Peas!

As I recovered from my nasty stomach bug, Eric was the wonderful Father that he is and took care of Alexander so our chances of him catching it would be slim. Here are the pictures that were sent to me to my phone as I laid in the bed recovering!

We tried Peas!! The 1st night, he gagged and gagged. I have learned that hating food initially is not a learned trait. No one taught him that but it gave us a good laugh! Night 2 went better. Here he is with his peas and oatmeal, of course.

Our little boy is getting so big! He will be 6 months old next week and he is doing more and more every day. He loves sitting up, playing with his toys. He loves standing and jumping. He has started climbing on us as we hold him. He twists and turns and climbs right up to our face where then he just laughs and laughs! These are wonderful times and Eric and I are enjoying every minute of it!

We had struggled last month trying to get Alexander to go to sleep on his own. We wanted him to learn to "self soothe" instead of us rocking him to sleep at night. So, we tried the whole "crying it out" but revised. We couldn't stand to hear him cry for long periods of time and I really think he would cry for hours! We would hold and pat him like usual and if he "fought" sleep more than 5 minutes, we let him lay in his crib. Thus, he would get upset and cry. We would let him cry 5-19 minutes and then go back up to check on him. Usually he would tire himself out and we could swaddle him back up and rock him to sleep within a few minutes. We finally came to grasp this is the way it would be---we would keep our sanity and he would keep his mommy or daddy holding him for a while for him to get to sleep. I have you know, we are now on night 2 of Alexander putting himself to bed. Last night, I thought he was asleep and laid him down. He popped his eyes open and I just let him lay there. He got his arm out of his swaddle and went to sleep on his own. Tonight, Eric went up with him and he was wide awake after being patted for a while, so Eric laid him down and I went to check on him about 10 mins. later and he was fast asleep. This is a good thing, but now all of the sudden I realize, my little baby is growing up...fast! :-)