Mmmmmm pears!

Well our little Logan is not so little anymore! He was 5 months old on the 17th and now weighs 7.4kg.

He has also started solids and although he was not too fussed on the farex (baby rice) or apples he seems to quite like the pears. Well okay then, given today's performance I would say he LOVES the pears....this is only the second time he has had them and he has started opening his mouth for more as well as grizzling when I wiped his mouth clean instead of giving him more LOL. I think what he was trying to say was "don't worry about making a mess Mummy just put some more in there!!" Will see what happens tomorrow - he had about 5 teaspoons full today!

The Reds youngest fan!

Bliss!

Logan went to bed at 10:30 last night... and slept through to 6:30 this morning. :-D Probably won't happen again, though...

Logan's now sleeping in his 'big boy cot' in his room (as opposed to the portacot in the living room). We didn't have any problems moving him over, and it also means we can relax and watch a bit of TV (or Dada can play on his Xbox) while he's asleep.

He's growing up fast: 4 months old already! He's talkative, learned to blow raspberries, can wiggle round in circles when you put him on the mat, and in the last week, he's started try to roll onto his tummy. We've also introduced him to his Jolly Jumper, which he absolutely loves:

Trying out the sliding chair

We've had this for a while, but Logan's always been too small to reach the kickplate. Until now.

Baptism

We had Logan's baptism today, at Our Lady of Fatima church in Tawa.

In the picture to the left, you can see Logan wearing his christening gown (not a dress, regardless of what his Aunt Felicity has to say about it) that Juliette's grandmother made about 40 years ago. 17 members of Juliette's family have been christened in it -- 18 including Logan.

We had a good turnout -- a few people couldn't make it, for one reason or another -- but it was a lovely private service. Father Penders -- who married Juliette and I four years ago -- did the service. He even made an impromptu addition to the service, calling our friends' 6 year old daughter up to hold Logan's baptism candle -- not something we'd thought of, but in retrospect was a great idea.

Logan was great throughout the service, even watching Fr Penders during the sermon. He didn't scream once, even when he had the water poured on his head -- though I'm sure some of that was because Juliette and I had his pacifier ready to put in his mouth at the slightest sign of impending screamage.

(L-R: James (godfather), Sarah (godmother), Juliette (happy mum) holding Logan (sleeping baby), me (proud dad), and Felicity (godmother and aunt)

To celebrate afterwards, we went to Nan and Grampa's place for afternoon tea. The centrepiece was the top tier of our wedding cake, which has been carefully stored in our freezer for the past four years for just this occasion.

Exciting times!!

Well our little boy was 3 months old old on Wednesday 17th (4 days ago) and we just can't believe how the time has flown!!!

He is loving the singing at SPACE and is now started to make different sounds like he is talking to us, which I am sure he is :)

We had our 12 week vaccinations on Monday and he coped better than last time, still screamed but not quite as much and again settled as soon as I fed him. He was very sleepy the following day and a bit unsettled the day after but I think that was because he was trying to push out a poo - he waiting until Daddy got home to do it so he could change the nappy - what a good wee boy my son is!!



Yesterday we took him swimming and he loved it, not so keen on the shower afterwards but loved having both Mummy and Daddy in the water at his level. We did not stay in for long obviously as babies get cold quickly (the pool was nice and warm though) but I was pleased we went.



Today we have his Christening at 2pm so will try to update again tomorrow (given we have been slack of late) - I hope he will be a good boy - but as long as his tummy is full that should not be a problem. Better go and start getting ourselves organised - takes a while with a baby!!

Two months old today!

Little man is growing up fast...!