Sully is growing! 14 lbs 4 oz at his 5 month shot appointment. He's pretty small like Griffy. The problem was G totally stopped gaining after this point, so we'll see what happens at his 6 month check. That will be the true test. I have started giving him food. I didn't plan on doing it this soon, but I started giving him bananas and apples in the mesh feeder and he was totally in love with it so one day I mashed up a banana and spoon fed it. He was in love grabbing the spoon and shoving it in. I still give him finger foods or mesh feeder when we are eating to keep him occupied. Yesterday I mashed up avacado and mixed it with breastmilk. I was nervous because I couldn't get all of the chunks out and I was afraid he would start gagging (GRIFFIN). But guess who DIDN'T?! I am SO RELIEVED. I think he may actually be a normal eater! Giving food to them is so fun when they LIKE it. So far I have made bananas, butternut squash, avacado, applesauce and pearsauce. He has also had some cereal occasionally. I don't feed him every day and it's just about a tablespoon of food or so. I have decided I will NOT buy baby food for Sullivan. I'll make it, or he won't eat it. I did this for G but had to throw so much of it out because he wouldn't eat it. Well, this time I'm not being crazy about it. I just get a couple of pears or something like that and cook them up and freeze. I am not worried about having everything on earth in the freezer. If we don't have anything, I just give him cereal or nothing. It's much less stressful. I had considered only buying the green veggies because green beans and peas have to be strained because of the strings and skins, but I think I'll just wait until he's bigger and can handle them and make them myself. Plus, since he doesn't GAG I won't have to worry about it as much!
Look how happy he is?! He has really become a joy. He still requires a lot of attention. He only will play on the floor for about 5-10 minutes at a time and that's on a good day. The plus of this is that he is NOT crawling. HAHahahah!! It's going to delay his getting around, so I'm ok with that. On the plus side, he will sit in the exersaucer or the jumper for longer. Yesterday I was able to run close to 2 miles on the treadmill while he played. As long as you are interacting with him, a smile never leaves his face. It's quite sweet.
Griffy loves him, but he's pretty rough. He is obsessed with grabbing his extremities and squeezing or pulling. Sully will occasionally scream right when he comes up to him!
Sully is so silly. Here he is trying to drink from a straw.
Eating lunch on Monday. Mondays are pretty lazy around here. We are supposed to have play group with some work girls, but so far, we've only had one. Note the pajamas at lunch time!
So B got me an iPad for our anniversary. Talk about SHOCKED. I usually get some flowers from Hyvee so I about fell out of bed when he gave it to me! I LOVE IT. As do the kids as you can see. They beg to mess with it. I had no idea I wanted one so bad.
Griff playing by himself while M is at school. I got him these Dinosaur Train jammies yesterday and they compliment his hair so nicely. He loves button up jammies and looks sooo cute in them!
