The week started with a baby shower that several of us hosted for good friend, Heather Cochran. We held the shower at my house with Lisa D being responsible for the food and Amy Z being responsible for decorations & ideas. I got to give our house a thorough cleaning and then help Lisa & Amy with various small tasks as needed. The fact that we were having lots of company over also meant that Kent had to quickly finish some home repairs in our guest bathrooms!! It seems like it has been a very long time since I've helped to host a shower, so I was very happy that Heather's shower went well!
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| Group shot at Heather's shower |
We ended the month of May with a much needed Memorial Day long weekend at the beach with our friends the Zbaraschuks and the Deiningers. We teamed up and rented a condo at Hammock Beach in Palm Coast, Florida. We had no objectives other than to rest, relax and make it to either the beach or the pool once per day! Erik has just been a trooper with all the traveling and location changes that we've thrown at him this year! He slept great and had a wonderful time with the big boys in the condo to play with him. Erik proved that our initial visit to the beach in April wasn't a fluke and he loved the water and the waves again on this trip. It was VERY windy due to a storm approaching, so we didn't put him in the ocean very much, but he certainly enjoyed the time we gave him. We have also learned that Erik will keep his sunhat and his sunglasses on (for the most part); it is very cute, if I do say so myself. It was actually very surprising how much attention Erik gets when he wears his hat & glasses. People were coming across the large hotel pool to say "Hi" to the "cute baby" - and it wasn't just women, but men would come over & comment as well! I think that Erik is an awfully cute baby, but I'm always surprised by how many people will stop & chat with him!!
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| Johnsons, Zbaraschuks & Deiningers |
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| Kent & Erik |
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| Kelli & Erik |
Erik's latest accomplishments include clapping his hands, crawling and finally eating! I've not blogged about the struggles that we've had with him over the last few months. We started Erik on solid foods at 6 months (the first part of February) and after a week or so of eating well and expanding his menu, he started to refuse everything - he would throw up anything we tried to feed him. I finally just quit trying to give him solids and would only try once a week or so. Towards the end of April, he started to accept more solid foods and has become a pretty good eater. Our pediatrician said that it is fairly common for some babies to reject food until they are 9 months old as Erik did. He will now eat nearly everything we give him - though he won't take some foods every time we offer it - he won't always eat avocado or squash.
Another recent accomplishment is that he now says "Uh-Oh". On the way home from Hammock Beach, I sat in the back with Erik to entertain him and every time he would drop a toy, I would say "Uh-Oh". After a few times of that, he actually started to say it with me!! I was sooo excited. He actually will say it rather consistently. I just hope that he doesn't start to drop stuff just so he can say it!
Kent's comments: Erik enjoyed the sand and ocean...it was hard for him to do much in the water, but I took him and held his feet in the shallow water where the waves came in. He liked to look at the water coming in and out very quickly. The next day I sat with him in this area of the beach and let the waves come in on us. We both got a lot of sand in our shorts, but we had fun watching the water race in and out over the broken sea shells. Erik wore his sunglasses often at the beach which made him look like a pretty cool dude!
Erik is perfecting his kissing sounds that he makes with his lips...he just came home from daycare doing it one day and now can do it on command most times.
On Friday after work Erik rode on the lawn tractor with Daddy. Erik wore his ear protectors albeit under protest. As we went by different trees and bushes I slowed down for him to touch the different leaves (at least on the first couple rounds). Erik started touching his ear protectors less and less and finally I thought to myself...he is being so good! Then I noticed his head listing to one side. A quick check of the eyelids revealed that Mr. Erik had decided that this would be a great time for a nap. The hum of the mower inside the ear protectors was apparently too much like the hum of the car tires, which signaled the heavy eye-lids to close. He stayed asleep for the last half of the yard (about 15 min) and also on the trip in the house where we put him down to finish his nap. I used to sleep in the tractor with my Dad and bonk my head on the side of the window in the tractor cab when we hit bumps. Guess it runs in the family!
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