Nathan is loving his food! I am amazed at how big the bites are that he takes out of peeled pear!! Foods tasted to date (new foods during the last fortnight in bold):
Apple (uncooked, sucks the juice where I take bites), banana, corn (on the cob, he does manage to chew off some kernels I leave on the cob for him), carrot, cantaloupe, pear (ripe and stewed), chicken (bone to suck and shredded breast in soup), pizza crust, a very small quantity of cous cous and an equally small quantity of rice, pumpkin soup, potato and garlic soup, and roast pumpkin soup (pumpkin, tomato, sweet potato, carrots and chicken stock), broccoli, avocado, risotto, porridge, lamb chop, fish, watermelon, yellow baby squash, peas, chicken and corn soup, mashed potato, grapes (cut into quarters), chinese broccoli, small amount of duck, chinese BBQ pork, beef stew and prunes.
We bought Nathan a seat that attaches to dining chairs so he can sit at the table instead of on the table in his Bumbo. The next step is to get something to protect both the table and the floor from mushy food!
Nathan nearly has the knack of sitting unsupported. He can do it for short periods, but then gets excited about something and pushes himself over backwards! Crawling is coming along…he can creep forwards now (instead of always going backwards) and can get onto his hands and knees. We are waiting for that to progress to actual crawling.
Swimming classes are still on Mondays, but the instructor asked if we could get to his midday class instead since he says Nathan would be better off in the next class level. His class is actually full, but Sam said it would be ok if we joined…unofficially! lol.
We turned the carseat around this weekend so that Nathan is now forward facing. We had planned to leave it rear facing for a while since Nathan isn’t 8 kg yet which is the minimum weight suggested by the manufacturer for the forward facing seat, but the RTA say it is ok from 6 months, and we are hoping that Nathan will be more settled in the car if he can see what is going on. We have a 3 hour (at least) drive on Friday and we hope this will make the trip bearable. I was very excited that Nathan actually fell asleep in the car seat on Saturday with only my hand on him and while I was singing (10 green bottles, of all things). The photo below shows Nathan sleeping in the car seat, this time he was put in already asleep, and the straps have been adjusted now to fit him better too.
New booster seat Sleeping in the forward facing car seat
Preparations for my return to work continue. Andrew has now got Nathan to sleep on numerous occasions, which has given him a lot of confidence. I am still working on getting Nathan to go to sleep in the cot, but Andrew will probably have to take over that goal. Nathan’s sleep patterns seem to be changing, and he has slept 1.5 hours for one of his day naps on 3 days in the last week.
Andrew is happy with his pouch to carry Nathan in, and I have started carrying him in the back position in the Ergo which is really comfortable. I find it hard to get him in the Ergo, though.
And finally, just because I like this photo…
awww, love the sleeping like a baby photo in the car! After all your stories about nathan and travel, that is a sweet sight! Caspar is turned around now too and loves looking out the window and at his brother (instead of at the cage between him and the boot!).
he has had so much variety of foods, I remember our health nurse saying, that the more different food you can get your baby to try before one, the more variety you have for them to become fussy with later (which is sometimes a toddler thing)… great work with the sleep time too dad! 🙂
K
Oh wow he is getting so grown up!
Funny – we just switched M’s car seat around too LOL… though he’s never had a problem with the car (no choice where we live) so we kept him rear facing (talking to his sisters) till he got too huge to heft up over and into the seat!