddy up around 7... Play time with dad while mom makes breakfast and then we all eat at the same time, 7:45-ish.At breakfast, lunch & dinner Andrew eats a TB or more of baby oatmeal + water mixed with 2 oz (half container) of baby food (usually a fruit in the a.m.) Sometimes we run a fresh pear or banana through the baby food mill. More play time while dad gets showered and out the door by 8:30, then nap time right after dad leaves so mom can get showered too! Nursing-to-nap.... Length of nap is 45 min-1 1/2 hours but 45 min is usual.
A late-morning nursing snack is 11-ish.
We eat lunch at 12:30. Nap time arrives by 2pm with a nursing-to-nap. All I have to say is "sleepy?" when I suspect it, he'll start sucking his thumb and lean his head into me and I'll know it's time. I feel sort of silly referring to going to sleep or taking a nap as "sleepy" -it's incorrect verbeage but such familiar simple terms work for him :D
There's one more snack-nurse during the 4:00 hour. His dinner is around 5:45 with a bath right after, around 6. Dad dries his hair and the bed routine commences. That involves a rub-down with lotion, diapering & pajamas, by then he is all irritated from being clothed he settles right in to nurse for 10 minutes. Then we read 4-5 books (the long and most anticipated one being Dr. Seuss's Mr. Brown Can Moo) before it's time for the fart sack. I zip him up then we go out to say goodnight to daddy (unless before books, if he's drowsy I'll do this to wake him up a bit). We head back, close the doors, turn the light off in his room then nurse the other side. He settles right down, nearly asleep within 10 min or so then I carefully place him in the crib. On contact he comes ALIVE! With a couple of his jumping jacks I then kiss him, say I love you and Goodnight and he knows mommy is now leaving the room so he settles to sleep. Occasionally he cries briefly but that's it.
His night routine is what made the time-change hour transition easy- With all the repetition, we effectively fooled him to bed an hour earlier!
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