Another Weekend of Firsts!

Once again, Jamey had quite a weekend!  Although we didn't do a whole lot of Saturday besides take a gander over to Target, we went there to buy a very important item for Jamey.... his first box of rice cereal.  That evening, we went about giving him his first bit of solid food.  It was somewhat successful, but Jamey in the end was too hungry and opted just to wait it out and nurse when we were done trying to get him to open his mouth.  

However, we showed Jamey once again that we were more persistent than he, and kept trying.  Lo and behold, yesterday, Glenn tried it at a time when Jamey wasn't quite set for a feeding yet, so hopefully wasn't overly hungry.  And boy, did it work a whole lot better.  Suddenly Jamey viewed the spoon not so much as a thing he didn't want near him; rather he saw it as just another thing that he could grab and stick in his mouth.  So he put his hands out, grabbed onto Glenn's and brought the spoon to him.  However, his face revealed that he hadn't quite predicted that the spoon would leave anything behind after we took it back out.  After the first few times, though, he got used to it, and this is how far we came by tonight...

As for the other firsts, they happened on Sunday.  Around 11, we met up with Monica, Chris,

 and Christopher and headed out to the Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum that is out our way.  Monica had to go to do some "research" for a paper for one of her classes, and invited us to come along for fun.  Because for this museum, the charge is by car, we all piled into the Davids' van, and went in.  In order to conserve space, which was already a little lo, as we all packed in, Glenn and I decided to see if Jamey was ready to test out his sitting skills in the "Big Boy

 Stroller" we have.  (In case you didn't know, Jamey can now hold up his weight pretty well.)  Although he leaned a little,he was fine reclining a bit in the stroller, as long as he was

strapped in.  And thus, his first excursion in the "Big Boy Stroller".

This was followed that evening by his first "Big Boy Bath" in a bathtub.  For a few weeks now, Glenn and I had said to each other, every time we used the baby tub, "We are going to have to move up to the bathtub soon."  Finally we said, "Tonight is the night."  So we laid a towel down in the tub for him to lay on, and filled it a bit with warm water.  Partly because it is getting colder nad partly because he wasn't sure what to make of this bigger area with water, Jamey cried a bit, but made it through-- with  few annoyed faces along the way when Mommy did things like pour water out of a cup over his head and body, and rubbed the bath soap on him.

His last first on Sunday was only witnessed by Glenn.  Let me preface the "first" by saying that occasionally when I am playing with Jamey, I will take off my glasses, lean down close to his face and just raise my eyebrows.  It usually makes him smile and giggle.  I also figured at some point, maybe he would catch on.  Well, on Sunday, Glenn was carrying Jamey around, facing outwards.  They walked into the bathroom to observe Jamey in the mirror, and when they left the bathroom, Glenn was laughing aloud.  

"Guess what Jamey did when he saw himself in the mirror?" he said.  "He raised his eyebrows at himself!"

And there you have it... Jamey's first "trick."