Yum Yum Carrots!

I need to post the picture I have of Andrew eating his carrots. He has orange goo smeared all over his face and bib and is grinning at the camera. Such a cutie.

He did really well with some really thick rice cereal on Sunday, so I figured it was time to start the jarred baby food. He had carrots for the first time on Monday. It went really well! The first time he had rice cereal, he took maybe 2 bites and then cried. I was expecting more of the same with the carrots, but he ate nearly half a jar of them his first time out. He startled at the flavor when I gave him his first bite on Monday, but then he seemed to get used to it. Tuesday and today have gone well, too. He startles at the flavor every day, and today he didn't even seem to like it at first. But supposedly it can take up to ten times of trying a new food before a baby decides whether to like it or not. I guess we'll see.

Dr. Hays, his pediatrician, told us to keep him on a single food for several days before introducing a new one. That way if he has a reaction to something we won't have to guess at what caused it, like we would if he tried several new foods at a time. I'm keeping him on each new food for 4 days. So far so good with carrots, and we're in day 3. On Friday, he'll get to try peas. Peas are my FAVORITE, so I hope he likes them. If he does, I can probably talk Terry into having them more often!

He's become a champ at rolling over onto his tummy, and he's started sleeping that way. I kept him from doing that as a newborn at my pediatrician's recommendation, and because he kept setting off our Angel Care monitor when he was on his tummy. An Angel Care monitor is one that goes under the mattress and monitors breathing and movement. It goes off if no movement (ie, breathing) is detected within 20 seconds. The fact that he was setting it off made me wonder if he was experiencing some sort of apnea. He never set it off on his back. But anyway, now that he can flip himself over, according to our doctor, it's okay for him to stay that way. Not that I could probably stop him if I wanted to, though. I'd be in there 12 times a night flipping him!

Terry and I are doing well. This summer semester schedule is rough, and we don't see a lot of each other during the week. We're making it, though.

More to come.