Eat Something! (said in a Jewish motherly voice)

Around Thanksgiving this year, we started Nash on solids.  Let me just say that there is no need to feel like you ever have mastered something in motherhood. As soon as you feel as though you have a grasp on something, they change and grow and whatever you just learned is completely obsolete. It's like trying to stay ahead of technology; it's never going to happen. He seemed to enjoy rice cereal ok, but I feel like it's just a filler and really want to raise an adventurous eater. After all, Isaac and I are foodies of sorts and want our son to enjoy a wide variety.  I decided, before he was born, that it would be very important for me to make his baby food. I am a great cook and I was sure that whatever I made him he would gobble up with a large smile on his face. I am still waiting for the big smile after he eats.  The one stand by that I know he will eat without crying, twisting away and contorting his face are pears. This little man loves his pears. Thankfully, we get a lot of pears this time of year in our Bountiful Basket and have been able to keep him satisfied with that. I keep trying new combinations, but after so many looks from your infant child that seem to say "What are you trying to do Mother?! Poison me?!" I get a little discouraged and go back to the stand by of pears and rice cereal.
Last week we were in the grocery store and I forgot to pack him any solid food. He was STARVING and creating quite a scene. I ran to the baby food isle and found a package of Plum Organics baby food, threw off the top and squirted a little into his mouth. He ate the entire thing before we got to the checkstand to pay for it.  All these weeks of trying to make the most delicious baby food and my son prefers packaged goo to my delightful cooking.  It makes me think of the time Nic and I would beg my mom to please buy the Chips Ahoy cookies instead of homemade chocolate chip cookies.  As a mother it just breaks your heart and you secretly want to kill Nabisco and all the packaged food companies for poisoning your darling child's system with the added sugar and sodium and brain with marketing ploys.
As of now, Nash is beginning to eat better and his taste buds seem to be expanding past pears.  I just keep trying to cram healthful things down his throat in hopes that one day we find the magic combination that makes his face say "Wow Mom! That was the best thing I have ever had. Can I have another tablespoon of it?"

A Christmas miracle! (of sorts)

For the first time EVER, I asked all my family and friends to not get me any gifts this year, and to please just donate some money to my "buy Isaac a Nook Tablet" fund. You see, I am a huge Android geek, and I also love reading. The new B&N Nook Tablet is pretty much the perfect gift for me, but since $250 is out of the normal gift price range i figured I would just ask people to throw me a few bones and get it for myself around Christmas, and BAM Merry Christmas to me. Lia and I went to the Christmas party for my new job with InfuseMed, and there was a gift exchange. First move, I steal Brian Regan (the comedian) tickets, and they are almost immediately stolen from me, leaving me with the opportunity to pick a  new gift or steal again. I pick a huge box, I assume to be a TV, and I'm right. I pick this box, because, well- I figure someone will at some point want it, and steal it, leaving me open to steal yet again. I figured right, and the TV was gone, and I'm up. I go up, shake a few boxes and select a smallish one that's heavier than the ones I am certain are gift cards, and open it it up front in view of everyone. I am pretty sure the expression on my face was a mix of "I just pooped my pants" and "holy crap, no way". In my hands was the very thing I have been pining for since I heard the rumors of its existence, a brand new Nook Tablet. A bunch of people started asking me, "hey what's that" and "what is that anyway" and I calmly sat down, and put the Nook down between my feet on the floor. Anyone who talked to me or asked me about it, I quickly shushed, or threatened to stab, and after 20+ more people, and a lot of really cool other gifts I cared little about, I was still holding it at the end of the game. Largely overlooked and forgotten due to how I handled it, or attention drawn away by bigger shinier gifts, I left the party with a brand new Nook in hand. I am pretty much a kid on Christmas morning already, and It was only Dec 2nd. Anyway, It was pretty much a miracle to me, and I'll have stars in my eyes for at least the rest of the month!

Lia says I'm just like Ralphie with his Red Ryder, only it's way less likely I'll shoot my eye out :)

Grammy is hilarious

Nash Is Eating Solids

Nash is 6 Months Old!

Well, folks, we made through the first 6 months of Nash's life.  I still can't believe how fast time is going and every day it seems that he finds something new he can do.  It has definitely been the month of major milestones and achievements! Here is this months list of favorites:

1. He thinks that baby in the mirror is freaking hilarious

2. He thinks Daddy is freaking hilarious

3. He thinks Tia is freaking hilarious

4. He is sitting up all on his own, a whole new world!

5. He talks and talks and talks

6. When someone he loves comes close to his face, he softly touches their face with one or two hands. So sweet.

7. He started eating solid food. (It was a challenge the first few days, but I think we are getting the hang of it)

8. His little personality is really starting to emerge.  He lets us know what he likes and what he doesn't. If he loves it he smiles and talks and laughs, if he doesn't he makes his body flat (planks) and does a Gremlin growl cry.

9. He is sleeping mostly through the night.

10. He is just such a happy baby. Everything makes his smile and laugh.

Stats: 14 lb 14 oz, 26 inches long