Feliz Cinco de Mayo

 

So we survived our six month check up - shots and all.  Mino has fallen off the chunkster bandwagon and now weighs 19lbs (8.6 kg) which is the 70%; is 28.5 inches(.724m)  tall which is 98% and his head is 17.7 inches (45cm) around 96%.  He is still up there and doc says that everything is looking good.  He did give us a referral to the head shape guru however he said that it is looking a bit better, but isn't resolved so just wants to cross his t's and dot his i's with the referral because if we need to do something about it, now is the time.  We didn't do a whole lot this week, we were going to go to the festival of nations today but impending storms and rain curtailed our plans.  Maybe tomorrow.

 Spring is back in the metro and we have been enjoying the great outdoors.  Mino loves to be outside to the point that I am scared for next winter when we can't use that as entertainment for a good chunk of the day.

 Martin thought it would be funny to sit Mino on my shoulders when I was talking to my mom, it was cute for a while then he attacked!!

Also Mino got to have fun during his first Tornado Watch.  We got some rain and that is it.  We quickly followed up with a viewing of Twister so Mino appreciated the danger of Tornadoes (and the coolness that is storm chasing. . )

The biggest change is that Mino is eating food now!  We got the go ahead nod from the doc at his 6 month appointment and he basically said go for it!  He said that they usually recommend starting with rice cereal but our little guy has a slow system and rice slows things more so we opted for some fibrous foods.

 

 

He's like come on guys, food now!  I think he probably has been ready for some time but we were scared to start because we didn't know how it worked exactly.

 

 

 

First food was sweet potatoes!  He loved love loved them and gobbled an entire jar in two days.  Next was peas.

 

 Those aren't going as well.  In the same amount of time he probably has gotten a 1/4 of the jar down.  So the next one will probably be pears and we will revisit the peas later.

Changing Mino has become a bit of a challenge as of late.  He twists and turns and steals diapers and tries to eat the diaper cream.  He pounds on the wipes box and wiggles out of the fresh diaper we have lined up.  And hot off the press, as I was typing this up he had his first official solo roll from back to tummy!  We have a mobile child on our hands!