Attempt numero dos to introduce Gabriel to rice cereal went much, much better. He actually took a few bites of cereal off his spoon and swallowed it. It wasn't much, but it was enormous progress over yesterday.

Now we just need to work on consolidating his naps and getting him to recognize that 3:30am is not an acceptable wake-up time. We're ( Read more... )

We made attempt #1 at introducing Gabriel to solid food today. As per the instructions, we mixed 1 tablespoon of single-grain rice cereal with 5 tablespoons of formula pre-mixed with water. We used the special tiny plastic spoon that I bought just for the occasion. But he was having none of it. He seemed perplexed by the idea of the spoon in his ( Read more... )

Know what's more fun than trimming an infant's fingernails? Trimming his toenails. I'm pretty sure I just gave my son 10 soon-to-be ingrowns ( Read more... )