The Havens Family: Thanksgiving

November is going by so quickly! I can't believe Thanksgiving has already come and gone. We all enjoyed some turkey and sweet potatoes (even Chris!). I tried a new sweet potato recipe and it was a huge hit. I'll definitely be making that one for years to come! Connor tried some sweet potato chunks and some small pieces of turkey. He gagged on both. I thought we might have a winner with the sweet potatoes since he loves the mashed ones so much, but no luck. We ended up giving him some sweet potato and turkey baby food, which he gobbled up! I think he's just not crazy about the texture of finger foods yet. He did enjoy squishing the sweet potato chunks in his fists.

Let see what else is new... Connor has started holding his arms up when he wants to be picked up. I think that's pretty fun. Chris got him to roll to the right. He still favors rolling to his left, but at least we know he can do it the other way too. We've started going through the stage 2 food. Just the ones that combine the foods he's already tried (the turkey was an exception). We'll branch out some more soon. He is a wonderful little eater! He is now eating 3 meals a day and a pretty substantial amount each time too. Connor is down to two naps a day and is still sleeping wonderfully at night, usually 11 hours (yippe!). He does still wake up at 3:00 am 3-4 time a week, but it's usually because he has worked himself out of his swaddle and wants to be re-swaddled. We still can't get him to sleep without it and I think he's bonded with a certain blanket. I have a hard time getting to sleep without it.

We just got our first snow today and Connor was completely fascinated It wasn't a very nice snow, it was pretty windy and icy so we didn't take him out, but maybe next time.