Thirty-two weeks...

Here we are, another week gone by and a few more stories to tell.

Last Tuesday we went to our friend Olivia's house for a playdate. She lives a few cul-de-sacs down from us so it was fun to be able to just hop in the stroller and walk on down there. Olivia is a sweet, petite little girl and she sits up straight with perfect baby posture. Harrison isn't sitting up on his own yet, but he had no problem scurrying about her living room, checking out all of her toys and occasionally grabbing one from her. I am sure he will get his payback from all of his little friends once they can move.

While we were there Harrison did his "pose", where when he crawls he stops and turns to the side. Mark and I have joked that he looks like George Costanza...so when he did his pose at Olivia's house and her mom Jeanne said, "Look, it's George" I just fell over laughing. See for yourself...Harrison almost has it down perfectly...at least for a baby :-)

On Thursday I took Harrison to the doctor to check out a small rash on the inside of his arms. Turns out it was just eczema and is almost gone already, so not a big deal. But, while we were there we measured Harrison because he sure looked like he had grown...and boy had he ever! In five weeks Harrison grew 1.5 inches!! He is now in the 70% percentile for height at 27 3/4". He was weighed with his clothes on (and a wet diaper...) and came in at 17lbs 9oz, so he's probably a little bit less than that in reality. That put him in the 30% percentile for weight.

Later that day our friend Shane came over while his mom ran to the dentist. The two boys had fun rolling around on the floor together. They are so cute...grabbing each other and trying to figure out what to do with another little person.

On Saturday we tried out the swing at the playground next to our house. Harrison isn't quite ready for it yet, he kind of sloshed back and forth in it. But he loves being outside so hopefully soon he'll be able to enjoy the swing.

Harrison still likes to eat! He loves his carrots, and now he's enjoying sweet potatoes and peas too. He loves eating bananas in his mesh feeder. It's a little mesh bag with a handle on it. You put a piece of banana in it and he can suck on the mesh bag. It lets him eat the fruit without worrying about choking. He tried a piece of peach in it over the weekend and seemed to like that as well. Today I put some blueberry puree in his baby oatmeal and he really liked that. And he is having fun eating rice biscuits and trying to get little puffs into his mouth. He actually got a few in tonight, so he's getting better, but is still a really messy eater as you can see.