Crawler
Posted by Missy Roberts at 8:03 PM About Jake
Jacob is in full swing with his crawling now. He took his first official crawl on Wednesday evening (August 1). Nani and Papa were over and we had just given Jacob a bath. After the bath we were playing in his room and Papa was anxious to see him crawl. He got his keys out and Jacob went straight for them on hands and knees. It was so fun to watch him move. He was a little slow to begin with, but now he's moving pretty quick on all fours. Today we were playing in his room and he was crawling all over the place. He loves to get into everything. Fortunately his room is for him and baby safe, but I still have to watch him like a hawk. There is a basket in his room filled with some random stuff and he loves to pull on it so that it goes on it's side so he can get whatever is in there. It's amazing to see him accomplish his goals. It's a little hard for me to watch him struggle to get what he wants, but I know that is the best thing for him. He eventually gets it and I'm so proud of him and you can almost see a sense of accomplishment on his face.
This afternoon Nani and Papa came over to see Jacob. Nani was playing him on the floor and was making him laugh soooo hard. It was hysterical. We've never seen him laugh that much before and for so long. He was belly laughing...so funny. At one point he laughed so hard that he almost tipped himself over. We were all laughing.
This week Jacob started eating 2nd stage foods. Those small containers were not satisfying him and he was eating two at lunch and dinner along with one in the morning with his cereal. So now, he eats a stage 2 fruit with his cereal in the morning, one container at lunch (and sometimes a little of some fruit) and 2 containers of stage 1 foods for dinner (I still have some that we need to eat up!). He is definitely a healthy eater when it comes to the solids. He still does not like the puffs. I actually got one in his mouth the other day and he did not like it. The face he made was priceless and he just stuck his tongue out in hopes that it would fall out of his mouth (the food, not his tongue). Unfortunately for him, the food stuck to his tongue and was just sitting there. I tried getting it off his tongue, but the first couple of times I tried, he shook his head and I wasn't able to get it, but by the third time, I think he realized I was trying to help him. so I guess he's not ready to chew things yet...in time, I'm sure.
I hesitate in writing this next part because it seems like anytime I talk or write about how well Jacob is sleeping at night, we have a bad night, but here we go anyway. Jacob has been doing fairly well at night. This past week 6 out of the 7 nights he slept from about 8pm to 4am without waking up (well, sometimes he cries when he can't find his pacifier, but I don't call that waking up, but a couple of nights he didn't even do that). Thursday night he woke up at 12 and was hungry...we thought that was kind of strange, but he wanted some food so he got it. I am no longer nursing him. The last time he nursed was a week ago Friday (July 27). It is kind of sad because I know my baby is getting so much older. But I think it was time. I definitely was not producing what he needed. I've heard that for most women weaning a baby from nursing can be somewhat difficult and painful. I did not experience that. I didn't feel full or anything the first day I went without nursing him which again tells me I wasn't producing that much in the first place. So that stage is now over, but I know there is so much more to experience with him. I nursed him for about 7 months (6 months exclusively) which I think is okay. I was never stuck on nursing him for a certain amount of time. I just said when its time to be done, I'll be done and that's exactly what happened. I think Jacob is okay without nursing. He is okay with the bottle now. He does struggle with it sometimes, but I think it's more because there is something more interesting going on at the time and would rather be doing that than being held to eat. He can sometimes hold the bottle, but not when it's completely full. And when he does hold the bottle it typically doesn't stay in his mouth very long...he thinks it's a toy. Speaking of which his favorite toy is still any remote control he can get his hands on. We've been giving him the remote control to the ceiling fan because it is small and he can't cause himself too much damage with it. We have learned to take the battery out before he gets hold of it otherwise the fan is off, then on, then on high, then on low, then the light is on and then off. I thought the fan was going to scream at us to make up our minds:) So he loves the remote, without the battery.
Alright, it's time to get some other stuff done, so until next time...mommy and daddy love you!