All Things New

It has been a very busy few weeks for Harrison!  Last week it was confirmed that one of his lower bottom teeth has broken the surface.  Two days later, another one had broken through.  I had heard of babies starting to teethe around the 3-4 month mark, but it is very rare and even then most don't break through the surface for a few months.  Apparently this is not the case for Harrison.  At this rate he'll have all of his teeth by the end of the month! One thing I can be truly grateful about is that at least the teething portion of these particular teeth is done. 2 down....a lot to go.

Still chewing on everything!

Another new adventure is the beginning of solids.  We started giving Harrison rice cereal following his 4 month appointment with little success.  I tried to give him multiple opportunities to eat it, thinking that it may be the texture and eating in general that was putting him off.  After many tries, I gave up on the rice cereal.  Maybe he just doesn't like it.  Next on the list was sweet potatoes.  I busted out the Baby Bullet my sister Emily gave us for Christmas and I have to say, that machine makes making homemade baby food so easy!  It took me all of 3 minutes to make 10 days worth of sweet potatoes (all from one large $1 sweet potato mind you). 6 are in the freezer, 3 in the fridge and 1 consumed by a well satisfied customer.

More sweet potatoes please!

Harrison has also started flirting with the idea of crawling.  On a few occasions now he has positioned himself on his knees and bounced his butt in the air like he's trying to move.  Now if only he would lift his face of the blanket at the same time :)  We are in no hurry for him to start scooting or crawling however, one thing at a time!  That and I was hoping not to cross that bridge until we had moved out of our current place.  Doesn't look like that is going to happen!