Hard to fathom how fast time has flown...and yet it feels as though he's always been in our lives. We celebrated his sweet little birthday by hitting up the pediatrician for his well baby check up! He's grown 3 pounds and almost 2 whole inches since his last visit, and he is still off the charts for height! It's so funny to hear the doctor when she first sees him...she's always like, whoa...
So he's the size of a large 7-month old or a small 11-month old. She even asked us if we had any really tall people in our families, and we were both like NO! It's crazy...but she did say that by 9 months he should settle into his genetic height category, so we'll know more then. Poor baby had to get a couple of shots today, which was not a cool birthday present, but it's what he has to do.
We also celebrated by giving him his first taste of REAL food. Like I mentioned before, he has eaten the commercial Gerber Organic Brown Rice cereal and also homemade oatmeal, but no real food up until now. I know it's early to start him on solids, but I think he'll be ok. He seems so interested in what I'm eating, I feel like I'm depriving him! I was eating a turkey sandwich the other day and he kept staring at it and licking his lips! It was quite adorable, but so sad! I just wanted to tear off a little bit and give it to him!
So he seemed to really like his potatoes, but he REALLY liked it when I mixed it with a bit of rice. We are going to make sure we keep giving him his grains since America is sadly behind the curve on whole grains, and they provide the iron he needs, so I mixed them together. Going to hit up the Farmer's Market on Thursday and hope to pick up some avocados for next week! I also want to check out some of their other stuff in hopes of making some of his food ahead of time and freezing it.
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