We talked about food this time, as sometime between now and 6 months he'll start eating. Pediatricians no longer recommend giving rice cereal first -- our guidelines were just to try a fruit, a vegetable, or a meat. Try one for a few days, then introduce another. That way we can figure out if he has a reaction to any foods. It seems crazy that he'll be eating solids soon, but the way he watches us eat and just stares as the food goes in our mouths tells us that he's almost ready. Hopefully he can get a little better at sitting up before he starts getting really into it!
He weighed 16 lb, 5 oz, was 26 inches long, and his head was 16.5 inches around. That was 60th, 80th, and 75th percentile for boys. Here's a family photo we took, courtesy of the mirror in the doctor's office.
I should add that we had a blast UNTIL shots time. Daddy got to do the honors of holding him this time and comforting him afterward. He only cried out really once per shot and was calm and happy-ish after a minute or so. It's so hard to not be able to explain to him why he's getting the shots!
And here are some recent videos of our happy baby.
He has some serious cradle cap, so we have to wash his hair with Selsun Blue once a week. He thought it was HILARIOUS when dad said "blue shampoo" when it was on his head, so now we just say it and he cracks up. Well, when he feels like it. And mostly just when dad says it :)
He found his feet! Though you can clearly see we have work to do on sitting up still.
