Learning New Things

He is facinated by my computer. I was letting him touch it & touch the keys, so I thought it ould be cute to take some pictures. Then his sister wanted to type and then they started to fight over the keyboard. Oh! It starts already!

Unlike his sister, Henry does not like to stand. We are having to work on it with him and distract him so that he stand a little longer each time and starts strengthening those muscles. So, after reviewing some pictures of his sis, I remembered how I put toys for her on the ottoman. I also got out one of the activity tables and figured he would get intrigues by the toys and want to stand. Worked!

New Foods

A favorite new food of his is graham crackers. He is picking it up and feeding himself and gums it nicely. This picture was take today. Today, he also tried peaches for the first time. His first taste of it was canned peaches pureed with rice cereal, but then later he was eyeing my whole canned peaches, so I cut up some of that & fed it to him. Loved it!

This was Sunday lunch when we were at Bd's Mongolian. Daddy is feeding him some of my white rice. He loved that too. I know we didn't feed Isabel these kind of solids this early, but we were new parents and were so sure she would choke on anything not pureed.

25 Weeks Old

I picked up matching jammies for them from Gymboree. Isabel was so excited that she & Henry were "twins". They actually got another matching set as well. The best part is that as long as Isabel doesn't wear hers out he will get them as a hand-me-down when he gets old. Although, at the rate he's growing he'll be wearing these in a year. :)

Next month he turns both 26 weeks and 6 month on Friday. On Thursday he will have his 6-month well child visit and will get a couple more vaccines.

Mid-Week With Henry

Well, this week is Earth Week and a lot of the activities involve sister, so poor little Henry doesn't make as many photos. So, while we were playing outside today I took some pictures of him. He loves swinging.

24 Weeks Old

Pulling off his socks is one of his new favorite things to do. And no, he isn't wearing a diaper in this picture. I like to let him have some diaper-free time for a couple of reasons, one is that is helps prevent diaper rash and two is that he moves around A LOT more if that diaper comes off. I don't think the diaper is that restrictive, I just think he thinks it's party time when the diaper comes off. He is going to grow up to be one of those kids that removes his clothes & runs around the house naked all the time.
He has gotten really good at sitting up all the way on his own unaided. The only thing he struggles with is controlling how fast he can pull himself up from picking up a toy. He usually pulls himself up way too fast and then keep heading backwards.

Ok, this is actually a tame picture of how his sister dresses him up when she plays dress up. Seriously, tame. This boy is so tolerant of her dressing him up. He doesn't care and doesn't rip anything off his head or face. He just keeps on concentrating on what he was playing with and keeps on playing.
Speaking of concentrating on toys, I just gave this toy to him yesterday to explore and he has the shutting the pieces thing figured out. Watching him play is different than when Isabel would play. She was a studier and would observe for a while and then try it out once she knew she could do it, that is still how she is when it comes to learning new things, if she watches me do it first she's got it and it's easy-peasy, but make her do it without seeing it then she gets nervous. But Henry, his style seems to be different, the style that seems to be emerging is, IF I want to do it I will jump right in and do it, and do it and do it and I will keep doing it until I get it figured out or you take me away. And if my sister tries to get in my way I will work faster so as to not let her do it for me, oh! And I will probably pound, pull & smash things to see if that makes it work.

It was hilarious watching him push the characters down and have his sister come try to help him. He started frantically slapping at them trying to get them down before she could touch them.

Here is Henry's 24 week picture.

Last Day in the Dells

Henry threw up early this morning, so we had a low-key morning and went over to the waterpark at lunchtime. He didn't appear sick before or after throwing up, so I don't know if it's anything like what I had. We had a good time in the Waterdome. The sun was shining and we were all slathered in sunscreen and got to enjoy the water. Henry napped & ate much of the time we were there, but he did get in the water.

Trip to WI Dells

Henry is doing well sleeping in a new location. They had a pack & play for us to use and he & sister are sharing a room (which we weren't sure if one or the other would wake each other, but they did good last night and hopefully will tonight too.) The only issue is with a baby who doesn't sit up on his own, we have to do a lot of holding and he gets bored of laying under the table playing with the toys attached.

Someone took this picture of us while we were waiting for our shuttle since we only stayed an hour & daddy & sister were staying 2 hours.

On the way here we stopped in Sparta, WI at McDonald's so we all could have lunch. Henry was just in a trance looking at all the bright colors at the playland.