Lucky for us little guy finally started eating food (and taking a bottle!) Accordingly I've been making all sorts of baby food: squash, green beans, prunes, pears, peaches, applesauce, bananas, beets and more. He prefers sweets, I guess I had too many during pregnancy. To make the food my immersion blender has been my best friend. That was until it sent me to the Emergency room.... 4 stitches later, a few weeks later and I am not completely petrified when I use the blender, but I am very sure to UNPLUG IT before I stick my hands anywhere near the blades!
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| First Food Thanksgiving |
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| Food Expert-Yummy beets! |
Unfortunately a week later Mark and I found ourselves in the ER again.... this time because I had the flu. There was really nothing they could do, but we wanted to make sure that was all it was after a few days of high fevers, achy bones and inability to move. We wanted to be sure we would be able to travel the next day to NC, for Christmas break.
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| Rice Park |
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| Exploring St. Paul at Christmas Time |
So the next day we left for NC, Christmas Day. We arrived late and spent the evening alone at my brother's empty apartment. It was kind of special, our first Christmas a a family of 3, just us, TGI Fridays and Anchorman 2.
We had a great trip the rest of the time in NC. It was so fun for us to watch Henry and Dean starting to interact together *i.e. Henry stealing Dean's toys. But it must have been motivating because by the end of the trip Dean was crawling! It's an army crawl and it was slow at first, but he started crawling.
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| Jealous Cousins |
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| Crawling |
We also enjoyed time with Jimpa and Grame, going for walks and letting mommy and daddy sleep in! (It was during this time that Dean still didn't sleep.... yes past tense!) I also got to meet my sweet friend Andrea's newborn baby Davis. I can't believe we are now to this stage of our life.
After enjoying quite a few days of warm weather in NC, we headed back to MN and the cold finally came! Lucky for us though, it hasn't been that long of a spell and we're already back to the 30's again. Warm enough for us to go for walks with Deanie!
This week is a pretty special week because it will be Henry's 1st birthday, and Mark's birthday as well! I only work 4 days and I'm getting ready to go to a new fitness training for dance called Oula in a few weeks. With that and work and hanging out with friends doing Paint nights and planning Baby showers we are staying pretty busy. Mark and I are even hoping for a date night soon! We went to a Vikings game (thanks to our sweet friend Julie) and hopefully will start being able to get out more BECAUSE:
DEAN NOW SLEEPS MOST OF THE NIGHT!
Now don't congratulate us yet...
1. Yes I still feed him 1 time even though I've been told he doesn't need it, I don't believe it :)
2. Yes, he's still in the swing BUT it's off... he just likes the security of being locked in, and doesn't like the expansiveness of the crib.
3. He still stinks at naps.
4. Still wakes up at 6am.
But I have to say I'm really starting to feel back to "my self" since he's been born. Mark and I are finding more time for ourselves, Dean is becoming more independent and I am more rested. It's definitely bittersweet in a way, seeing him grow, but lucky for me I have LOADS of friends having babies this year and I will get my newborn fix from them.
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| Cousin time |
Now for tons of pictures :)
Very nice! a couple of the pics' links didn't work though
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