Real Food!

I forgot to post this last week... At Hunter's 6 month appointment, the doctor gave me the okay to give Hunter baby food - veggies first. So on April 6th, Hunter had his first taste of real food - sweet potatoes! Now, if I was a baby, that would NOT be my first choice of foods to try but I figured those were the most mild out of all of my choices. He made some pretty funny faces with the first few bites but after that, he continued to open his mouth for more, so I guess he didn't think they were too bad. Above is a pic of his first bite...

After a few days, I introduced peas to him. He made some funny faces with those too but still continued to let me put them in his mouth - just like he did with the sweet potatoes.

And yesterday, I introduced carrots. No funny faces this time - just grunts for more! I thought that he liked the sweet potatoes and peas, but after seeing his reaction to carrots, I know he definitely prefers carrots over the others! He ended up eating the ENTIRE thing of carrots in that first sitting! He liked the carrots so much, that he decided to smear them all over his head! And of course I documented it...

Lots of milestones!

Hunter finally figured out how to roll from his stomach to his back on Wednesday! We were over at my friend Shelbi's house and he was just playing on the floor and decided that he would just roll over! There was no struggle... he just leaned to one side and that was it! I think he surprised himself!

Also, Hunter sat on his own yesterday! He only did it for a few seconds but he still did it! He hasn't quite figured out how to keep his balance, so we'll work on that in the coming weeks. He's so funny though because he kind of made a game of sitting. I sit behind him and put him in the sitting position. For some reason, he thinks it's fun to just throw himself backwards, so he falls over on my lap. That won't really help us to work on his balance while sitting but I guess as long as he thinks it's fun, what can you do? ;)

Doctor's Appt

I took Hunter to the doctor on Friday for his 6 month appointment. He weighs 15 1/2 lbs! He is in the 15th percentile for his weight, 34th for his height and... 45th for his head. The doctor said that he kinda had a big head but he still has good proportions! :P

The doc started to tell me about how at his age, he would maybe start to get stranger anxiety. About 10 seconds later, when the doc started to touch him, he got the saddest little face and started to cry. The doctor made a joke of it and said, "Oh, Hunter, you don't have to show me your stranger anxiety!" It was sad, yet kinda funny at the same time...

Ugh, but the shots... He was all smiles before the nurse poked him but after she poked him, he bust out the screaming and tears. I'm just glad that I don't have to take him back for another 3 months!

6 Months Old!

Hunter turned 6 months old today! Time flies by so fast! It seems like just yesterday that I took him home from the hospital and now he is a half of a year old! It's nuts!

He is at such a fun age. He is so aware of everything that goes on around him now and it's fun to watch his reactions to different things.

He is also developing quite the sense of humor! If he's in the right mood, he thinks EVERYTHING is funny! I've noticed that the "right mood" is usually when he is really tired and is pretty much delirious! You can say ANY word to him or make any gesture and he'll just laugh hysterically! I tested the "any" word out the other day and he was laughing at words ranging from "hey" to "Nielson." And on Sunday, Josh was putting a trash bag in the garbage can and when he shook out the bag so he could put it in the can, Hunter thought that was the funniest thing ever! I'm not sure what he thought was funny about it; whether it was the sound or just the motion of him shaking it out but he laughed for like 5 minutes straight! I'll have to try and get him laughing on video because it's hilarious!

He still likes to rolly polly as soon as you set him down on his back and he still doesn't prefer his tummy. It makes it hard because he still hasn't figured out how to roll from his stomach to his back. It will be nice when he figures that out, so when he gets sick of tummy time, he can just roll over! The next milestone I am anticipating is him sitting on his own. He's almost there, so I'm sure he'll figure it out in the coming weeks.

His 6 month check up is tomorrow and I am not looking forward to it because the doctor's office = shots. I'll probably make a post about that experience in the next few days...

Jumper Video

I got a better video of Hunter in his jumper yesterday. I figured I would post it because the other video of him that I took on my phone was less than stellar. He makes some noises in it, so it is better with sound... Enjoy! :D

The Jumper pt. 2

Hunter has now mastered his jumper - and it only took him a week! They learn so fast! He can actually chew on this little sun teether thing WHILE jumping now! It kinda scares me but he hasn't hurt himself... yet.

