Many things.....

This week has been pretty eventful for Brody! Some good and some bad! Let's start with Saturday.

On Saturday, he had his first experience with baby food. I have started to feed him only a little bit at lunch with a bottle just to make sure we don't have any issues with the food. I figured I would start off with the green veggies so we can go ahead and get that out of the way before we move on to sweeter stuff! My baby was like a little birdie....he loved them! He kept opening his mouth like a little bird and seemed to really enjoy them. We have done peas for 4 days now and today he will get green beans! UGH! Thank goodness my parents will be giving him that. I hate green beans. Once we get over these green veggies, we are going to move to sweet potatoes and then some fruit. The cereal I give him has bananas in it so I know he likes that! Here are a few pictures of him eating his peas for the first time:

Then on Sunday, Brody had a pretty traumatic day. His lifeline, the swing, was officially taken down! We took it apart and put it away. We knew this day would come and that we would have to start putting him the crib for his naps. Well...Sunday afternoon, he cried on and off for 2 hours! My little stubborn boy would not give up. I checked on him periodically, just to let him know that everything was okay, but he wasn't giving up. He did fall asleep 2 times for a period of about 20 minutes each, but that was it! Then on Monday, my parents put him in the crib in the morning after his breakfast and he slept for 2 and 1/2 hours! WHAT? I couldn't believe it! Then, yesterday he took both his morning and afternoon nap in the crib too! He did cry yesterday afternoon for about an hour, but he eventually fell asleep and my dad said when he checked on him, he was actually sleeping on his belly! He has never done that before. He normally hates to be on his belly, but I guess he was tired and just gave up. I hate the fact that we have to let him cry it out, but at this point, I am not sure what else to do. He has to get used to the crib now that the swing is gone. My parents are reinforcing that fact that the crib is Brody's friend. He absolutely has no issues with it at night, but for some reason, hated being in there during the day. I take these last couple of days as progress and hopefully this will continue!

Another thing I have noticed....he has a little brown patch in his right eye. I am not sure if this means that his eyes will be changing to brown or not, but it sure looks like that will occur. His eye color has definitely darkened and it is more of a dark gray color right now than blue. I am curious to see what will transpire from this. I would love for him to have big brown eyes, just like his daddy!

I posted the two videos below from yesterday. He has decided that he wants to stand more than anything now and he was grabbing on to Ted's hands and was pulling himself up. He is doing so great with everything, I can't even believe it! After he stands, I started making some noises and he was trying to imiate me. He started giggling too.

And this video is funny. We have noticed that every time we feed him, each time he takes a bite, it sounds like he says "mmmmm!" I got the video camera out last night when we were feeding him his cereal and you can definitely hear it. He does this with all his food, not just the cereal! It cracks us up!

I hope everyone has a had a great week so far! It is halfway over! YAY!