Still-Sick Thursday

Look at our pretty snow! Can you see the lines that make the snow look like the bottom of a lake and the water has slowly receded? Those are from the wind and sometimes they can get a foot tall and the top edge gets sharp and thin. We haven't had any brutal wind lately though, so they're shallow.

Luke is still sick, so we're both in our pajamas. Who am I kidding? It's not just because Luke is sick, although there's something about still being in my pajamas at 11:30 in the morning that really makes me feel like a slob. There's still a little part of me that wants to believe it's possible I might go back to bed soon, if Luke decides to nap. So I stay in my jammies until almost noon nearly everyday, then I start to feel guilty and gross, change into clean, day-time clothes and...Luke goes back to sleep.

Luke has been eating "big boy food" for about a month now. At first we were JUST doing rice cereal and he went through a very short phase of enjoying rice cereal - about three days. Then he seemed interested in my sandwiches at lunch, so I'd give him a tiny bite of bread. I even mushed up some banana with the tips of my fingers and let him suck it off. I was sort of nervous about him having an allergy, but even more nervous about him wanting to stop breast-feeding. I really enjoy nursing him and didn't want him to decide there are better ways to eat than having to snuggle with Mom. I didn't want the "big boy food" to go to his head - he's still my baby!

Then we went to California and it's so hard to keep your eye on him when ten adults are constantly passing him around. I am certain he ate many things that week while my back was turned. But these are the things people admitted to feeding him: grapefruit juice, tea (he really likes drinking out of cups), banana, crackers, a bite of potato out of somebody's breakfast casserole, a bite of a fritter (Aunt Deanna made them...delicious!), and apparently he chewed on Aunt Laurie's cheek (which doesn't actually count as food, but it was a new flavor wasn't it?).

Right after we got back from California we had a doctor's appointment and the doctor said, "Feed him whatever you want, as long as he won't choke on it or have an allergic reaction". So since we've been home Luke's tried stove top stuffing, barley cereal, pizza crust, ritz crackers, raisin bran muffins, rice and roasted carrots. His favorite was the stovetop, but really who can blame him? Thankfully Luke has continued to breastfeed - just one less feed a day. It is so much fun to feed him off my plate and STILL get to nurse him. We now have the best of both worlds. Do you have to grow up, Luke?