Thanksgiving 2013

Simon's first solid: Sweet Potato

I'd say he liked it! He ate a good bit of it too. Of course some got on his face but I feel safe that he ate the majority of what was fed to him. 

Brian is the one who gets too feed him as I am still nursing :)

Right now we are giving him the option of eating 2 oz a day. Once he fully eats the 2 oz we will look into giving him more. Food before one is really for practice so you don't want to give him too much.

We are going to alternate between vegetable and fruit. Our current plan is:

Sweet Potato

Apple

Peas

Bananas

Carrots

We are making our own baby food and it couldn't be any easier and it's soo much cheaper!

6 months :)

Stats:

Weight: 14 lbs 13 oz (10%)

Height: 27" (70%)

-Loves tummy time

-Just about to crawl

-Back to getting up twice a night

-Definitely teething, we think he is getting his canines

-has ended up in our bed for a portion of the night as it sometimes allows us to sleep longer

-Brian has started to take Simon in the morning and play with him so I can sleep a bit

-getting real close to 9 month clothes

-sits up on his own

-will have sweet potato as his first solid on turkey day

Simon's First Halloween!

Simon's first Halloween was a ton of fun! He didn't go trick or treating and was clueless throughout the whole thing but I know the adults in his life had a blast!

The celebration started in Charleston visiting my Mom and Dad. Among the many things we did was go to a pumpkin patch (lots of pumpkins in a church's lawn. We will do a real pumpkin patch when he gets older)

Then the party continued at home. We went to our favorite landscapers and bought two more pumpkins.

We of course had to carve one!!

(The small pumpkin is the one Simon picked out in Charleston!)

Even though he didn't go trick or treating we got him a costume. He went as a minion! 

On Halloween his daycare was having pajama day so he wore his costume the day before. I drew the goggles on with eye liner. One eye is messed up because Simon moved his head and the tip snapped off of the pen.

On Halloween we were supposed to wear the Halloween pjs his Aunt Cathy have him:

But he had an explosive diaper and went in with the Halloween onesie that came with the sleeper and navy blue pants. Not matching at all but still in the spirit of Halloween. Don't worry he went in to daycare on Friday in his pjs to make up for missing the fun on Halloween! He came home with lots of goodies!

We had one trick or treater who came right as we got home. By the time we got to the door they were gone :(

And that was Simon's first Halloween! I am already planning next years costume ;)

Simon: 5 months

Can you believe it?

Stats:

Weight: 14lbs 6oz

Height:

*i will update that tomorrow at his weight check*

New tricks:

-sleeping without his swaddle 

-eating his foot

-beginning to reach for us

-getting much better at sitting unassisted

-eye teeth are coming in

His new nickname is chubs though he stil isn't that chubby. He is back to eating 15 oz at daycare which is exactly what he is supposed to be eating. Still not sleeping through the night but only getting up twice. The 3:30 session is hard because he doesn't want to go back to sleep after that one so we are up until 5 when I can convince him to go back to sleep. Also changing diapers tends to mean playtime sessions.

I'm sure there is more...but that's all I can think of

Fashion show :)

Here are some of the cute outfits I have been sporting recently:

Simon and the park

This weekend I took Simon to charleston to visit my parents. We left daddy behind. 

One of the things we did was go to the park. He went down some slides (with help), rode a metal dolphin rocker and played on the swings.

Here are some pictures of him on the swings:

Such a big boy!

There was another boy who sat in the swing next to Simon. From that moment on Simon wanted nothing to do with me.

Proof:

How do we know what we know?

There is a friendly debate in the education world regarding how we know what we know. Do we already know everything and teachers just pull everything out of us (see Latin background to the word educate, specifically duco)? Or do we not know anything and the teacher tells or "feeds" us the information?

Well it appears Simon has some thoughts on this subject:

We kept asking him if it tasted good...we are still waiting on an answer :)