We went to story time for 2-4 year olds at our local library and it was so great! Only about 5 kids there with parents to listen to stories and sing songs. Eli thoroughly enjoyed it and listened to all the books attentively. I was so impressed! We let him choose some library books to borrow and he was thrilled with this too. :)
Then we went home for some more play time. We had lunch and took a mid-day bath to get ready for his first Dr. appt. He loved his second bath at home with us too! He jumped in on his own (nearly w his clothes on, before we stopped him and made him strip down)! He was splashing so much and giggling, pretend swimming on his tummy. :)
His Dr. appt went well. I really like his pediatrician! The tough thing was his appt was at 3pm and he was sooo tired that he fell asleep in my arms while we were talking w his Dr. When we tried to wake him up for her to examine him he was VERY unhappy. Didn't want to be woken up or undressed or away from DaddyMommy. She was great though and checked all the essentials around his crying. He calmed down after the check up and even gave us the requested urine sample. Since he had already been so worked up from this visit we decided to take him in for his blood work since the building was right across the street. We had to wait for 40 mins... uugh! while trying to keep him awake w cars, toys, games, tickles... We made it though and got in for his blood to be drawn. He knew what was coming when we sat in that big chair and he cried when he got stuck but then calmed back down. Poor little fella. What an afternoon! He did get a cool band aid though and stickers from both places. :)
His urine sample got the a.okay! His height puts him in the 40th %ile. His weight puts him in the 30th %ile. I'm pleased. :) We'll have another appt in two weeks.
After this we went to our local organic farmers' market to get our CSA food collective produce. He was enthralled by the musicians playing there and got to meet some more friends of ours - Jonathan, Corinne, and Jeff. So nice to bump into friends when we're out and about in the neighborhood! :) We got some poutine and a small pizza. He was very excited to see the poutine and was devouring the french fries before we even got back to the car. This baby likes starchy foods!
For dinner he had poutine, pizza, dried pork floss, pancake w peanut butter, a little red jello and some almond milk. Funny eater, but seems okay. We're just trying to get as many foods into him as he'll try and take. He's usually hesitant w new foods but will try them if they're on his plate and he sees US eating them.
Foods he likes so far:
white bread w butter
noodles
rice crackers
juice
milk
almond milk
yogurt (& yogurt drink)
boiled egg
strawberries
scrambled eggs
green leafy Chinese veggies
dumplings w chicken inside
wheat pancakes w peanut butter
almonds
pudding (vanilla, chocolate, or tapioca)
jello (orange and red)
chocolate milk
chocolate cereal
dried pork floss
peanuts
bananas
pretzels
apple w/o skin
french fries (poutine style)
pizza w red sauce
chicken broth soup
white rice w seaweed paper around it
Friday additions:
corn
mac n' cheese
peanut butter on bread
Not what I would consider a balanced or healthy diet YET, but this is all still so new to him... I think he's doing fine for still being with us for only about a week now. We'll plan to continue to introduce new (and more colorful) foods to him.
It was such a busy day! And we're all still SO tired. Thankfully our Friday will be much slower. We need that. :)
And not from today (obviously) but here are two more cute photos of Eli on the plane flying home with us. I just love his little ears, his profile, his tiny little hands and fingers. Such a cutie!!! :)
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