February 24th, 2010 by Overallgirl

Nolan had been pretty much a 9.8 on the cranky scale for about a whole week and at night he had started waking up every 1-2 hours.  We thought maybe even though he wasn’t quite 4 months old, and they now suggest you wait till 6 months old to start solids, that perhaps he really needed more food since he’s big for his age.  So we tried a couple days of supplementing with home made baby food.  This one here is mashed up banana and breastmilk which he really liked, and later we tried sweet potato.  He still sticks his tongue out instead of in when the food comes at him so plenty got all over his face, but he seemed to enjoy the new experience.  However, after a couple days of this, we noticed no improvement in sleep pattern or crankiness-level.  Since there are many reasons to wait to start solids,  related to helping prevent food allergies later in life and such like that, we decided to back off on the solids again.  I think maybe he was either “growth-spurting” or just having a phase, because this week he seems to be a lot more at peace again like his old self- and while the sleeping hasn’t improved dramatically I’ve gotten more used to it so that’s okay.

February 24th, 2010 by Overallgirl

Back home, we found Nolan having fun with Grammy and we collected everything we brought to her house for the day in one pile to show how involved toting around a little one is….

February 22nd, 2010 by Overallgirl

Today as I was getting Nolan out of the car to go grocery shopping, this cute elderly couple were pulling away in their small truck- they saw Nolan and stopped the car, the wife rolling down the window.  They cooed and awwed at Nolan and asked my name, then the husband pulled out his wallet and gave me a dollar for Nolan.  So sweet!

As for the photos, it was getting towards the end of the day recently and I noticed the lighting outside seemed nice, so I outfitted Nolan in a disposable diaper (our cloth diaper bums just don’t fit into any of the cute clothes) and a couple of cute outfits to take a few pics.  He was getting tired though so I didn’t get smiles but nevertheless he survived my need to take pictures of him and I survived without getting smiles….