It's Simply Splashing

Tomorrow Daniel is 19 weeks old. Today I went to a session at the SAN on Introducing Solids. I found this very helpful as it was a lot more specific and clear in what to do and give and when, in comparison to the session at the Community Centre which was a lot more 'What is your experience?' Not so helpful when I have no experience. So I am feeling more confident about starting solids. I was thinking that I will start trying to give him some at 5 months, that way he has a bit of time to get used to food going into his mouth and then by 6 months he will hopefully be eating some of it too :-) We will see how he goes. It will be hard to not want it to be a 'clean' experience but today they said that we need to let them explore the food and enjoy eating, and using their hands to explore it will potentially help the bub to be less fussy as they grow up. Maybe true, maybe not, but I like the concept behind it.

We are still working on rolling over. Daniel keeps getting to his side but then that is it. His reach is increasing through this technique. I am so happy with how he is playing. He does really well with entertaining himself for the first 30mins of play while I eat breakfast/do the washing, etc and then he enjoys playing with me until he gets tired.

18 weeks old

His smile just melts my heart! I get to see it so much which is just lovely. I also get more giggles too. Today his dinosaur roaring at him was funny as!

 (Sorry for the video being side on - I couldn't rotate it)

James has loved giving Daniel baths lately. I hear lots of laughter from James during the bath time, followed closely by 'And there we go' when Daniel decides to wee in the bath. The reason for the laughter though is because Daniel LOVES his bath time and he now splashes all over the place. It is so nice to see how they enjoy it together.

Mid splash

Also I am so proud of Daniel and how he is going sleeping, mainly in relation to settling. Tonight was his 7th time in a row of going down without a sound/without James or I needing to go in. I am feeling a lot more confident in knowing when to put him down and when to keep him up. I know it is probably momentary but I will be excited while it lasts :-)