I probably should have done it another day. We just got home last night from driving home from my parents. Both my kids, but especially Katelynn, are overtired and haven't been getting to bed on time. Katelynn is sick to boot. And then here we were at Justin's bedtime trying solids for the first time. I was just so excited I didn't think I could wait another day. He took his first few bites really well. He wasn't overly excited, but he took them like a champ. You never would have guessed he had just started eating. Katelynn is my big helper, and she loves to participate in everything. I had already told her that she could help feed Justin after his first few bites so I let her give it a whirl. Well, she did great at first, but then she started getting too comfortable with it and shoved the spoon in his mouth. The poor little guy got really upset. And if that wasn't bad enough, Katelynn was so upset about us telling her she was done feeding him that we had two crying kids. I tried calming Justin down and feeding him further, but he wouldn't have anything to do with it. I hope he gets over it and wants to try again tomorrow! Here he was before the tears:
And this is how we finished with eating tonight!
On another note, his appointment went really well. He is now 17 pounds, 4 ounces and 28.25 inches long. He is 97% in height- one tall boy!! We talked at length about his sleeping, and we're going to try to not do as many nursings at night to see if it happens. Wish me luck- tonight wasn't so great when he woke up and I wouldn't feed him. There's one thing for sure- both my kids are stubborn!(Lots more pictures to be added in the next few days.. promise!)
I hope nights get easier with Justin!! It is so hard to do. When Olivia was 3 months she out of no where started nursing every 1.5 at night and we went to the doctor and they said when a baby is around 12lbs they don't need the milk at night for calories (not sure if it is true but we bought into it) but are doing it out of comfort...obviously you want to comfort them but the doctor gave us strict orders not too or Olivia would keep wanting to nurse all the time. One bad night later she was sleeping through the night...not to say that it wasn't hard listening to her cry but in the long run one bad night turned into thousands of "great" nights!! Ryan slept through the night pretty much on his own around 3 1/2 months but he was always not a great nurser at night and would sleep long stretches pretty much from birth.
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