This weekend, Karston decided cruising is fun. Yes, he'd like to do more of that. Luckily this was a holiday weekend so that we had time to walk around with him, and to enjoy his new skill! His cousin Dana was in town and got to see the little cruiser do his thing.
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Swimming with Teeth
Karston has been chewing on his fingers recently, but since it looks a lot like sucking on his thumb, we haven't thought anything about it. Early this afternoon I took a peek in his mouth, and saw a new tooth on top. I know that baby teeth tend to come in pairs, meaning another one on the bottom, so I looked there ... and yes, saw a new tooth on bottom. So today he has two new teeth, numbers six and seven, both just starting to peek through at the same time. That might explain all the drool yesterday! Kurtis thought it was raining in the parking lot yesterday after dinner with friends ... but it was just baby drool!
Later this afternoon, we met Daddy's family for a swim in the pool before dinner. Karston says being in a pool is fine, pool toys are interesting, but that he still needs holding all the time. He didn't want to be in his baby float, and he certainly wasn't ready to try on his life preserver. Karston says all hugs, all the time. If that's in a pool, sure, whatever.
Later this afternoon, we met Daddy's family for a swim in the pool before dinner. Karston says being in a pool is fine, pool toys are interesting, but that he still needs holding all the time. He didn't want to be in his baby float, and he certainly wasn't ready to try on his life preserver. Karston says all hugs, all the time. If that's in a pool, sure, whatever.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
He Started It!
This evening while we were getting Karston ready for bed, he grabbed onto my shirt near my shoulders and hauled himself upright. Great, that's what I want, the kid who wants to play when I want to put him to bed! Of course, that happens most nights. He peeked over my right shoulder at Daddy, and started giggling. Then he hid his face in my chest. Then he leaned way, way over to look around my left arm for Daddy, and started giggling loudly again. And he repeated it again and again: he started a game of peek-a-boo with Daddy! He does sometimes enjoy a good game of peek-a-boo (with variations, like peek-a-boo with a stuffed animal), but when he started it and Daddy ran with it ... Oh wow was that fun!
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Gnawing
Karston was chewing on his foot today. A baby with his foot in his mouth isn't surprising (quick check on flickr, this especially), so I didn't pay much attention because he looked pretty happy. By this afternoon, he had gnawed a hole in his romper! I tickled his feet while changing his diaper, and noticed that I didn't feel foot on the side with a new hole bitten in the romper! (I can attest, those teeth are sharp!) Turns out there was a clean diaper wipe in the bottom! At first I thought it was a dryer sheet, but it had a cute imprint like a diaper wipe. So Karston was chewing his clothes off to get the diaper wipe out! Whoops. We have no idea how or when that got in there.
Karston hasn't eaten well for a week. He didn't eat well last Thursday, but it's been really bad since Friday. He said no to spoon all week! This kid used to love eating whatever Daddy presented on a spoon. I guess that means he wants to start feeding himself finger food, but he doesn't know what to do with most of the AlphaBits we give him. However, this evening he gnawed off a piece of bread! Most of the bread he shredded into tiny crumbs, but one corner went in his mouth, bite, twist, mash, swallow. I really hope he's got the hang of it because I want him to eat and thrive. Plus his only serious nutrition right now is from nursing, and I did mention those new teeth are sharp. I'm glad he's still breastfeeding, so I know he's getting something good in his stomach, but I'll be happy when he's eating in his high chair again too.
Of course, if Karston isn't eating well, he's hungry. And if he's hungry, and his only calories come from nursing, he's waking up a lot at night. So we're pretty tired after a week of this. And I suppose that's how Karston got a clean diaper wipe down in the foot of his romper that he tried to chew out.
Karston hasn't eaten well for a week. He didn't eat well last Thursday, but it's been really bad since Friday. He said no to spoon all week! This kid used to love eating whatever Daddy presented on a spoon. I guess that means he wants to start feeding himself finger food, but he doesn't know what to do with most of the AlphaBits we give him. However, this evening he gnawed off a piece of bread! Most of the bread he shredded into tiny crumbs, but one corner went in his mouth, bite, twist, mash, swallow. I really hope he's got the hang of it because I want him to eat and thrive. Plus his only serious nutrition right now is from nursing, and I did mention those new teeth are sharp. I'm glad he's still breastfeeding, so I know he's getting something good in his stomach, but I'll be happy when he's eating in his high chair again too.
Of course, if Karston isn't eating well, he's hungry. And if he's hungry, and his only calories come from nursing, he's waking up a lot at night. So we're pretty tired after a week of this. And I suppose that's how Karston got a clean diaper wipe down in the foot of his romper that he tried to chew out.
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Ten Months
Wow, we hit double digits (for months)! This was the month for cruising, drinking from a cup, two more teeth, and babbling. Eating still goes in phases, some weeks he eats more than others. Some weeks he eats a lot less, so I think he's dropped below the 5th percentile for weight. He's still proportional, but for an average 6-month-old. He nursed a lot this month when he wasn't eating or when his new teeth bothered him, painfully so. He's very good at laughing, and he finds many things funny (the cat, the dog, being carried up stairs). The next milestone I want to see is the one where he sleeps through the night most nights because I'm really starting to drag ...
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