No Sir I don't like it!

As you can see from the above picture, he has found his tongue. In fact he does that all day now and thinks it's the funniest thing especially when you do it back.....silly baby.

The feeding thing has been interesting..more so for us than him. Emmett has some pretty strong opinions about he doesn't like. More over he's lost interest in eating rice cereal on the second go and will only eat it if it's on my finger. I suppose I can't really fault him for it ..it doesn't smell very good but I can't try any other cereal on him until tomorrow. You're supposed to give them 5-7 days on a cereal one kind at a time and 4-5 days with everything else once that cereal is good and he hasn't reacted to it. I guess this way it's easier to figure out what may cause an allergy and what may not this way.

We have a little Fresh food feeder (see below) where you can put just about any food into and they can chew at it through the mesh bag without the risk of choking. So he didn't care for apple sauce or squash we tried over the past week this time around. He made a face and then promptly pushed it out of his mouth with his tongue. But then I put some cut apple in that mesh bag and he loved it.

Today was also the day he got his last set of shots for the next 6 months. It went pretty good, he only cried for a min and then he was back to charming the nurses. But now as I'm writing this he's pretty cranky and clingy. The same thing happened last shots so I will give him a warm bath and some Tylenol and hopefully we'll be back to normal in a couple days.

I also had to have the nurse check out his bum because we are still battling the never ending diaper rash. We've blow dried between changes, creamed, not creamed, oatmeal bathed, air dried and still it keeps coming back. The health nurse says it's a yeast rash so we went out and got special cream and I'm crossing my fingers that it'll finally go away. He weighed in at 17 lbs 13 oz last Thursday and today at the nurses station it was 18. lbs 1 oz already! His length is 26 inches and so that puts him at the 75th percentile for weight in his age group and 25-50th percentile for length...whatever all that means. The nurses say he is a perfect size and very healthy bum rash or not.

Still no sign of teeth, who knows when those will show up..I'm in no hurry. He went from sitting up to sitting and moving down to a tummy position and he falls over less often. I have a feeling that the motor skills are going to come very fast now. He's a busy boy and it's always a challenge to keep him entertained with new and interesting things as he gets better at moving and grabbing. I am keeping my eyes peeled for toys that are basic learning ones that don't require batteries. We picked him up some stacking cups that stack up into a tower plus they clip together like balls and one where you push different shapes through holes. I think we all had one of those.

My first birthday that I got to share with Emmett was really nice. He got me a card (thanks daddy) and we walked out on the beach with some friends and then went to the coffee shop for a slice of b-day cake. Poor Tyler was sick but was such a good sport anyways. : )