Well, Austin has made some strides this past week, and most of them, are not the best. He has recently decided that since we got back from Georgia, that he no longer wanted to eat food. It's almost like he's decided that he wanted to eat baby food all over again. We've struggled for the past few days, with him not eating, and when he does, he doesn't eat much. It appears to be his teeth, once again. It looks like number 8 is finally getting ready to poke through, and it looks like he's also working on his molars right now. In particular, he hasn't been eating meat. He used to love eating hamburger, and small pieces of chicken. He is currently spitting them out once you put them in his mouth. The other day, I couldn't even get him to eat watermelon! And for those of you who know him, that's unheard of. The only luck i've had lately is applesauce, waffles, Cheerios, and cheese. Hopefully this phase will pass soon, because it is so frustrating! He's been eating table foods for about a month now, so to go back to baby food and spitting out food, is quite a shock. He's starting to get back to the table food slowly, and thankfully it's only lasted a few days. Hopefully these teeth will cut through soon, because not only are the disrupting his eating habits, they are also messing with his drinking and sleeping habits.
He has recently started to push a cup away from his mouth when you put it to his lips. So, I broke down, and gave him a sippy cup. He's learning how to use it, but we are still working to get him on a normal cup also. In some weird form of my imagination, I feel that a sippy cup is better than a bottle, and I want to have him off of his bottle at 12 months. And if that means that we use a sippy for a brief period of time, so be it. He'll get the hang of the cup again soon. I was just about ready to give the bottle up, but didn't want to when we went down to Georgia....maybe I should have!
While we were in Georgia, Austin did great sleeping. He took great naps, and even slept all the way through the night all the nights we were there, which we weren't anticipating happening. Since then, he's begun to wake up again during the middle of the night, and he has been waking up earlier in the morning. He has also recently decided that he didn't really want to take a morning nap either, which means he falls asleep in his high chair during lunch. Today is the first day since Wednesday last week I have been able to get him to go to sleep for his much needed morning nap.....wish me luck, we hope this pattern continues and he starts to get back to his old routine!
On a brighter note, he finally started to say mama. He says "mmm ma-ma". It's really cute. He still doesn't know what it means, and isn't saying it directly to me, but he is saying it a lot. He has even started to say "duck", which just about everything is right now. I thought about making him a duck for Halloween even :) How cute would that be!
Austin recently discovered the toilet paper. I've tried to keep it away from him for quite some time, but he got into it without my knowing on Sunday. Of course, I let him play with it so we could take a quick picture, and them told him no. I hope at some point he figures out my twisted method of discipline :) He's just so ornery and cute....I couldn't resist letting him play with it for a bit!
This is Austin on Saturday eating dinner. We tried to give him Bologna, because like I said, he hasn't been eating meat. I don't really consider Bologna a meat, which is fine, because he hated it. I had to mask it with pears. He was excited about the ND Michigan game, and was trying to get ND to score a Touchdown. We've been teaching him to lift up his arms for Touchdown and "So Big!" He's finally getting the hang of it! Too bad the wrong team won that day :(
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