Following the last post, we decided to supplement his bottles with a little rice cereal in an effort to get him to stay full for more than and hour or two, and perhaps, to get him to sleep longer at night. Honestly, this kid is a little chubby pink velociraptor.
If you believe the picture on the front of the box, if he eats this he'll be out in the fields, shirtless, harvesting his own crops in no time. We'll see.
He's really good at holding the bottle himself now. I can just hand it to him in the bouncy chair. As long as the initial docking procedure is executed well and he doesn't miss and poke himself in the eye, he can drain the whole bottle without help.
Occasionally he gets a little bit lazy though. If we stay in North Carolina, I imagine someday in 35 years or so that he'll be doing this with a bottle of Miller Lite. Sittin' in a Lazy Boy, with a beer resting on his chest. Watchin' that there NASCAR.
He's also really good at putting his feet in his mouth. When was the last time you tried this? Go ahead and try it!
The odds of him ever getting that ivy-league scholarship decrease dramatically every time he tries to put both the foot and the bottle in at the same time though.
Of course he'll get into an Ivy League school...probably when he's four. Look at that kid...four months old and already holding his own bottle and feeding himself. Before you know it he'll be at the fridge and fixing it himself.
ReplyDeleteAnd...oh, by the way, he is absolutely adorable.
...and he is ambi-footrous. Grandma is right - all-too-soon, he will be in the fridge, and then one of you will have to get a SECOND job just to feed him! But that's a couple of years away. In the meantime - these are the years that you will look back on when he is 13 and weep uncontrollably. :-)
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Don't sweat the rumored "Ivy League Foot-in-Mouth Incongruity"; no such thing. There are plenty of current and past Ivy Leaguers who do nothing BUT put their feet in their mouths; sometimes both at once (George W. Bush comes immediately to mind), some while wearing their shoes. Some Ivy Leaguers put other peoples' feet in their mouths. Most of them are in Washington and New York, of course.
ReplyDeleteDo you really want DB in the company of those losers? Look at the Kennedys; Ivy Leagues, all. Who else has engendered so much ill will and inspired so much contempt. Ivy League, pfaughh!
Consider, however, that there is somewhat of a tradition with UF running in the family. On the other hand, if you stay in North Carolina, DB could enroll in truck-driving school and get his CDA ticket; drivin' the big rigs, that's truckin'! He's born a Tarheel! And, he could just get a little taste of NASCAR living so close to Concord. No doubt, many of his potential NC classmates in secondary school will have ethanol in their veins (well, O.K., that may have nothing to do with NASCAR). Still ...