First Holiday

We had our first vacation since well before Ronan was born this week past. We packed everyone (including Bailey) and everything (except the kitchen sink) up and headed to North Conway in NH where we’d rented a house by the lake.

It was a week of firsts for the monkey. He had his first vacation, first time sleeping away from home, first time on a train (the whistle was a bit loud for him, but he otherwise enjoyed himself), first time eating out at a restaurant, first time eating Indian food, first swim in a river…all in all it was a good week and it was nice to get away and to spend some time together as a family.

6 Months Today

My baby boy was six months today and six months ago I couldn’t even imagine being where we are now or how much he would have grown and changed in such a short time.

Of course, he’s kept me on my toes from day one and just when I think I have him figured out he turns it all upside down on me. Just in case I hadn’t quite got the memo yet, today he’s decided that he was going to go to bed at 3:40pm this afternoon. It’s now 6 hours later and he’s still fast asleep and I’m sitting here wondering when he will wake and if he’s going to want to be up (with me of course) for hours later on tonight.

Dan’s feeling guilty because while he often puts the monkey to bed for the night, he’s usually not around when he goes down for naps but today he put him down for his afternoon nap so now he’s wondering if he confused Ronan into thinking it was bedtime. I’m pretty sure it was just coincidental!

Today was the first day of starting him weaning properly using BLW (baby led weaning) and I had cooked up a big dinner with roast veggies and chicken expecting him to wake up many, many hours ago so we could all sit down together as a family to eat. That obviously didn’t happen, but tomorrow is a new day and as Dan told me, there’s many more days and many more meals to come that we’ll get to sit down and have together as a family.

Ronan’s First (Typed) Words

I don’t know what it is about buttons (and keyboards) that prove so irresistible to babies, but here’s Ronan’s first (typed) words after he manbabyhandled my laptop away from me on Wednesday. Secret genius code or random blathering? Who knows? He certainly seemed focused and intent about it all.

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