Having FUN with Dad

Jeremy got some great pictures of Jaydon while they were playing together one morning. This happy time must have lasted awhile because our camera is so stinkin' slow that we never seem to get the picture we think we are taking.

Rolling around

This is a video taken of Jaydon rolling around. Of course when I turned on the camera he stopped doing it as well as he had been. He insists on having toys in his hands most of the time hr rolls around and he continues to be a very active boy. I am also very behind on posting so this happened quite awhile ago - early March (I have resorted to making up dates that I think these things occur).

Happy Birthday Than and Emi!

Our neighbors were having a birthday party for both of their kids at the local bouncy house place. We stopped by with Jaydon for awhile and enjoyed the festivities. The bouncy places sure are fun - lots of different areas and the parents can play too.

Birthday girl Emi (1) and her mom Sarah

Birthday boy Than (3 - tan shirt, back to picture) and Emi with their dad Jim (I know this isn't a very good picture but it was the best I had.

Jaydon watching everything with Dad.

Jaydon and Mom.

FOOD!!

Well we started solids on the first of March and it has been an adventure. His first taste was rice cereal - he hated it. The texture was a bit much for him and he would gag nicely. We them moved onto sweet potatoes and added avocado. He enjoys the sweet potatoes (yam) a lot and likes the avocado if it is really smooth (still not a fan of texture). I am planning on peas and squash coming next.

First bite, I enjoy the "mom what are you doing to me?" expression.

hmmm...not so sure, so he likes to let it dribble down his chin.

He likes to hold his own spoon but then he just has it in his mouth most of the time making it difficult to get our spoons in.

Ahhh...sweet potato - 'now this I like mom so I will continue to help bring the spoon to my mouth with my hand and make BIG messes.'

Happy messy boy!

6 Months!

We can't believe Jaydon is already 6 months old! He is growing and changing so quickly it is a bit scary. He weighed 18lbs 12oz (so he has definitely slowed down in the weight gain category) but has evened out and all of his measurements put him in the 70-80th percentile. We have a very healthy baby boy on our hands.

He wants to crawl pretty badly but so far has only managed to scooch an inch or two forward - he continues to roll around all over the place and has developed strong sitting abilities. He continues to try and pull himself to sitting from a laid back position and is getting closer to achieving this, he has very strong abs, back and legs.

Great picture of leaving his 6 month check up after getting a bunch of shots :-(

He likes to look at the colors and grab his toys and blanket and anything else that comes into reach...paper, stuff mommy and daddy are eating/drinking etc.

I knew I shouldn't have posted about his sleeping progressing on the blog. The very night after I did that he regressed and hasn't gotten back in the swing of things. He actually is still napping for longer but is having a hard time going more than 4 hours during a stretch at night and even the 4 hour chunk seems to happen only once. Here he was on one of his most tired afternoons.

Tired boy - he reacted a bit to his flu shot so he also wasn't feeling all that well and who really knows but we think he might be teething.

Just chillin' with his toys.

Testing out the highchair

We took advantage of the Babies R Us trade in deal and purchased Jaydon's highchair. Here are a couple pictures of trying it out before he actually tried food. He enjoys playing with his spoon and at this point everything goes in his mouth so I can't brag that it is intelligence for knowing to put the spoon in his mouth. :-)

We have already removed the red insert to help cushion smaller babies.

Visit with Grandpa and Nana

My dad and stepmom came into town for a visit and got to spend some time with Jaydon. I was a terrible picture taker and realized after they left I had hardly any documentation of the visit. As has been mentioned before, Jaydon isn't the most easy going child so he did not spend a lot of time cuddling with grandpa or nana but they each got a few good moments.

Jaydon did seem to take to my dad, he smiled for him a lot and appeared to be more content being held by grandpa than anyone else other than Jeremy or me. Jaydon already seems to have a thing for his grandpas.

Nana helped us go high chair shopping. This isn't the one we got but that will come in another post.

Jaydon helped Grandpa figure out what cars to throw to the crib. He really just wanted to eat the cards but it was cute to see him 'playing.' This will be a game he will learn and play with his Grandpa the same way I learned it and played with my Grandma.