It's a rare occasion that you don't get a big smile as a greeting! Sometimes he'll even blow bubbles at you!
He's saying "woo" in this photo! One of his favourite words!
Fab's family, Danielle and Denis. I think they were talking to their sons Maxime and Gregoire in France, via MSN. Small world these days!
Sometimes Luca fights sleeping . . . but this position he just can beat! He always crashes in this position!
It's been a pretty busy last couple of weeks. Luca turned 4 months old on the 6th!!! (I forgot - oops!) Fabien's dad, Denis, and step mom, Danielle, visited from France for the week. It was their first time to Canada. The weather was good for most of their visit so we had some good adventures. They especially like our squirrels and Montreal's mixed up architecture with different colours and styles on the same building. I think they found it difficult to understand the Quebecois accent - probably like English in Manchester or parts of the southern states. Luca enjoyed their visit and barely touched the ground for the whole week! Danielle and Denis were great with Luca. Danielle helped me a lot with changing diapers, giving baths and dressing him. She never missed an opportunity to hold him. It was also nice to have Fab home from work for the week.
On Wednesday, Danielle and I fed Luca his first solids. He's been biting a lot and sometimes seems like he's still hungry after a full meal. He's also been waking up every three hours at night out of hunger. I bought some rice cereal and mixed it with some breast milk. He seemed to push a lot of it out again (which is apparently a sign that he's not ready for solids yet) and had a slightly upset stomach next the day. Not to be discouraged, (and because my Mother's senses were tingling) Fab and I tried again today, almost a week later. This time we couldn't get the next spoonful to him fast enough! I accidentally made about a quarter cup's worth trying to get the consistency and he almost ate it all! (The cereal box says to start with a tablespoon of milk and equal proportion of cereal - I did double!!!) We actually cut him off a bit before he wanted cause we don't know how he'll take it long term! He crashed after and I'm hoping he'll be gone for 6 hours. Fabien has the magic touch with feeding him, I could get him to take it at all but from Fab he couldn't get enough!!!
He had his second set of shots on Saturday. Out of the two shots (one on each leg) the first was fine, but the second - which is known to be more uncomfortable - made him cry hard for a few minutes. Poor guy. I was trying to feed him but he was too busy being pissed off to feed. He didn't seem to have any side effects after. On Sunday he napped slightly longer than usual. While we were at the clinic, I asked the nurse to weigh him to satisfy my curiosity. He's now (two weeks after his last weighing) 17 pounds 7 ounces - which is a gain of 1 pound 4 ounces! I wonder what eating solids are going to do to him!
On Sunday night, Fab and I decided to take the plunge of moving him downstairs to his bedroom to sleep at night. To ease the transition (for us, I don't think he cares) we have been sleeping down there too!
I think that's all the news we have from our little microworld! The leaves came out on the trees in the last week and the weather's getting better and better everyday. Can't wait for summer!
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