Barnabas Monkeypants

Every day this week, either Kristen or I have looked at Henry and exclaimed (to no one in particular), “He’s changed again! He looks completely different! He’s getting too big! Why am I yelling?”

Other than crawling (which he’s yet to master), the biggest change in Henry of late has been his appetite. Early on, he was very hesitant to eat any solid food, and there were many funny faces to prove it. Slowly, we went from wet rice cereal (very wet), to stiffer oatmeal, to applesauce, to other fruits and vegetables, and so on and so on.

And just as slowly as we added new foods to his diet, he began to eat more. That first month or so, it was only a couple of teaspoons. Then, when we were giving him food from a jar, he could barely eat half a jar.

Well, things have changed. Now, twice a day, Henry eats a jar of something (fruit, vegetable, or animal/vegetable mix) and yogurt. That’s right, not only is he eating an entire package of something, he’s eating two entire packages of something. And he actually enjoys it.

We’ll shovel a spoonful of something in to his mouth, and as we’re digging for more, Henry will be ready, his mouth open, his legs kicking.

All this eating, of course, has meant that he’s growing fast. His thighs are getting chubbier, as are his arms, and after his dinner, as we’re giving him his bath, he has a round belly.

There are still some food issues. He doesn’t like anything too solid (no Cheerios, no table food), and he likes yogurt too much (sometimes I have to feed him veggies in between yogurt spoonfulls lest he not eat anything green at all). But overall, he’s becoming quite the baby food connoisseur.

And let’s not forget the prunes.

So, other than Henry taking eating to the next level, what else have we learned this week?

He crawled! Henry crawled! Isn’t that enough?

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