Catching Up on Videos

With this new format for relaying life as a family of three, I can now show you some of the things that we've been working on lately. Dan has been on solids about once a day for about a month now. His first food he tried was sweet potatoes. The link to that first encounter is here:

Dan's First Food - Video Link

A week or so later, we ventured into new foods. As we have been working on feeding solids, Dan has been wanting to become more involved in the process. Here he is trying to feed himself. Needless to say, we don't feed like this too often as it is rather messy!

Dan Feeding Himself - Video Link

Funny story from yesterday. I was a champ and got four loads of laundry done yesterday, including our bed linens. Nothing better than climbing into freshly laundered sheets! Roughly 15-20 minutes after the last load went into the wash, Dan of course had one of his blow outs. Lovely! He went straight into the bath with that one.

Speaking of baths, he is really starting to enjoy splashing around in the water. Two weekends ago the three of us went to Madison for a football coaching seminar. Dan and I hung out in the hotel while Jason went to the various talks. The hotel had a pretty cool pool so I bought Dan some swim trunks and we both hopped in. It was rather overwhelming for him at first with all the activity. After 10 minutes or so he really started getting into it. We swam for just over a half hour before heading back to the room where we both took a 3 hour nap! I'm planning on signing Dan up for swimming lessons this summer. We have to go through the YMCA as they have classes that fit our schedule. They are twice as much as they are through the rec department, but apparently the rec department thinks that parents with young children don't work during the day. That's a bummer. I'm really looking forward to getting Dan up to the lake this summer and taking him down to the beach. Let's hope the water is warm enough to do a little swimming. Either way, I hope he has fun playing in the sand. So many new things to experience this summer! I'll leave you with this picture. It certainly looks like Dan is ready to take on anything!