Baby Waffles

Mini waffles for a mini person. Too bad for him he didn't get to eat any day-after-Christmas waffles. Maybe next year!

Baby's First Citrus

Not sure he'd like it so much if he got that grapefruit open, but it makes a good toy.

5 Months Old!

5 months! Definitely not a little baby anymore. He still pretty much refuses to go to sleep or stay asleep so my life kind of revolves around reading about sleep and worrying about sleep. But he is doing lots of others things, since he has so much awake time to do them in! Forrest started eating solid foods this month and he's already very good and stuffing things in his mouth so he took to it right away. He started rolling over, sort of. He does it occasionally, and I'm pretty sure only by accident. This is most likely because he doesn't get much chance to practice since he's being held 90% of the day. He has also really started noticing Lotus, for better or worse. It's entertaining for him, but not so much for her since all he can do so far is try to grab her fur. But Lotus is of course reaping the benefits of the aforementioned start of solid foods, so she's still coming out ahead.

Science!

Forrest's first visit to a museum! We had a night out at the MIT museum thanks to a department holiday party. Lots to look at and a great chance to snap a selfie with Kismet!

First Snow

Sister Lotus

Nice shot of the kids. Lotus is a little unsure of Forrest these days since he's learned how to grab. But she has quickly discovered the benefits of a brother who eats solid foods too!

Playground!

Forrest has started playing on the playground with Yeye and Nainai. Winter is a good time to play because it's too cold for the big kids but not for grandparents from Harbin!

Curious George

A little young to understand the momentous occasion of meeting a celebrity, but here we are with Curious George. In person he's just as curious as you would think!

Nibbling My Toes

Just wanted to see what they taste like! Truthfully his feet are probably the cleanest part of his little baby body, since they are always covered up. Yum!

Piano Prodigy

Babies love baby grands! He's almost ready for kinderhythms.

Happy Thanksgivukkah

Yeye, Nainai, and Forrest enjoying their first Thanksgiving and their first Channukah, on the same day! Forrest took a nap in the middle but did experience the rest of the festivities.

Forrest had a little lamb...

...and some mashed potatoes. Here he is eating his second food- lamb! Just kidding, though he did get to try some more foods at his first Thanksgiving, like persimmon and pumpkin!

First Food!

Yesterday I gave Forrest his first taste of solid food. It was bananas! Literally and figuratively. Of course it wasn't that solid since I mashed it up. The reason I chose bananas was that I was making banana bread. But regardless of the circumstances, he seemed to really like it. So I see lots more food in his future!

Best Time of the Day

Morning is a good time to be a baby. It's a good time to be a mom too, in fact it's my favorite time of day. When he's just woken up for the day is about the only time he's content to lay still, so we get about 15 minutes to snuggle, play, and look out the window before it's time to get up.

Little Landlord

Nainai's latest nickname for Forrest is little landlord, and you can see him here surveying his territory. Although it's true that we do whatever he wants, the actual reason she calls him that is because he's fat. Back in feudal China, the peasants were poor and had no food while the landowners had plenty to eat and grew fat. So, our little chub has been dubbed the little landlord.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Are caterpillars nocturnal? This one seems to do most of his eating at night.

4 Months Old!

Another month under his belt, Forrest is now 4 months old and 17.5 pounds. In the past few weeks both his body and his brain have definitely been going through a growth spurt. That said, I don't think there's been any time in his life so far that he wasn't going through a growth spurt. When he was 0-3 months old he pretty much wore 0-3 month clothes, but now at 4 months he's already outgrown the 3-6 clothes. Cognitively he is in a whole new league too. It's like suddenly he got real eyes and now he just can't get enough of looking at stuff! And shoving it in his mouth too, because he's probably started teething as well. His legs are strong and he loves practicing standing. He can roll from his back to his tummy but only by accident so far. The main struggle of this month has been his sleep. People talk about the 4 month regression but I'm not worried about it because it's hard to regress if you've never progressed to begin with. Forrest won't go to sleep unless he's being held and regardless he wakes up every two hours, sometimes like clockwork. I've got a pile of sleep training books but I haven't had time to read any of them and even when I do, I'm not sure sleep training is for us because he still seems so little - and so hungry! So that's the news at 4 months!

Apples

How do you like them apples? Forrest likes them a lot. He especially likes to drool on them.

Hell in a Handbasket

Forrest's first Halloween! Not only a costume, but also a comment on new motherhood. Next year we'll put roller skates on Lotus and have hell on wheels too.

Go Sox

Forrest showing off his Red Sox pride, and his actual red socks that nainai knitted for him. I have to admit I didn't watch even one minute of the series because that was my main chance to sleep, but Forrest spent many nights with daddy watching the games while he should have been sleeping too.