So, he has found his new passion in life - JUMPING! He'll jump even if he isn't in his jumper! If you put him in the standing position, as soon as he feels the ground beneath him, he'll start doing the jumping action! And it doesn't stop there... Josh was bouncing him on his knee the other day and he must have recognized that it was similar to what his jumper felt like, so he start bouncing himself on Josh's knee! I got video of that on my camera, so this video should be better quality than the one before... and it's a lot longer... here it is! :)

The Jumper

Josh put Hunter's jumper together about a month ago but Hunter wasn't able to really use it yet because he wasn't tall enough to reach the floor. I started putting him in it about 2 weeks ago and for the first week, he thought it was okay and would just play with the toys for about 10 minutes. After that, he would get bored with it. But about a week ago, he figured out that he could jump in it!!! He loves it now! It is so cute because he'll just sit there and jump and jump and make himself so tired. So he'll start to whine to get out but he keeps jumping! It's so funny! I guess he hasn't figured out that he doesn't HAVE to jump in it!!! LOL!

I got a little video of him last week going crazy in it, so here it is... (the quality is obviously not very good - being it was taken on my phone...)

Draper Temple Open House

About 2 weeks ago, our family went to the Draper Temple open house. We ended up taking Hunter with us because we thought he would be just fine. Well, everything was going great - he was cooing and grunting and he just loved the temple! Josh kept showing him all of the pictures of Jesus and he was loving every minute of it... until we got towards the end.

I'm not sure if it was because we were walking so slowly or that it was too hot or what, but he just lost it. He started whining and screaming, so we thought maybe he was hungry. So in the middle of the Celestial Room, Josh started to make a bottle. Each family member had a duty - whether it was holding the formula can while Josh scooped out of it or holding the thermos with the water in it - everyone helped out. There wasn't really anywhere to stop to the side to do this, so all of this was happening while we were meandering through the Celestial Room! I bet people thought we were crazy (or possibly disrespectful...)

One of the ushers did say, "hey, we all got to eat, right?" That made me feel a little better about the situation but it was still pretty embarrassing. Josh then got everything all mixed up and got Hunter in the feeding position. I didn't think it could get any worse but then Hunter started choking on the bottle and wouldn't eat it and just started screaming! At that point, it was pretty bad, so we asked one of the ushers if there was any way that we could just leave. They showed us a back way out around all of the people and we got out of there. As soon as we were out of the temple and away from all of the people, he was completely fine.

So, I guess Hunter will be able to say that he is probably the only baby who had a bottle in the Celestial Room at the Draper temple!

Sick... again!

I haven't posted for a while, so I thought I should. Hunter is sick... again! He has been sick 3 times in his short little life! This time hasn't been as bad as the times before but it still is not fun. I wasn't going to take him to the doctor this time because it seemed like it was just a little cold but I called the doctor's office just to tell them his symptoms and they thought he might have an ear infection. So, I took him up there (this was Friday).

When the doctor went to look in his ears, I guess there was a bunch of ear wax in there, so he couldn't see very well (I swear I thought I cleaned better in there! Guess not...) So, the doc made me put Hunter's legs hanging over the table and had me push my hips up against them, so he couldn't move his legs. Then he had me hold his arms to his sides, while the doc held his head, so he could fish out the ear wax with this metal hook thing. I swear, I have NEVER heard him cry like that before! Not with me setting him down when he wants to be held, not with shots - nothing compared to this crying! There were little pools of tears on the paper on the table when he got all done - it was so sad, I about lost it. And after all of that, it turned out that he didn't even have an ear infection! Ugh... well, I guess he might be able to hear better now though without all of that ear wax!

On the way back from the doctor's appointment, I decided that I should use my car wash code that I had gotten about two weeks earlier, because it was about to expire. Hunter was asleep in his car seat, so I thought he would be fine. Well, I was wrong... I got the code all put in and was waiting my turn to go in. All of the sudden, Hunter starts choking on his mucus and just starts wailing. There was no way this kid was going to last through a car wash, especially since he had never been in one before, so who knows if he would have liked all that noise anyways! There was a car behind me, so I ran back to her and said that my little one wasn't going to make it through this car wash, so she could just use my code. She asked if I was sure and I said yes because what else was I supposed to do? So, she backed up and let me out and we went home.

When I told Josh and my mother-in-law that story, they asked if I had taken the lady's car wash code in exchange for mine... nope! I wasn't really thinking clearly, so I didn't even think to ask! DUH! Oh well...

Rolling Over part 2

Hunter figured out how to roll over the other way this morning! He used to just roll from his back towards his right side and then onto his tummy but now he can roll towards his left side too! Now I guess he just needs to figure out how to go from his tummy to his back... and when he does, he'll be able to roll across the room! Won't that be fun! :)