Here’s Dylan in his Flashdance BabyLegs leg warmers, sitting in the little play area we set up to try to contain him!
He wore these at the latke party the other night, too, and had to endure Auntie Cindy singing “he’s a maniac, maniac on. the. floor….”
Anyway, the little sucker is fast! We’re calling him Flash, not just ‘cuz he’s got those crazy cute leg warmers on, but also because he can really zip around now…!
My brother got married, we had a mini-holiday celebration with Heather, Assaf, Taliana and David, and then the next day, we made sweet potato latkes with ginger sour cream and classic potato latkes for the family.
We’re looking forward to LA next week!
We lit the candles a little late since I had to work tonight. Also, Dylan’s a little on the blurry side here, but I liked this pic better than the other one….Now it’s official! Happy Chanukah!!
Here’s another video of Dylan and Tom cracking up. Dylan really, really thinks Tom’s “hiccups” are hilarious!!
Here’s Dylan in our hotel room in Sonoma.
He got fussy during dinner with Tom’s co-workers, so I took him upstairs to put him to sleep, but he apparently got a second wind as soon as we got back to the room! All he wanted to do was play and crawl around on the bed….
I couldn’t “fight” him, not only because he was so darn adorable playing on that bed but, now that he’s discovered that he can scoot himself around, getting him into new diapers and changing his clothes has become way more challenging!
We finally got our tree this past Sunday. It rained in the morning, but we lucked out and got sunshine while we were at the tree farm!
David, Taliana and Heather came over to help string the lights and hang ornaments. Before we started the festivities, though, we snapped this cute pic of the kiddies having fun “swooping” into each other.
Well, Dylan is doing pretty well so far on the solids. He ate a complete serving of his brown rice cereal again today and followed up his meal with a little bit of water from the sippy cup and then some breastmilk.
So far, he hasn’t had any noticeable constipation…if anything, he’s actually pooping more! He’s pretty much pooped every day, instead of his usual every other day schedule.
The past couple of days (yesterday and today), he has also slept astoundingly well shortly after having his cereal.
During Mothersong yesterday, he sacked out and actually stayed sleeping while we helped put away chairs, then while I put him in the car seat! He didn’t wake up until after Taliana and Heather were back from playing at Together in the Park!
Today, he went into a fairly deep slumber for about an hour (awoke when I got a phone call from Heather)…
If eating solids means he’s gonna nap well in the morning, I’m thrilled, especially since we haven’t had any digestive issues so far!
Now that he’s eaten cereal for 4 days, we’re planning on introducing a new food tomorrow….
Lots going on this week with the Dylan. He had his 6-month check-up…weighed in at 15 lbs. 6 oz (10th percentile) and 26.5″ (50th percentile). The doctor says he was born at about the 10th percentile, so she isn’t concerned with his growth “slowdown” and says that starting solids will probably help with the weight gain/growth (and reflux).
Dylan is also practicing his crawling skills in earnest (see vid!).
Today, we also started him on whole grain rice cereal. I’d say it was a pretty successful first attempt. He probably tried to eat about a tablespoon of cereal and, although it looked like he had a hard time swallowing it, he certainly showed a lot of interest in taking it in!
We’ve heard a lot about potential constipation issues with starting solids, so I’m hoping that nursing him after the solids meal will help prevent that….
Watch out! Here comes Dylan, steering with only one li’l hand!!!
Here’s Dylan at last weekend’s soup party. We hardly saw him! Who knows who took this picture of him!
Anyway, Tom and I made 5 soups — Polynesian Peanut, Asian Noodle, Butternut Squash, Yukon Gold Potato, and a Saffron Stew served over cous cous. Heather and David also brought over a very highly-regarded gazpacho.
The soups got relatively good reviews — the Polynesian peanut soup was popular partly because it was novel…and the 10-minute Asian Noodle soup was probably the best-liked!
Overall, it was a very good time….We are already thinking about next year’s soups — which ones will we bring back and what new recipes will we try??
