I'm sure your eyes aren't lying, when you view the joy from Luke's face as he anxiously gorges himself of rice cereal and formula with a side of peaches. Yes, Luke got his first taste of what I call quasi-human food. No cornpops, french toast or bacon today buddy, you get blah followed with blah with a side of semi peach tasting muck. Man he can't wait to have some more of this food of the future.
After his long battle in the rice and peach fields it was off for a round of 'clean-up', but Luke wasn't quite ready, so Jenn improvised and killed 2 birds with 1 stone. They got cleaned up and read a new book while in the tub. You can see how serious Luke is taking his book reading.
(Here, Luke is testing mommy's strength for Dr. Garrett)
Recently we took Luke in for his 4month check up and for a nice dosage of shots for good measure. Luke, at16lbs, and just over 25 inches in length, is officially in the 75 percentile. He did very well, but it was tough to watch the needles do their job while he helplessly screamed for dear life. We managed through it and cheered him on, but needless to say our hearts for one moment, hurt more than 1,000 more days in FL. After his shots he did only manage to do 15 pull-ups and 32 push-ups and sit-ups in 32 seconds and is starting to read at the 12th grade level just that day. Wow, boosters shots are good :)
At least he makes going to the pediatrician look good.
Luke is gaining strength everyday. He now can sit up very well with some support and can stand for some time with only light assistance from us holding his hands. He is strengthening his balance daily with a routine of strength and condition classes from mommy as well as rudimentary tasks that a person of 120+ days would be doing, like Attemptive Crawling and Rolling Over Clinics. He also is making attempts to pull himself up towards us while he is laying on the floor or our laps.
Recently, Jenn and I have challenged each other to find more economic ways of living in our household/lifestyle. Here's one clear example and now you know, fancy gifts aren't always needed. Anything that makes noise or shines will work just fine! Yes, that means Aluminum foil and rocks in a bucket from Santa, better than a stick in the eye, right?
(Before, fancy/technical child-attention getter device)
(Now, good ole 'bang on the drum, can')
(Before, Fancy high-tech internet video games)
(Now, Dollar Bin "inflato-frog")
Luke ventured out this past weekend with Mommy to attend a birthday party for the family Jenn used to nanny for. It was at their local community pool and Luke got his feet wet! Totally not fair that he gets to wear bibs and no shirt in FL and Jenn will not approve of that for me.
Today, Luke and Baron played in their own pool at Grandma Schleifs and after all the crying and tears subsided Luke realized that water was his friend and he and Baron continued to try and catch the amazing falling water drops from the towel trick.
We might have a teether-attemptive-thumb-sucker on our hands.........
..........stay tuned!
