Birthday party!

Soren had a fabaluss time at his party yesterday. He basically got carried around and fed/watered by lots of new people, which he thought was fanTAStic. And he *loves* all the boxes that his new toys came in!

Soren's weekend escape

Soren took a weekend trip to Summerville to visit Mamie and Papi-Grandpa. Here are some pretty cute photos of him cheesing it up for the camera.

One benefit of Soren's recent illness...

Last Wednesday Soren had his first sick visit to the pediatrician, who diagnosed him with croup and a bacterial ear infection. His ear wasn't hurting yet, thankfully, so he was in fairly good humor, but the croup can be dangerous so he had to sleep in the bed with mom and dad (twist his arm). When he was all clear and ready to go back into his own room Saturday night, Soren wanted NONE of it. He literally woke up every 45 minutes to an hour ALL night. I finally gave in at 3:45am just so I could get a few hours' sleep.

Luckily that nonsense only lasted one night. Monday night he slept straight through from 9pm to 3am, then came into our room at 5:30am. Then last night he slept in his bed from 9pm to 7:30am and he only woke up once at 4! It was awesome! Of course, I woke up at 6:45 totally nervous and had to watch him on the baby monitor, and then had to open his door just to be sure, but maybe tomorrow I can sleep until he wakes up.

Fun Swedish clothes

A really cool kid's clothing line from Sweden that we really like is about to come to the US! Now we can order neat stuff without paying a TON in shipping (not to mention the crappy exchange rate...)

http://www.polarnopyretusa.com.

How CUTE is this stuff!? Like if Ikea sold clothes!

Happy Easter from Soren!

Nanny got Julian and Soren bunny ears! Soren apparently enjoys them greatly.

party party party!

r.s.v.p.

Finished, now get me outta here!

This is Soren's first sign, which he has been doing for a week or so in response to me asking, "Soren, are you finished eating?" (while doing the sign to him). To his credit, he seems to only do it back when he is actually finished. He does not, however, think it is appropriate for me to ask him if he is finished with his bath, and laughs like I am making a joke. I guess he thinks it only applies to dinner time!

This is what the sign is actually supposed to look like...we will be working on technique refinement this week.

We are still working on hungry, more, yogurt, banana, water, cheese, cheerios, and club soda. We'll probably start working on hurt, too, since he gets a new bruise every other day as he balances for more and more seconds hands-free. He's up to about 7 seconds of serious balancing effort.

Thumbs down on the banana pear concoction? Really?

This card I found online sums it up accurately, I think:

Dinner update

Soren wasn't crazy about all the food I made last weekend.

• Swiss chard puréed with chicken stock + ground baked potato skins - NOPE. Too salty (the stock was really concentrated). I mixed it with the baked potato, which he then ate, but not with gusto. The rest of the chard I mixed with some pumpkin purée and green beans with almonds. He likes this mess!

• Mashed baked potato + cheddar - he liked it fine, but didn't LOVE it.

• Polenta + fresh mozzarella - he seemed to think it was only okay.

• Baked sweet potato mashed with cheddar - YUM! He loves his sweet potatoes.

Tonight I made some chunkier stuff. He has been eating green beans, banana chunks, black beans, pasta letters, and cheese with his fingers, so I am probably not going to be doing too much puréeing anymore.

Sadly, when something is too slippery for him to easily pick up, he just uses his face to eat it right off the table. Poor monkey! Mom starves him!

Some items for this week:


• Puréed stewed prunes + millet.
• Cooked pear + banana mashed with millet (hope he likes millet!).
• Roasted yellow pepper, puréed & blended with goat cheese + pesto. Roasting the pepper under the broiler was the best fun of the evening. I highly recommend it!

Dance, monkey!

Soren attended his first concert today!

It was for positive hip hop for kids, which was pretty cute.

He appeared somewhat overwhelmed by all the crazy children bouncing off the walls as well as the loud music.

So, we left early to get some beers downstairs (it was at the Globe)...

Soren stuck his hand in Tommy's Guinness within one second of the waitress putting it on the table. She clearly didn't have kids of her own. Soren had a slice of Swiss cheese...