5 months old!

Well, time is flying and Simon turned 5 months old  on the 19th.  He's such a BIG boy. The last time we weighed him was last week and he was 15lbs 12oz. I strongly suspect he is 16lbs now.  Simon is in his six month clothes now so I have very sadly put away the tiny things.  But, on the plus side, big baby means fun baby!! Simon loves rolling around but still is not keen when he ends up on his tummy. There is usually a lot of whining. He also likes to stand up and push off things with his big leggies. Unfortunately, he tested that trick while I was not paying attention, I lost my grip and he smacked his little head on a table. Poor baby! No lasting damage though :-)

 

 

Simon continues to LOVE his food. He is now eating solid food twice a day.  His favorites so far are pears, pears mixed with spinach, prunes and squash. He also likes banana. He likes it best when it is chunky so we mix his fruit and veggies up with rice or oatmeal.  Simon also tried soy yogurt yesterday and (huge surprise here), loved it. Good boy!  Here he is being thoughtful after a nice bowl of something tasty.  

 

 Simon has also started laughing which is really cute.  He was actually giggling at his sister which is not a huge surprise. Speaking of his sister, we had a sleepover last weekend with Tori.  The girls were very excited when Auggie said they could make pancakes in the morning. They looked pretty tasty. Even though Evie has two beds in her room, and even though the girls were put to bed in separate beds, they ended up in the same bed and were very good girlies.

 And here are some more photos of my lovely girl.  Evie pies only has a couple of weeks left at Chevron school and then it is off to big girl school.  She's still not particularly keen on the uniform but while reading "Princess Evie's Ponies" this evening, we noticed that the girls in the adventure were wearing school uniform (thank goodness for British books!!). The idea of a uniform seems slightly less repugnant to her now.  So thank you Auntie Jill for the lovely book!

Back to Simon....here are a few photos. This is a selfie from the other day. He has been generally less suspicious of the black thing in my hand recently so I've caught some decent smiles. 

 And some of the best from his 5 month photo shoot. I had help this time!! Simon's Ma was on hand to make him smile while I took the photos. We keep hitting a bit of a snag because the chair in his room (which is where I take these) is leather so his little bottom keeps sliding down. Still cute though!

 This is my favourite!

Simon was rolling around in his bedroom and found little puppy.  This was taken after he had rolled over onto his tummy, had a little grumble, and rolled back again.

 Silliness in a cute outfit. I have told Simon that tongue will get chopped off one day.

 "Tummy time" - or in Simon's case, have a bit of a thumb suck and hope someone moves me. He did eventually perk up and start playing with the toy to his right but to be honest, I didn't feel that his heart was in it.

 But...what he DID enjoy was a turn in the exersaucer! It is actually out for Isla to use but Simon thought it was great fun. Evie has tried to get in it a few times too. Here they are playing together. Cuteness overload.

 

 I think that about covers it. Basically Simon likes to eat and be cuddled. I wish my Nana could have met him. As you all know, we lost our Nanina last week. She was the most gentle and kind soul you could ever have the pleasure to meet. She loved all of us and would have enjoyed Simon's red hair and cheeky grin.  I only hope we can all live up to her example.

 

 

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Evie's school had cooking week where they worked with the in house chef to learn how to look some dishes.  Here she is making a fruit wrap and was very pleased with herself!

 Close up shot of her gold medal.  I should say as an aside that the competition was at the worst ice rink we have ever been to. Add to that, they put Evie's class right at the end of the session (LATE) and they were running late so it was REALLY late by the time she competed. And between practice and performance we went to the most horrid mall EVER as it was the only thing close by - an experience saved only by the fact the mall has a wine and beer license. Thank goodness.

 Baby girl ready to go!

 Cute Daddy and Simon shot.

ok, that's all for now. I will keep trying to upload the video of Evie Skating but I'm not holding out much hope!

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Relating to my previous post, here are the photos!  I should say a word here about Evie's amazing performance at the Space City Open ice skating competition last weekend. She went out there and she meant business!! She was amazing and really deserved the win!! She says she plans to win the Olympics skating with Simon.....

 

Here are the two crazies on Simon's mat

And another two crazies at the skate competition

 

 

 

 

Simon demonstrating his usual lack of enthusiasm for tummy time

Pure cuteness

More to come in the next post.....

4 months old!

Well some how our little boy has passed the 4 month mark. He has had some milestones too including..... rolling over!! back to front and back again.  The day was June 9th.  I have to say that since then Simon has not made a huge effort to repeat the feat.  He's rolled a few times for Daddy but generally, he remains a bit lazy. Still, it is nice to know that he can do it.

Simon was really brave at his 4 month appointment where he had three injections and the roto virus oral vaccine.  He quite fancied some more of the roto virus and was really good with the needles. In fact, he was much better about it than Evie was who had to have two injections on the same day. She screamed the place down and Nana had to pin down Evie's arms!!  Dr. Herman was very pleased with Simon's development. He weighed in at 14lbs 14 oz and was 24.5 inches long. This means he is the same height as Evie was at this age but more than a pound heavier! That could well be due to all the rice and veggies Simon has been eating. We decided to try him on rice as he seemed a little hungry. He LOVED it. So after a few days we tried squash and he loved that too. Next I tried apple which he did not like one little bit. After that I tried peas and he liked that (like mother, like son).  So overall we have had a good experience with the food! Little chubbles really does like his food but unfortunately is still quite the puker.

School is going really well for Simon. He loves the ladies who look after his class. This is largely because he is the only boy in the room and he is spoiled. When we leave in the afternoon all the ladies come by to say goodbye to Simon and he laps up the attention.  Mostly I am able to go over there and feed him 3 times a day so he's not suffering too badly.

Other than rolling over, Simon is still chatting a lot, cooing a lot and smiling all the time. He has still not laughed out loud.  He can sit really well with a bit of support and likes to lift his head and shoulders while lying on his back. Simon still hates tummy time though. He still acts like we are inflicting some kind of torture if we dare to put him on his tummy.  I assume this will change one day!!

I will attach the most recent photos to a separate post as I am having difficulty with technical stuff!!