Posted by Katherine on January 5th, 2009
This week Ted has continued the hard work of learning to crawl. He has gotten serious about it and has managed to move forward. He still hasn’t done any traditional crawling, but he is incredibly close. His top teeth have poked through. He still has that ear infection too. He has been keeping us up a lot at night because he apparently wants to sleep up right and Mom and Dad are slow to catch on.
His latest food was guava and we figured out mango gives him a rash on the face. We had given him mango the first time when we were up in RI and we thought the rash was due to dry skin. But then on Friday I gave him mango again and the rash came right back almost immediately. So no more mango for now, which is too bad because he seemed to really like it. He didn’t like the guava as much. It was pretty tart. Tomorrow we try the YoBaby yogurt. I hope he likes it.
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Posted by Katherine on January 1st, 2009
Time to catch up on my weekiversaries posts! These days Ted is hard at work learning to crawl. He tends to scooch backwards when he tries. Mostly whining when he is doing it, as if to say, why can’t you just give me my toy/ sit me up/ pick me up and carry me where I want to go.
He is also learning to clap. He hasn’t quite perfected it yet, he kid of wildly throws his arms around (getting points for enthusiasm) and crashes his fists into one another or he puts one hand down to stabilize it and claps it with the other. He gives great big smiles while he is clapping, so proud of himself. So cute.
He loves to jump and goes crazy in his Jumperoo, jumping up a storm. He also still really enjoys spending time in his Exersaucer. He is getting better with books. He will turn the pages now… Not always in the order you want them and will frequently snap the book shut during a story, but he is starting to get the idea. Sometimes he will sit by himself and flip through a board book. Of course his favorite play time activity is Mom or Dad lifting him high in the air.
He mostly says da-da, sometimes Bob or gah or tszzz, rarely ma-ma. Frequently he growls or makes an aaah noise that always makes me think of those Whassup? commercials.
His top two teeth are coming in. The have not broken the surface yet, but you can see them clearly under his gums. He also has an ear infection and he is handling it all so well… knock on wood. He had his first cold the week before last. He has been waking up a lot at night since the cold, but who can blame him? Hopefully when the ear infection is under control he will go back to sleeping through the night.
His newest foods are corn, blueberry, zwieback toast, chicken, and mango. He seems sensitive to bananas and pears, so we will wait awhile before trying those again. The doctor gave the go ahead to try dairy (lots of allergies in our families.) Once we are sure there is no reaction from the Amoxicillin for the ear infection (which I am allergic to) then we will try out some yogurt.
For his first Christmas we spent Christmas Eve with my family in Rhode Island at my Mom’s house. This year it was just my Mom and Bill, my sisters, Anne, Jack and us. My grandmother is rehabilitating in a nursing home, so we visited her in the afternoon. We ate ham and played with the babies and then sent them to bed and opened gifts. In the morning Jack and Ted got to open their presents together.
At the nursing home with Great Grammie
Then we headed over to Pat’s parents’ house with Kristen and Josh and opened some more presents with them and played with Ted and had some turkey.
Next we headed to my Dad’s house and ate some pork roast with him and Nancy, my sisters, Anne, Jack, my cousins, and my uncle. We opened even more presents and played with the kids some more. Friday we headed up to Natick to spend time with Pat’s grandparents.
Now this post has gone on way longer than I intended, but I might as well note that Ted watched the ball and the acorn drop last night with us at midnight. We weren’t planning on having him up for his first New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. We put him to bed at 8:00 but he woke up crying at 11:30, so I brought him downstairs with us.
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