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Xander Week 48 - First Ice Cream Cone

August 22, 2007

We had a mini family vacation last week. We spent some time at a family cottage - right on the water. I have been going there since I was a baby, and it’s awesome to start sharing some of those memories with my child. While we were there, one of Xander’s grandmothers brought over chocolate ice cream and cones so that Xander could try some. We first dressed him in his swim trunks, and then let him have his first taste of ice cream. He was pretty cute - the cold seemed to be a bigger surprise than the chocolate. He kept making faces when he put his tongue on the ice cream, but he kept opening his mouth for more… He got covered in melted ice cream of course, and then we immediately went swimming. It was a great afternoon

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Sippy Cup Success (sort of…)

August 10, 2007

Xander finally figured out how to use a sippy cup! Yay! I read lots of advice, and I used most of the suggestions that people posted for me here. I kept giving Xander sippy cups, and he kept thinking they were toys. Then earlier this week I found a Nubby brand sippy cup that has a soft silicone spout - similar to Xander’s bottles and pacifiers. I also liked that there isn’t a removable valve that I have to clean separately (and then later loose), the valve and spout are all one piece, and easy to clean. I bought them on a whim at Target (though I found them for a better price at Baby Center later), and was shocked when Xander figured out how to get the juice out of it! Unfortunately, he kept opening his mouth and spilling the juice down the front of his shirt… So, he’s figured out how to use the sippy cup, but the spill-proof top doesn’t prevent Xander from spilling the liquid - I guess we’ll have to keep working on that one

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Xander Week 47 - Daddy’s Boy

August 8, 2007

Xander is finally shifting out of this phase, but it was pretty funny for about a month - Daddy was the man, and it didn’t matter what we were doing or where we were, if Daddy wasn’t in the room and/or paying attention to Xander, he was upset. It didn’t matter if I was playing with him, or feeding him, etc., if Daddy was home and happened to walk through the room, and didn’t stop to play with Xander, then he would cry - even if Daddy did stop to say hello and kept going, Xander would cry when he walked away. I suspect this was more a man thing than just a Daddy thing - when Xander visited my parents, he did the same thing when my father walked out of the room. I worried for a little while that we were entering a stranger anxiety phase, but he’s still fine when we leave him at day care. He gets mad if he’s alone in a room, but I’m starting to become an acceptable substitute for Daddy again

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First Steps!

August 3, 2007

This last Sunday (the 28th of July) we were visiting Zach’s mother for her birthday. While we were there, Xander finally got up the courage to take a few unassisted steps! We talked him into doing this a few times that day, but I haven’t been able to talk him into it since. He has started using his walker this week - and the smile on his face when he’s motoring around the living room is priceless! Now we’re just wondering how long before Xander starts wobbling along on his own…

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Xander Week 46 - Sippy Cup Training

July 31, 2007

Around 6 months I bought Xander some sippy cups in the hopes to start transitioning him. Xander thought they were great fun to chew on, but didn’t really understand their purpose. I continued to give him the sippy cups every few weeks, but continued to get the same results. Now that Xander is getting closer to a year old, I thought that maybe we should increase our efforts. I did a little research on Baby Center, but found that sippy cup training isn’t as easy as it looks. One of the mothers who commented said that her child did the same thing with traditional sippy cups, but understood how to use the kind with straws right away. Inspired, I purchased a sippy cup that had a straw, with the hopes that Xander would just understand what to do with the cup. I should have expected that Xander would have just as much fun chewing on the straw as he did chewing on the older sippy cups. So now we’re back at square one. If anyone has any suggestions on how to convince my kid that drinking out of sippy cups is way more fun that chewing on them, I’d love to hear them!

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