Ben had a great weekend last weekend! When we first got back, he started a little rough. The first two nights he woke up every 45 minutes from 8 to midnight, because he thought it was still afternoon (StL time). He didn’t want to eat solids either. Perhaps we spoiled him by holding him while feeding him? But Friday he had a great day at daycare, good naps and eating. Friday night we went out to eat, and he fell asleep on the way there, woke up on the way back, ate when we got home and went right back to sleep, woke up once, ate, and went back to sleep, then slept in until 10:30!
The next night we went to dinner again, but the walk was not long enough for him to fall asleep. Too many people to look at, so he was awake during dinner, but happy, and he finally fell asleep later while we were hanging out with our friends. We had a late night that night, but Ben slept until 10, and then (all of us) went back down for a 3 hour nap at 11:30. I love this weekend schedule!
Unfortunately that sleeping did not carry through the week. He went back to getting up every three hours to eat. I am starting to send more milk to daycare to see if we can get him to eat more during the day.
We received our things from the moving company only three days before we left for the States, so we are still unpacking and organizing. I also picked up a few things in St. Louis that I couldn’t find here, and a few things that I left at my parents’ house. This weekend, my goals are to organize our things and maybe decorate Ben’s room.
For Ben’s room, I have letters B E N to paint green, add monkeys and giraffes, and hang on the wall over his crib. I also have his Noah’s Ark cross from his Godparents, Laura and Jeff. I will hang his Jungle Babies blanket over the bed, put the Jungle Babies bed skirt on the crib, and put shelves and photos on the other wall. Then I will need to come up with something for his books. Probably just a bin for now.
I tried hanging some pictures last weekend, without any success. The walls are something I’ve never dealt with before. I believe it’s plaster. I tried hammering in a little nail into a piece of tape on the wall, and the nail stopped after a fraction of an inch. The more I hammered, it only crumbled the plaster and bent the nail. We don’t have a drill, and I don’t even know if that would work. I am going to look for adhesive picture hangers.
I made my first batch of baby food for freezing this week, carrots. I used the hand grinder, and it worked really well. Before this, I had been making single servings using a fork or mortar and pestle.
He did really well eating the carrots. We tried plums again, for the second time, and he gagged on them again. Maybe they are too tart; I think we will hold off on those for a while. His favorite is still bananas, followed by avocado, egg, and carrots. We just started ricotta cheese, and he is slowly warming up to it. And he’s starting to like peas. We will be trying meat soon, and maybe teething biscuits. Still no teeth though!
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