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Conrad seems pretty happy with the concept of solid food. Today is his second day trying the rice cereal. Hard to imagine anybody being so excited about rice cereal until you realize that up to now he’s had nothing but milk and bathwater sucked out of a washcloth.
One thing has been constant throughout Conrad’s life: he doesn’t like to nap, except in the car seat. Put him in the car or the stroller and he’ll be asleep within a few minutes.
Except today. We went for an hour-long walk this morning and for the whole time he just looked at me with a slightly uncomfortable look on his face. He yawned a couple of times, but that was it.
Once again I realize we know nothing.
I just uploaded two weeks of photos to the Flickr page and realized how long it’s been since I posted here. Ah, well. I guess this is the perfect place to use “having a new baby” as an excuse for not writing very often.
Lots of new stuff going on. For one, he’s started moving all over the crib at night. This started last week, and I believe I mentioned it in a previous post. It’s still a bit odd. For five months, we would put Conrad down in his crib and the next morning, there he would be, exactly where we put him. Now, it’s anybody’s guess. He moves around the crib like little Billy in a Family Circus cartoon.
I shouldn’t even mention this, what with the high percentage of grandparents reading this blog, but we started him on solid food today and the battery in the camera was dead. So that milestone went unrecorded. I suppose I could just have taken pictures of the same event tomorrow and passed them off, but lying in my baby’s blog seems especially heinous.
So, I’ll shoot some more pictures of it tomorrow. If you can’t wait, take a look at the picture above and imagine it smeared with tan gruel from eyebrow to chin.
Roy is a very sweet cat, but not the sharpest claw in the paw. We have observed him, for instance, meowing at a blank wall. There is a door hinge in our house that makes him angry. He is afraid of our family room rug. We say “Oh, Roy” a lot around here.
Last night I heard him meowing plaintively over the baby monitor. We have inadvertently closed a cat in Conrad’s room on occasion and I assumed that’s what had happened. I got up and hurried down the hall to let Roy out before he woke Conrad, but the door was open and Roy came sauntering out of his own accord.
I’m assuming that, unable to rouse us at 5:00 a.m., Roy had gone in to see if Conrad would feed him.
For five months I’ve been watching Conrad sleep on his back, aware that if he were somehow able to roll over onto his stomach, that would be bad. Now that he can move around much more easily, it’s okay for him to sleep on his side and his stomach. Right now, for the second night, he’s asleep on his side. No matter how many times I’ve been told it’s okay, it is still freaking me the hell out.
Lots of new photos on the Flickr page, including photos from our trip to LA, not that you would know it from looking at them. We really need to get better at taking the camera outside.