Connor's progress on solid foods

Connor enjoying meal time (Feb.7, 2009)

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Connor has been doing quite well with his solids. He usually has a good appetite for it. I feed him three times a day (morning, lunch, dinner) and yes he is still nursing the same as before. The solids are not meant to replace breast milk at this point; baby is supposed to be learning how to eat solids and getting used to the textures. Connor definitely prefers the sweet foods for now (breast milk is sweet, too). It's funny watching his expressions as he tries different foods.

If you are eating as you read this, you better read the rest of this post later. That's because I wanted to mention now about the new poopy that we have to deal with! Boy is it ever a sticky, yucky mess. (I WARNED YA!). Not only is it sticky like peanut butter, but super stinky. This new poopy is giving me quite a challenge with the cloth diapering - so far, I only had to wash it off the cloth diaper once (and Po Po helped me with that in the end!). I've read that you should "spray it into the toilet" (you can actually purchase a sprayer that attaches to a toilet). I tried spraying it into the laundry sink and it didn't work out well at all. Ick. Afterwards I remembered I had purchased a disposable liner for the cloth diapers, so I have been doing that. It worked well the one other time Connor actually pooped into the cloth diaper. Every other time so far I have been lucky he happened to be wearing a disposable.

Connor seemed to be having some constipation, but he's gone #2 once yesterday as well as today so his body must be getting used to processing it now.

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Jolly Jumping, How High?

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My new favourite toy is my Jolly Jumper. This Jolly Jumper Mom had picked up for a real steal for $5 from a Craigslister. We have the style that has a clamp to hook on to a door frame.


I love to jump high and fast! Oh, the freedom, the freedom!

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Flashback: Toronto to Vancouver Road Trip

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I had almost forgotten about this old blog I started when Linds, Oscar and I drove from Toronto to Vancouver for our move out here in August 2006 (how time flies!).

Looking back at it now sure brings back great memories of the trip - I only wish I had blogged more on it as it appears I did not finish up the tail end of the blog. I can't even recall what name I signed up with on that blog, so I cannot go edit it or anything.

Anyways here is where the blog is, so that I don't forget what the blog was named!

http://torontotovancouver.blogspot.com

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The Connor Boogie Woogie

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Do you think I can make it on "So You Think You Can Dance Canada"?

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Connor eating rice porridge and giggling at UM...

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Connor has been eating "solids" - if you can call mush a solid - for about two weeks now. We started with a sample packet of Heinz rice cereal which we received free from Heinz. We also had a Nestle sample, which seemed sweeter than the Heinz, so I have since purchased a box of Heinz Organic Wheat cereal. This is non-sweetened so it was even better. Connor has also eaten brown rice porridge which I pureed the heck out of, and froze them "plop" method - spooned the porridge onto wax paper and froze them (read this in a book). Connor isn't a big fan of that one, as it's quite bland, so I mix it with apple sauce and he's OK with that. Connor has also tried pureed carrots and avocado - he wasn't that happy with those either.

Here's a video of Connor having some white rice porridge yesterday. He didn't seem to mind it that much. The porridge consistency was thicker but there were still chunks of rice in it, which he wasn't used to.

I decided to try posting the videos to YouTube now, and embed the video into the blog. The quality seems much better.

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