Look Who's Talking

We had a great Labor Day weekend. I took the boys down to Naperville and was able to spend a lot of quality time with family. My sister recently moved to downtown Chicago and she was back for the weekend and my brother had some time between school and work to hang out.We also got together with the entire Jurgensen family and all of my extended family was finally able to meet Dominic for the first time. It was a blast!

The Jurgensen Fam

We're still working on self-feeding and he seems to be getting better. He loves yogurt melts but most of them usually end up stuck to his hands and face. We also tried the sippy cup for the first time tonight. He doesn't quite get the hang of it, but he understands the concept at least.

That's a yogurt melt stuck to his chin

Not a huge fan of the teething biscuits

Trying out the sippy cup

Since life is starting to become more "normal" I decided to try to get back to some of the normal things I did before all this went down. I started making Dominic's baby food again which has actually been great. I have a really hard time feeding him jarred pureed meat, it just smells awful and looks gross. Since he can't quite feed himself table food yet, he still gets the mushy stuff. I've got a great baby food cookbook and I've been whipping up some goof stuff. I'm not going to lie, the chicken, sweet potatoes and apples smell and taste just like Thanksgiving dinner! I also attempted to start cloth diapers again. Not sure if this is a sign or not, but the first day back at them, Dominic had the biggest blowout I've ever seen. I almost threw away the diaper (and it's a $30 diaper), but instead I cleaned up all the poop that was EVERYWHERE and decided to shelve those for a bit longer. One thing at at time I guess...

Using his right hand to play

Sporting some new kicks

I was getting Dominic ready for the bath tonight and I heard babbling from the bedroom. Apparently Dominic had a lot on his mind. I kept trying to get him to do it on video, but he'd only do it when I wasn't watching him. Hence the reason I'm filming from the corner :o) It's just so fun to see him doing new things almost every day.