the hicks family: Tyler's baby food experience

Tyler is doing really well with solids. He had oatmeal cereal the first three days and today we moved on to sweet potatoes! Those were a bit more messy, but Tyler ate the majority of a 2 1/2 oz jar. He would've probably eaten the whole thing, but I didn't want him to eat too much and then spit it all back later so we didn't quite finish the jar. I can only imagine how many burp cloths we will go thru now with solids - his spitting up will be much messier...

He had his 6 month appointment today. My mom came up last night to stay the night and go with us to the appointment today. After our ER experience a few weeks ago, I was more anxious about this appointment than usual. But Tyler did wonderful. He (naturally) cried during the shots, but as soon as I was able to pick him up, he calmed down. He weighed 17 lbs 12 oz (50%) and is 26 inches long (50%). Mom stayed for the afternoon and played with Tyler and hung out with us and then headed back home. Tyler hasn't run any fever yet, and I'm hoping he'll make it thru the night fever-free as well.

We took a couple of videos of the second solid food experience but unfortunatly they are also too large to post. So, we'll have to take a shorter clip to post for anyone that's interested... I need to find out if there's a way to somehow compress the files down to a smaller size so that I can post - I've got a really good one of him playing in his bed.