Here's Mr. Grumpus!

So yeah, it was a pretty rough night last night. Not that Aiden was up all night, but he was up frequently just grumping. His poor legs hurt from the 4 needles he got stuck with yesterday morning.

So many people told us "Oh when they get shots it is great, they sleep for like 11 hours!" Well not our little one. Yeah, he slept quite a bit yesterday afternoon, but despite our giving him his Tylenol every 4-6 hours and trying to keep his poor legs comfortable, he just wasn't very pleased.

Hopefully tonight will go better, but we are still going to keep him in our room with us, just in case. If he does alright tonight, tomorrow we may introduce sleeping in the bouncer in his crib and see how that goes.

We tried "solids" officially today. I mixed up some rice cereal in a slightly thicker than liquid consistency, broke out the baby spoon and had a go. I was prepared with two bibs and two burp cloths. The first spoonful actually went pretty well. I gave him just the spoon at first to see what he thought of that. He didn't have the tongue thrust reaction that people say to watch out for, so I thought we had a good chance of success. I got two or three spoonfuls in his mouth before it all started trailing down his chin and onto his bib. Then he wasn't interested in the spoon anymore. Despite trying to get him interested it just wasn't happening. So I added some more water and thinned it out enough for him to take it out of his bottle, which he proceeded to do.

So he ended up getting a pretty decent helping of rice cereal today, he just didn't eat it out of a spoon. We'll keep trying and see if we can find a good trick to getting him to work on the solid foods.