The Typical Day plus more

It's about time for a blog update. Life has been super busy with grandparents (all sets) visiting, seeing old friends, driving all over the SLC area in the process! Jason is officially 6 months old today!! We can't believe we've made it this long! WE think he's advanced for his age. Yes, we're proud parents, haha.

• blow bubbles....but not only that he can blow raspberries, spit and gurgle....just not on cue yet!
• he loves to squeal and make other sorts of sounds....sometimes he sounds like a kitty or a puppy, other times he's just LOUD!
• he will totally turn clear around if he hears anything.
• he will munch on anything. no, he is not teething. he's been doing that since he was 2 months old.
• he drools a LOT. no, he is not teething, see above!
• since about 5 months, he can crawl. not the full crawl with his tummy off the ground, but he uses his knees and toes to help propel himself with with arms. He's made it to the linen closet and the pantry. and he is fast!
• he can put his toes in his mouth.
• he likes toes and shoes....of other people!
• he likes certain baby einstein vidoes. beethoven, macdonald, and the first part of galileo are his favorites.
• he does not like the swing anymore, and if he's in the swing he tries to grab the legs to suck on them!
• he likes the tab that adjusts my desk chair to lean back. i don't like to lean back so I always have it locked. yesterday i sat down and figured out HE learned how to unlock it.
• you name it, he's into it on our living room. we've had to line the electronics area with boxes (filled with books) so he doesn't get into the cords....or press buttons!
• if he give him a toy in the stroller or carseat, he'd rather chew on the strap.
• at church he likes to stand in our laps or on the bench to see.....everything and make faces at people.
• he is pretty good with strangers or people at church. most of the time he's happy around them.
• he does not like to sleep. it's a battle at every nap/bedtime.
• likes to fake cough sometimes. it's really funny when he does this. he's been a very good cougher since 2 days old, so now he fake coughs!
• if figuring out about shadows and his fingers can do more than just hold things. we'll see him moving his fingers around casting shadows on the floor. it's really cute.
• he loves to suck on the tops of water bottles. i think he's trying to get the water out!
• if he's put in a sitting position, he'll stay there for a atleast a few seconds now.
• he likes to scream at himself in the mirror. we have this little play mirror from Grandma Barbara with attached bugs that move around he likes to scream at. he's doing it right now infact. well ok, now he's trying to munch on it.
• he loves it when Daddy blows on his tummy or makes kissy faces at him. I've tried to make kissy faces at him, but I get this, oh mom stop trying look, instead.
• when on his tummy, he likes to lean on one side to play with toys sometimes. or while he's leaning, he'll reach back to scratch his leg. there's no itch there....because he does it everytime when he's laughing at us!
• oh and one thing i really do not like is he pulls on his shirts when he's wearing them. bibs too. so most of the time he has a bib on so he doesn't stretch out his clothes.
• in general, he's a very happy baby!

So here is a typical day for us: (all times are approx, of course.)

6:30am: Wake up! Either he plays in his crib for 30 minutes and goes back to sleep OR he is UP for good.

7:30am (or whenever he wakes up again if it's later) First bottle and half a banana. He is a very good eater. Knows when he's full. Just recently he's discovered he doesn't have to eat if he doesn't like it.... like pears and applesauce.

Play around for a couple of hours, then has a bottle nap. Depending on how long his nap is (I WISH for a couple of hours, but that never happens!) he'll either play or get a bottle.

About noonish, he'll get his lunch, normally cereal and veggies/fruit, then a bottle. More playing and then a nap....maybe. Sometimes he naps in the mid-afternoon.

We take walks in the afternoons. He loves that. Sometimes we'll go to the mall and walk around.

Anywhere between 6:30pm and 7pm we start bedtime routine. We found that even if he goes to bed later, he still wakes up about 6:30am, so it's better he gets more sleep....plus, it makes for quiet evenings! Bath with bubbles and dinner. Yes, we feed him in the bath tub. We don't have a highchair and it really makes for easy cleanup for dinner time (breakfast and lunch we just hold him to feed him). Then jammies, book and bottle. Normally, we rock him to sleep, however last night was a lot different. He had too much of his bottle so he tummy was bothering him. After his tummy ordeal and cleaning him up, Danial rocked him to pretend sleep....meaning we thought he was really asleep but when Danial put him in the crib he was wide awake and happy....ready to play! So we just left him there to see what would happen. On a typical night, he would stay asleep a couple hours, rock him back to sleep for a couple more hours, then bottle, sleep a couple more hours, then rock back to sleep. Somewhere in there, he may way to be awake and play, so we leave him in the crib and he gets himself back to sleep. We were very happy and surprised that last night he got himself to sleep after about 3o minutes (about 8:45pm...I think....)and he didn't wake until about 5am! So tonight, after book and bottle we'll get him in a happy mood then put him down. Wish us luck!

Right now, he's trying to shove the whole set of plastic keys in his mouth, but he's getting frustrated because he can't! More later this week.....