Gee, life is a little less exciting when Mom is the only one around to take me on walks, Soren thinks... OK, before I slip into "SorenTalks" mode, I'll switch pronouns and say that these are some precious pictures from last week, when my mom and dad visited for four days and had a great time with their ever-more-interactive grandson.Now Ann & Bill are in California on a road trip in Matilda (our co-shared VW Vanagon -- if you've never checked out my blog of our round-the-country, 10-month trip in 2006, here it is, for the record: www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Waltzing-Matilda/). We won't see them for a month! And it's been longer than that since we got to visit with Jeff's parents. Ah, for the days when families congregated in the same town and never left. (But then we never would be living in Port Townsend, and that would be a shame.)
Soren now likes to finger faces. He grabbed Dad's glasses more than once, and here was "lip-reading." He likes to stick his fingers IN my mouth when he is nursing!
While I was away from home for some work-related interviews, Mom fed Soren bottles of pumped milk. While pumping is not my favorite thing to do (!), I'm grateful that the option exists, and also that Soren takes the bottle like a champ even though is offered it intermittently -- sometimes not for weeks.
He still has only ingested breast milk to date. He has not shown any strong signs of wanting other food, and Jeff is convinced we should wait until he gets a tooth anyway.
You can tell why Soren is considered often "serious" upon first meeting him, with expressions like this one. But when he laughs -- hee, hee, watch out! He's a total charmer.
2 comments:
Hi serious guy! I talked to your grandparents and they're definitely in Soren withdrawal. Have you had any adventures lately?
If we had waited for Evelyn's first tooth before we gave her food, she would have been a year old! She had her toothless grin for 11 months. We actually let her sample little bits of food around 4 1/5 or 5 months just because she was so interested in what was on our plates. she'd grab at something before we could stop her and stick it in her mouth and gummed whatever she had managed to swipe. However, we didn't start with her own food until 6 months. She liked to eat and was quick to learn how to spoon the food for herself. She still likes to eat, just not very much at anyone time--like a little bird.
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