All Great People Start Small

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Day 198

My little munchkin. Having tummy time to practice crawling.

Great onesie I got at Old Navy recently. “All Great People Start Small”. Gotta love Woodstock 🙂

Hm, I’m not sure if I like this…

Simon is learning to use us as a way to stand up. He will creep over to us and try to push himself up into a standing position. Good way for him to practice.

He is also learning how to take steps to propel him forward while in his Exersaucer. Here he is running around, well almost fully around in a circle. He gets distracted easily so paused at our bedpost.

I don’t know what he’s thinking in this photo but I love his surprised expression.

I did a bit of baking for today. My mom bought me this cupcake pan that makes a big cupcake. It’s actually two pieces that you bake separately then assemble it. It also has an insert so that you can fill the cake with something like ice cream, pudding, etc. The top part of the cake is vanilla (from a box mix) and the bottom is a mocha cake (which I wouldn’t use the same recipe again since it didn’t turn out very well). With the extra batter I made mini cupcakes. The occasion this time was for my co-workers birthdays which are on the same day next week but both will be on vacation so I baked for them today.

Future Caffeine Addict

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Day 197

Simon was snoring quite loudly early this morning.

Simon may be a future Starbucks addict. Maybe he didn’t feel rested since he was snoring last night…

Actually he is teething and discovered the rim of the cup is a good thing to chew on. Looks like he’s a bit of a caffeine fiend though, doesn’t it?

Today at work, we had a special treat of Kara’s Cupcakes. My favorite is the passion fruit filled cupcake. A nice afternoon snack thanks to Rich!

Simon’s head is getting so big that it’s getting harder to pull things over his head. This is a towel-like bib and as Ron was trying to take it off, it got a bit stuck.

At Simon’s last pediatrician visit, she gave us a book. She said we should read to him everyday and let him play with the book, even if it’s just that he wants to chew on it… well, so far he does mostly want to chew on it but also enjoys trying to flip the pages. This book is called Baby Faces.

For dinner, we met up with relatives from Ron’s side of the family and had dinner at Cafe Tiramisu. Simon ended up sleeping through the whole dinner.

We had a lovely wine.

Food was average. Dessert was better. We shared the bruschetta appetizer. It usually only comes with 4 pieces but since there were 5 of us, they gave us an extra piece.

I had the orchiette which was a bit oily for my taste but there was plenty of sausage and definitely filled me up.

Ron had the ravioli which was crab meat I think. Seemed like a small portion but I guess it lets you save room for dessert.

For dessert, we tried three. Of course their tiramisu.

Creme brulee which I thought was supposed to be espresso but didn’t taste any coffee flavor at all.

Lemon panna cotta with passion fruit sauce. Didn’t taste like lemon at all but the passion fruit sauce was nice and super tangy. The panna cotta itself was more gelatinous versus creamy.

Since Simon slept through dinner, he stayed up late.

He’s saying: Mommy, Daddy, I’m not ready to go to sleep yet! Let’s play!

Laughter

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Day 196

Simon will toss and turn sometimes when he is trying to fall asleep so we have to watch him closely or else keep the stuffed animals and blankets away. In this case, he ended up covering himself up with his puppy playmat.

But he is fine underneath and breathing fine. Only thing is that he might wake up because he is too warm.

Ron filmed Simon’s new trick today. He has a dolphin on his exersaucer that can spin and makes noise with beads in it. Simon has learned how to make it spin around and around with his hand… plus he is trying to put it into his mouth.

For some reason Simon was in a really good mood this evening. He was laughing for no reason… or else he thought I was really funny looking. Check out his funny looking hair, it sort of looks like he has a comb-over. He has rubbed off his hair on the back of his head from tossing and turning so the hair is mostly growing on his sides and on top so he has dark patches in those areas and the hair is about 1-2 inches long. Ron would like to shave Simon’s hair off but I don’t think it would be very nice looking and winter is coming up so he’d be cold.

My funny baby.

Taste of a Fresh Peach

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Day 195

Good morning!

Ron and Simon dropped by my work again today and we had lunch in the cafeteria. I had a peach for dessert and Simon seemed interested in it so I let him have a taste.

He proceeded to try to gnaw on it and slobber all over it and seemed to enjoy it.

Simon has started making funny sounds again, playing with his saliva and lips. Basically making raspberries which we think he picked up from Ron making funny sounds at him.

Daddy Ron does other funny things with Simon. Here he lets Simon smell his own feet and also lets him kick himself! It’s always amazing to me that Simon is so bendy.

We have been giving Simon bubble baths lately. He has a few floating toys that he splashes around with and plays until he is out of breath. He is getting used to having the water rain over his head with the shower head. He does some sputtering with his lips and blinking of his eyes and then gets frustrated and almost ready to cry but once we move the water away, he’s fine. When he learns how to hold his breath and close his eyes then I’m sure he’ll be fine with showers.

Here he is being dried off after bath time and getting ready for bed.

Sleepy Sunday

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Day 194

We all had a very sleepy Sunday today. Ron slept in the morning, I slept in the afternoon and Simon took many little naps. Maybe too much fun in the sun yesterday.

Simon has a new toy that we got on Craigslist. It’s a convertible car to walker. He can either sit on it…

Or use it to support himself to stand. He can’t stand by himself yet so Ron still has to hold him so he won’t bonk his head against the toy.

Simon Smiles!