Feed Me, Seymour!
Wonderful weekend. The baby has started eating like a champ, really chowing down. He had been loving the regular fresh steamed greenbeans, but they were a little tough for him to gum through. At daycamp Ms. Melissa gave him canned greenbeans and the are the perfect texture for him. Easy to hold and feed himself, but soft enough to fall apart when he gums it.
He now eats breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner and also has about 24 ounces of breastmilk a day. For lunch today he had a dozen greenbeans, mashed potatoes (rolled into balls he could pick up himself), a little cottage cheese, a few tablespoons of applesauce, a bite of my banana, some water out of a regular cup, and twenty or so Gerber crunchies for crawlers. I could not believe so much food fit in him. He is going to be huge.
After lunch he had a good nap. He snacked again when he got up (greenbeans, of course, you should see his diapers) and had a few ounces of milk on our way to CMoR, Children’s Museum of Richmond.
We had never been to CMoR and went ahead and got a family membership for unlimited visits for a year, even though babies under a year get in free. It will only take six visits for the two of us to break even, but I wasn’t sure if he would even like it, or if it would be a little overwhelming.
We went through the big kid play spaces, a bank to learn about money, an ambulance where kids can wear doctor coats and take care of people, a tiny school classroom, a pretend grocery store with checkout, a garage with a car being fixed by two bigger boys. We looked at the exhibits on the environment, a splash table of the James River, a dinosaur dig, and then we found Little CMoR, the room for under-threes.
Lex was thrilled. We set him down and he zoomed off. High speed crawl, straight for the toys, the other kids, the center of activity. I thought he might be nervous with all the chaos. Nope. Didn’t even look back to see if we were still around.
He played hard, had a blast, impressed other parents with how advanced he is. There was a nine-month old who does an adorable belly crawl, like a dolphin, feet together, pretty fast. His parents pointed to Lex, encouraging him to go mainstream with “see how that baby crawls?” Much bigger kids were fascinated by him, how he came over wanting to join their play, making their folks nervous, “be careful of the baby!” He went right to other adults too, grabbed their legs to pull himself up. The most social kid in the place.
He is going to own that playroom.
