Hayden is so much fun right now! He is often a very happy little boy, smiling and laughing away. We love finding new ways to make him laugh. Today while I was feeding him lunch I discovered that if I said ‘SMASH!’ enthusiastically he thought it was the funniest thing ever. So that has been the word of the day. What makes it even funnier is that for some reason when John tries it he gets a blank look or a little laugh that sounds like Hayden is trying to humor him. He does it exactly like I do, but in Hayden’s world it is hilarious when I do it and not very funny when Daddy does it… which makes it quite funny for John and I (or at least for me 🙂 ).
Last night we went out to dinner with Reena, Sunil, and David. We took Hayden and he was the World’s Best Baby. He was so well behaved – the only time he fussed was when he was hungry. He kept fussing while we tried to give him a bottle, but that was because Mommy is a big dumbo and left this little stopper in the bottle that keeps the milk from leaking but therefore makes it impossible for baby to get any milk when trying to eat. Once I sorted that out he chowed down and carried on being World’s Best Baby. I was telling him this morning how proud I was that he was such a good boy, but that unfortunately he is so young that Mommy and Daddy really couldn’t take any credit for his behavior! We are very aware that the Good Baby Gods were smiling on us last night! 🙂
Weaning is going really well. (I know the last post mentioned that I have just started weaning, but I accidentally had that post in my drafts since Valentine’s Day and forgot to publish it. I have actually been weaning him since the beginning of the month.) He is down to only breast feeding at night, which at the moment is about 3 feedings (from the time he goes down for the night until he gets up in the morning). Tomorrow night I will replace one of those with a bottle, leaving only 1 or 2 breast feedings left. Apparently babies go longer between feedings when they are on formula, so once he gets his bottle at night he may naturally drop the middle of the night feeding on his own. He’s not on 100% formula yet, but he only has about 2 oz of breastmilk per bottle now so the vast majority is formula. I will carry on putting a couple of ounces of breastmilk in his formula for a while because I still have frozen milk I have expressed so I will make that go as far as I can.
Nanny Mad is coming to visit in about a week and a half! She will be here for a couple of weeks, then we will all go to Florida and meet up with Michelle there. Very much looking forward to all that!
This is just a very brief blog to remind everybody how cool my son is. He rocks. I was home alone with him tonight and all he did was smile, laugh, bang his hands around, eat and sleep. Basically in that order, but the smiling and laughing happens right up to sleep time. I’m very lucky to have such a cool kid.
As of the last week, during bath time, Hayden has gotten a little less interested in his bath toys and has found a toy of his own!! I’m not sure he had realised there was something down there attached to him before now!! Now he is fascinated by it! Kara told me it’s important to encourage him and not tell him off as that will give him a complex when he’s older! So I’ve been smiling and laughing with him, trying to get him back interested in his rubber duckie!
Hayden has really started to jabber recently. He makes all sorts of squeaky noises, Kara is convinced that one of his squeaks made up some real French words the other day, but I’m not so sure about. I have no idea where he could have picked up a French influence, more likely some country and western phrases from his day care teachers!
Hayden and Layla's Place 