An Uff in an Uff

An Uff in an Uff

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Let the races begin!


Our sweet baby Leif is growing so fast. He is eating more and more solid food, says "Dada" and "baba" and "Ma." He has two little teeth. He has so much personality and loves to laugh, dance and play games. He reminds me so much of Zan how he can sit and focus and figure something out with his little tongue sticking out.  He loves making music, playing with doggies, and crashing.




Tuesday, June 4, 2013

First tooth!

Ouch!

After months and months of crankiness and sleepless night on and off he finally has his first tooth on the bottom right. Phew...now just for the rest of them!

8 month update

Leif is going to go to a woman's home once a week while I work so we can start to have more family time on the weekends. Her name is Jessica and she is the wife of one of the Social Workers I used to work with. They have twins who are 22 months and then the daughter of one of the OB's I work with goes there as well.  I am excited for him to be able to play with the other kids, and think it will be a great environment for this busy, active little boy. I wrote up his schedule for her, as well as his likes/dislikes. Thought I would post it for the memories.


Leif's general schedule 

8:00-8:30am morning nap
8:30 Zan will drop Leif off
0900 wakes up, eats a bottle (4-5oz)
        plays, books, music etc 
11ish (or sometime in between 0900 and 1200 he eats solids) 
1200 eats a bottle (4-5oz) 
1230-1pm Ergo and falls asleep (usually takes a 2 hour nap) 
2:30-3pm wakes up, eats a bottle (4-5oz) 
3-4:30pm Plays, outside, etc...
4:30pm Janna will pick Leif up

We are really flexible, but this is his basic schedule. Feel free to give him solids when you feed the other kids lunch etc, or feed him bottles early or later if his cues are different. 

Eating:
So far he can eat squash, sweet potato, banana, apricots, black beans. He can't tolerate rice or avocado right now. He loves water in his sippy cup.

Likes to play with: instruments, shakers, etc. New and fun textures (fluffy, rough, etc), balls. He likes to examine tags on things. Books that rhyme or have things to touch in them. Crawling, pulling up on anything and everything, creeping along things while standing. He LOVES outside. Loves to crawl in the grass, look at trees, birds etc. He can usually do well with just free play and exploring when things are set out. 

Naps: We put him in the ergo 15min or so before it's time to sleep and then put the hood up and a pacifer in his mouth and he goes to sleep. I usually lay him down right when he starts to close his eyes and is drowsy and then he will get comfortable in bed, usually rolls over and goes to sleep. He sleeps well with white noise.

Comfort/cranky/teething- he loves his pacifier which I will put in his bag so you have extras. He can have acetaminophen and or ibuprofen for pain which I will put in his bag with dosages. Teething rings, Sophie the giraffe is one of his favorite things to chew on. Ergo and swaying and shushing. 


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