Today is Erik's 4 months birthday :) Happy birthday, our little treasure!!
The spring is really, seriously here and yesterday our cherry tree bursted out in bloom (this probably isn't correct English but I really-really wanted to say so:). This is my favourite time of the year, I love it! I go out in our garden (bare feet!) and feel the gentle aroma of cherry flowers.
The Nordic spring is so delicate and beautiful! Our birches also have small light-green leaves now, narcisses and tulips are blooming and my rhubarb is creating it's third magnificent leaf. Some rhubarb crumble pie coming up soon!
Me and Jennifer have already planted out three tomato plants and put som red onions into gardening boxes. She loves to learn about nature and how things work. My little gardener goes out and brings me the watering can, saying we need to go and give tomatoes some water. :)
Jennifer goes to daycare 8-11 AM now. This is what kids get to do here if one parent is staying home with a sibbling. She loves it and fortunately has not even got a cold. Since she is the poor eater she is, we are so happy she keeps up good health and somewhat of this appetite thingie.
As Erik is more and more often laying in his baby gym, Jennifer often wishes to join him and play with him. Hence we have plenty of tandem gym sessions :)
Erik is getting interested in grabbing toys. His favourite toys are his own feet though :) Ever since 3 months filled, he tries to sit up by himself when he is offered hands to help. One can really see serious musclework going on there. :D He also LOVES standing up since he filled 3 months. Laying down is good for eating. Sitting is for lazy people. Standing is for the brave and strong ones! I wish he would show interest in turning around but he isn't. Yet.
Erik is still on breastmilk only. He weighted in at 6500g and 61cm. Since he has somewhat leveled out on his growth chart, I have started to offer him extra breastmilk I have stored (from the time when I induced lactation before his birth).
I bought an Avent feeding bottle which turned out as one of my worst spent money ever. He totally refuses the bottle and just doesn't know what to do with it. As the milk drops into his mouth, he gets sad and cries out, probably begging for the "real thing" he's so fond of. Nevertheless, I have got good results using Medela SNS feeding system. This is basically a plastic bottle that can be hanged around the neck. From that bottle comes out a thin silicone tube which is to be fastened on the breast. This way the baby breastfeeds as usually but gets a little extra from the bottle aswell. Ingenious! I'm hoping to get some extra growing power into my little viking. As both me and our nurse agreed, we'll probably not take the step into formula world. When those 5 litres in the freezer are finished (we use about 150ml/day), we can rather start giving him some small portions of solid food as he will be almost 5 months by then. Right now we will start giving him little crumbles of bread in order to introduce gluten as gently as possible. Agne is gluten intolerant so this is something we are very careful about.
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| Happy in his new hat |
The spring is really, seriously here and yesterday our cherry tree bursted out in bloom (this probably isn't correct English but I really-really wanted to say so:). This is my favourite time of the year, I love it! I go out in our garden (bare feet!) and feel the gentle aroma of cherry flowers.
The Nordic spring is so delicate and beautiful! Our birches also have small light-green leaves now, narcisses and tulips are blooming and my rhubarb is creating it's third magnificent leaf. Some rhubarb crumble pie coming up soon!
Jennifer goes to daycare 8-11 AM now. This is what kids get to do here if one parent is staying home with a sibbling. She loves it and fortunately has not even got a cold. Since she is the poor eater she is, we are so happy she keeps up good health and somewhat of this appetite thingie.
As Erik is more and more often laying in his baby gym, Jennifer often wishes to join him and play with him. Hence we have plenty of tandem gym sessions :)
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| Look how Erik is holding his right foot |
Erik is still on breastmilk only. He weighted in at 6500g and 61cm. Since he has somewhat leveled out on his growth chart, I have started to offer him extra breastmilk I have stored (from the time when I induced lactation before his birth).
I bought an Avent feeding bottle which turned out as one of my worst spent money ever. He totally refuses the bottle and just doesn't know what to do with it. As the milk drops into his mouth, he gets sad and cries out, probably begging for the "real thing" he's so fond of. Nevertheless, I have got good results using Medela SNS feeding system. This is basically a plastic bottle that can be hanged around the neck. From that bottle comes out a thin silicone tube which is to be fastened on the breast. This way the baby breastfeeds as usually but gets a little extra from the bottle aswell. Ingenious! I'm hoping to get some extra growing power into my little viking. As both me and our nurse agreed, we'll probably not take the step into formula world. When those 5 litres in the freezer are finished (we use about 150ml/day), we can rather start giving him some small portions of solid food as he will be almost 5 months by then. Right now we will start giving him little crumbles of bread in order to introduce gluten as gently as possible. Agne is gluten intolerant so this is something we are very careful about.
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| As Erik is growing, it's really interesting to see how our children differ and what's similar. I think most of you agree that these two are obviously from the same "factory" :D |
Awwwww, love the pics of them together. So cute.
ReplyDeleteWonderful updates, So cute and time is just flying by.
ReplyDeleteHärligt att Medela SNS:en funkar bra för dig!
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