Time to Eat!

A couple pictures of Cole eating his rice cereal. Above: at the start of the meal and below: near the end, with what didn't make it in his mouth! Cole seems to prefer Jeff feeding it to him over myself... maybe the schooooo(airplaine sound) he makes with the spoon as it heads towards his mouth?!! I tried it myself today and had a little better luck! We're just offering him the cereal after one of his feedings each day for the time being. He usually eats apx. 4 Tbsp. and seems to do well taking it in his high chair since it has a recline position.

Mmmmm, Rice Cereal!

The plan had been to hold off with cereal till 6 months. But with the naps getting fewer and shorter and shorter we needed something else to try. If I think back, daytime sleep started being disrupted slowly around 2 1/2 mths since then it's just deteriated to what we have now, almost no naps! He's maybe gained a pound in that whole month and a half (not that my arms are complaining) but I wonder if maybe because he's 18-19lbs his body needs the extra nutrition? Well, it's worth a try!
The 1st attempt feeding him rice cereal today went well. It was really cute... he was upset waiting for the spoon each time I had to refill it but when it was in his mouth he made a Mmm sound and for it being the first time I think he did really well with keeping a majority of it in his mouth!

Cole loving his Jumperoo!

jump, jump, jump!

sooo happy! (and so much drool!)
a classic Cole look, usually accompanied by a high pitch squeal!

Cole turning his head (to the side that's difficult for him) doing much better after just a couple days of neck excercises!

Besides Cole's newest and most favourite toy the only other major thing that's been happening for him is his extended night sleep. A couple weeks ago we were working on slowly adjusting his bedtime earlier. The past week or so he has been doing his last feeding at 7:00 and down to bed for the night by 8:00. Great! or so we thought until his naptime schedule in the day proceeded to go down the drain! His a.m. nap he will still go down for no problem, sometimes he'll wake up early though, the afternoon one is hit and miss... I've had a couple days that I haven't been able to get him down at all and that leads to a really rough night for all of us! We're still trying to figure out exactly what we're going to do... cut the morning nap short and hope that this makes it easier to get him down in the afternoon? or cut back on the amount of night-time sleep??

Cole is 4 months old tomorrow! Our little baby is growing so fast!

A Visit to Cole's New Doctor

Neither of us were too happy with his previous doctor so last Friday we met with a new pediatrician for Cole. We wanted to get advice regarding his head shape which we've noticed has started to look flat on the one side. Diagnosis: torticollitis. This is a condition that in Cole's case means that due to weak neck muscles on the one side he never fully rotated his head 180 degrees. Alot of more serious cases are easily spotted by the head always slumped to one side. Unfortunately as slight of a problem as Cole's condition is, and easily corrected with neck excercises we are now doing with him, his head shape has been affected by his constant favouritism of the one side. There are very few clinics in Canada that deal with this. And nothing is covered by our health care system here anyways. We are both familiar with torticollitis since our niece Caitlin also had it. It will most likely involve Cole being fitted for a helmet that will help his head conform back to a more symetrical shape. We are waiting to hear back from my sister who was in touch with Caitlin's doctor to get a reccommendation for a good orthopedic clinic in Detriot. Thank goodness we live in Windsor as we'll no doubt have to make a few trips back and forth. Below is an older picture of our twin nieces Caitlin and Mackenzie from back when Caitlin still had her helmet on.

Labour Day Weekend

It was so nice to have Jeff home for a four day weekend! Finally time to get caught up on the house, yardwork and never-ending pile of laundry.
On Sunday, Jeff's twin brother Sean, his wife Shannon and their kids, Sarah and Kristen were down for the afternoon. We had a nice visit and some great food from a little Italian pizzaria up the road. Well, at least from what I heard the pizza was good. Cole hasn't been reacting well to dairy so I try to stay away from it, my bruschetta -hold the cheese:( was still pretty tasty though.

Cole meeting his cousin Kristen who's starting JK this year already!

Cole's cousins, Sarah and Kristen

Rub-a-dub-dub!

Rub-a-dub-dub, Cole's in the tub! He loves bath-time, ecspecially since he became big enough to use this duck tub. He always lounges with his one arm swung over the side and keeps himself balance with his feet propped at the end. And whenever he's having a particularily fussy day, he always ends up having numerous baths to calm him down(yesterday he was in 3-4 x!)

A Few Pictures

Cole sitting on the couch
Cole playing with his Twirly Whirly toy... he loves it!
Daddy reading Cole a story