catching smiles

this picture won't go the right way! it's so annoying as i LOVE it and it's the right way round on our computer but the blogspot won't do it for some reason...oh well, just bend your neck!

my attempts to get a photo of eden and it didn't go so well...the camera was too heavy to balance with one hand...but i still think this one is funny.


well we have survived the beginnings of the immunisation ordeals! phil picked us up on his way home from placement (apparently you could hear eden screaming through the whole doctors office). we're hoping my nonchalance with needles will rub off on eden, except it's easier to be nonchalant about them sticking needles into me than into him.

today we've skipped baby massage as I was really tired this morning and decided that sometimes there is just too much to do and we shouldn't do it all. so we've been playing. he really likes it when you sing to him (and i'm learning loads of kids songs from Baby Bounce And Rhyme at the library), and move his legs and arms around. he is also quite content for awhile in his chair looking at his toys and the room around him. he still isn't into his playmat very much.

he isn't as heavy as we thought he was...last week at the baby massage i weighed him and he was around 12 pounds...and we thought he was around 13 (from our home weighing experiment). although the other mums who used those scales also thought they were a bit off...so who knows what he'll weigh next time. he's still fitting into his 0-3 month stuff but we've washed the next size up so it's ready. reusable nappies generally mean the clothes need to be a bit bigger..although i have yet to notice a big difference in how his clothes fit depending on the nappy. we still use disposables at night for laziness reasons... and if we're out and about loads (which is often) just because there are only so many dirty nappies you want to carry around with you!

i've been thinking more and more about our trip this summer...traveling with a baby is going to open a whole other can of worms that i'm not prepared for! oh the things i'll need to think of! especially as it'll cover a possible change in clothing size and be over the weaning period... 

i'm really interested in something called 'baby led weaning' where you ignore the whole baby rice and mushed fruit stages and simply prepare simple food and leave it in front of your child while you're eating it (or very similar)... and when they are ready, they will feed themselves. it is supposedly REALLY messy (although how is feeding a child not really messy?) but empowers the kid to make choices as to whether it'll eat...etc. I've just met some mums who have been doing it and they say the hardest thing is to trust your child to eat enough..but while they're still taking milk its not the biggest deal what or how much they eat. one of the mums said her son won't eat junk food when it's offered - he picks it up, smells it and puts it back down!

apparently you start with things like plain roasted veg in chip shapes (easy to pick up)... some kids take ages to be interested and others grab them right away. i'd probably want to do a combination as i think there are some yummy soft foods (like yogurt!) but there's a book on baby led weaning that i want to read...

i still think that eden would eat anything we'll give him. so far calpol, infacol, gripe water and colief haven't made him bat an eyelid... as long as we're feeding him, he's happy!