James with Great-Grandma
THREE days of eating avocados and he's acquired the taste! He has been loving them since Tuesday! I think my friends "Correnta" and Kami were right when they commented that it could be a 'texture' thing. I thinned it way down with watery rice cereal the last two days and he gobbled it up. Here he is licking the spoon! I'm not sure how much I should be letting him attempt self-feeding. I'm sort of a neat-freak about James and need to let it go, I guess. I know he wants to dive into the bowl so badly, but I don't let him touch it and only let him have the spoon at the end of the meal.
Sitting up on his own...only for a few seconds at a time.
Whee!! Eating cereal is funny!
"photo shoot" on our new floor
On Sunday afternoon James had his first taste of baby rice cereal. You'll hear my mom in the background, as she and my brother Jeff were over. He had quite the audience. Since then I've fed him cereal every afternoon...and he LOVES it! I think there's hardly anything cuter than the bits of mush all over his tiny face. Next week I think we may try avocado or sweet potatoes.
He doesn't look too bad for a baby with a nasty cold...poor little guy. Today we had our second visit to the doctor this week. After days of a stuffy, drippy nose , a low-grade fever, and a terrible coughing fit this morning we went back this morning and he had several tests done; blood work, x-rays and all! He was actually a little champ and didn't cry a bit. He tested positive for RSV, which is, from what I understand, a really bad cold, instead of just a cold, pretty common and contagious. They ruled out pneumonia, though, which is a blessing! But all I can do is try to keep him comfortable and as 'upright' as possible. He's still pretty perky and playful. Hopefully Mark will avoid the cold. I haven't been so fortunate, catching it yesterday morning. Yucky! 