A good nights sleep

I can hardly believe I'm typing this BUT it's been nearly two weeks that Boo has slept all the way through the night.  TWO WEEKS!  And I don't care if I type it here and jinx it now as we are leaving for America on Sunday so it will get messed up anyway!  So yippee - we have a baby (and a mummy + daddy) who is finally getting one good nights sleep after another.  He's usually down by 7 and has been getting up at 7.  It's totally mazers, that's for sure!

Jakson has also been doing very well on the food front, tho that's not surprising.  His weight is also proving how well he's doing as I took him to get weighed yesterday and he's now 17 lbs + 14 ozs!  That's between the 25th and 50th percentile so he continues to climb the charts.  He has a very ambitious appetite and quite regularly eats 3 meals a day and sometimes even a snack!  For breakfast he has things like 'banana toast' which is toast topped with mushed banana.  He loves that.  I alternatively give him different types of fruit for breakfast to shake it up, usually some melon sticks and/or apple/pear slices.  Then for lunch I try to give him some sort of protein, which is mostly chicken or tuna with some veg and maybe potatoes if we had a roast or something the night before.  And then dinner is usually some veggies, maybe a rice or something but i try and limit protein as they say it is better left out of dinner/before bed time to ensure a good nights sleep.  It's just so much fun to watch him mow down - and he's even chewing now!  Chewing with his two tiny teeth but mostly gums :)

And the two bottom teeth are fully visible now and boy are they cute.  He smiled at me today and you could seem them clear as day.  Only problem, i think they are crooked!!  I wonder if it's the dummy?  Gonna have to nix that habit...right after the trip to iowa :)  I also read somewhere that once the teeth push through that we should start brushing.  Does anyone brush their babies teeth?  Because I've tried and he's not so keen.  So i guess i'll just let him 'chew' on the toothbrush for a while and see how we get on.

My next post will likely be from the corn fields of Iowa.  Stay tuned for a full update on how we got on with the plane ride and how Jakson enjoys his first snow storm.  Snow men anyone?