Wallace Family, Party of Four: Happy Presidents Day!

We had a good, calm weekend. A few errands, but mostly a lot of hanging out at the house. Saturday night/Sunday day was a rough time for Jayden. He woke up about four times Saturday night, and then woke up for good around 6 am or so. And then Sunday he wouldn't nap for more than 20 minutes or so and when he was awake he was in tears or on the verge of tears. Finally, in the afternoon, we gave him some tylenol and he later took a 1-1/2 hour nap and went to bed easily. We think his gums/teeth are really bothering him. I can definitely see his teeth in his gums, they just won't pop through. If I get a lucky penny, to break a wishbone, whatever, my #1 wish is going to be for Jayden's teeth to pop through - for his sake and for ours.

We're going to slowly introduce more solids into Jayden's life: he's been trying rice cereal, as you all saw. Yesterday he tried sweet potato for the first time. It maybe wasn't the best day to try it since he was so fussy, but once he tasted it, he calmed down and ate it all up. I'm loving making my own baby food. I just roasted a sweet potato for about an hour, spooned out the inside, pureed it with my handheld immersion blender (that I won in an online contest), thinned it out a little with milk and then spooned it into my baby food storage trays. The one sweet potato (maybe a pound or so) made 10 servings! Next week we'll try carrots.

Today has been a much better day for him, although he is still having trouble napping. He is too curious and social sometimes, and he's getting way too good at grabbing things. He can pick up his own toys; when Jayden drops one, Carmen always lowers him down so that he can pick it up himself. Jayden can also hold onto his pacifier himself, which is great except that he hasn't totally figured out which side goes into his mouth - oh well!
This was supposed to be naptime today: