25 Weeks

Wow, I am SUCH a slacker!  I have not been able to get my weekly blog posts up on time for a couple of months now.  EEEEEKKKK!  Oh well, better late than never right?!  Well as the title says G is 25 weeks (as of Thursday.)  Little Monkey Man is growing like a weed.  Sometimes I pick him up and I can't believe how heavy he's gotten!  I used to be able to cradle him in one arm and it felt like I wasn't holding anything.  Not anymore!  Carrying him around for more than a few minutes starts to get exhausting.  That's the way it's supposed to be though, so I'm very happy he's healthy and growing! 

We go back to the doctor this Friday for his 6 month (OMG!!!) well-baby appointment.  I can't wait to see how big he is now, and where he falls in comparison to other 6 month old babies.  He's been right at the 50th percentile the last couple of appts in both weight and height, so it'll be interesting to see if that's the same, or if he's changed any.  One thing's for sure, he sure is a happy kid! Even when he's exhausted and desperately needs a nap, most of the time he's still smiling and laughing.  It's pretty incredible actually.  We get people who ask us all the time if he's always that happy, and truthfully the answer is yes.  I hope that means we're doing something right!  While you always want your child to be smart and successful in whatever they decide to do while growing up, the ultimate goal in parenting (in my mind anyway) is to raise a happy, healthy, well-adjusted child.  I think we might just be doing pretty good with that goal.  Not that I'm trying to toot my own horn or anything, but being a first time parent is scary, so having some reassurance from the one person who can tell us the best if we're doing things right, is pretty nice!  It doesn't hurt that our pediatrician tells us the same thing every time we go too.  That definitely makes a mommy feel good! 

Now, call me crazy (you can thank my sister for this one...) but I've already started looking at ideas and thinking of things for G's first birthday.  Ya, ya, ya, I know...he's only 6 months old, BUT since his birthday is right in between two major holidays, I figure it doesn't hurt to start thinking of things now.  Auntie Cindy got me started...it's all her fault.  HAHA!  I spent some time on Pinterest yesterday and in a relatively short amount of time I had a TON of ideas tied to two different themes.  I think it's safe to say that in order to pull off either of these themes, Auntie Cindy is going to be helping Mommy out A LOT for this party!  :o)  Thank goodness I still have 6 months before the big day!

We're still working our way through first foods, and he's doing great!  I accidently found a new combination that he enjoys.  I say accidently because sweet potatoes and peaches look very similar when frozen into ice cubes.  I meant to pull the peaches out to mix with pears, hoping it would help tame down the flavor of the peaches and he'd like them better.  Instead I pulled out the sweet potatoes, and by the time I realized that it WASN'T peaches I was thawing, it was too late.  So with my fingers crossed I mixed them up and fed them to little man.  To my complete surprise he LOOOOOOOOOOVED them!  In fact I couldn't feed him fast enough!  I would put a spoonful in his mouth and he would instantly swallow it down (when he doesn't like something he holds it in his mouth instead of swallowing...not sure why because the flavor stays that way, but whatever.)  Anyway, he'd swallow the spoonful immediately and sit with his mouth gaping open until I could shovel another spoonful in.  If I didn't get it fast enough he'd yell at me and bang his high chair tray.  I couldn't help but laugh a couple of times when he did it.  When the bowl was empty he had the most pityful little look on his face.  It was like you'd just taken his favorite toy away or something.  He was so sad!  Definitely not a combination I would've expected him to like that much, but he certainly did!  Later that day I thawed the correct food and tried peaches/pears together.  It was not successful.  I was so hopful, but nope...peaches are NOT a favorite food for this kid at all.  I think that's putting it mildly actually. 

Well I think I'm finally caught up.  Hopefully my next post won't be TOOOOO late, but we'll see :o) 

Mmmmmm....avocados and pears!