Elias has a goofy little chuckle when he thinks something is funny, but the only time he goes into a full blown laugh so far is when Mark smothers his neck in kisses. My neck smothering kisses are not nearly as hysterical.
(That squeaking sound is Teyla playing with one of her toys.)
By the way, my baby is going to be 7 months old tomorrow! I cannot believe it!
When Mark fed Elias his bottle last night, he completely zonked out during it. Elias never falls asleep at the bottle when I feed it to him, but frequently does when Mark feeds him.
This was pretty odd because RIGHT before the bottle, Elias was a bundle of smiles and giggles and showed absolutely no signs whatsoever that he was tired.
Since it was about an hour before his usual bedtime, we let him sleep in the swing for a little while. When he woke up, it was pretty obvious he just wanted to continue sleeping, so I just put him to bed. He didn’t even stir until about 11pm and then all it took was Mark popping the pacifier back into Elias’ mouth. He stayed asleep until 2am when he seemed pretty wide awake and wanted to babble. Mark made him another small bottle and fed him and after that, Elias went right back to sleep. Unfortunately he woke up at 5:30am and refused to go back to sleep, but at least he was in a good mood.
Elias is such an early bird. We’ve tried putting him to bed later, but it makes no difference. It’s rare that he’ll sleep until 7am. Normally he’s awake around 6am. Sometimes he wants to wake up earlier though. I guess I just need to be thankful that he’s otherwise very good about sleeping straight through the night (usually from about 7:30pm to 6:00am).
I mentioned a couple of times that Mark and I wanted to try baby led weaning with Elias. While I like the idea, I’m not really sure it’s going to work for us because of our own eating habits and schedule. I certainly hope this changes a bit before baby number two comes around, but Mark and I don’t usually eat dinner until after Elias goes to sleep and we don’t eat breakfast and lunch together at all. I feel baby led works best when your child is sitting with you every time you eat a meal and if every meal includes food you can share with your child. Mark and I don’t eat a lot of plain vegetables, though. We eat a lot of spicy foods which aren’t suitable for babies.
I’d also wanted to make my own baby food, but time and my complete inability to do anything domestic prevents me from that. I actually think it would probably be more expensive in the long run. So I broke down and bought some pre-made baby food. For the amount Elias is eating, it’s not very expensive and by the time he’s eating complete meals, he’ll be moved over to “real” food.
I guess all that was a disclaimer for what you’re about to see: me spoon feeding Elias some squash. There’s a part of me that feels a little guilty about putting a spoonful of food in my son’s mouth instead of letting him feed himself, but I really don’t know why. We waited until he was 6 months old to start solids and we didn’t go with rice cereal first (or at all. I still don’t understand the point of it) and those were the two things that were most important to me.
That being said, Elias makes the same faces no matter what we offer to him. I think it’s the texture that disgusts him and not the taste of the food. Here’s a video of his first experience with squash. There are three other videos of this which can be seen over here on Flickr. At one point he decides he’s finished with the squash and starts blowing it back at me with raspberries. The videos also feature some of his babbling and a high pitched squealing thing he started doing a couple of weeks ago.
Praised be to Flickr videos! As long as I can keep the clips under 90 seconds, I don’t need to worry about editing and therefore, posting videos will be easy (and probably frequent). Here’s a video of Elias in his exersaucer tonight. We got two new Switcharoo toys, so I wanted to test them out. After this, he ate some banana and danced around in his doorway jumper. We’ll get a video of that soon because it was hilarious.
Elias had a lot of fun today in his Bebe Pod. I took tons of photos. They’re up on Flickr starting here.
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