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345 days ago
Well, I'm angry at Windows Live Spaces (who hosts this blog) because they don't allow me to do picture captions anymore, so we've moved to an interim site until our friends can help me build a new permanent home. Click here to be taken to it, or type snydereditorial.com in your browser, and you will be taken there. Be sure to bookmark the new site so you can get your weekly fill of Theo news! (And of course, news about those other two people who live with the little charmer.)352 days ago
To borrow a phrase from Theo, “MAAAAAADDDDD!!!!” Windows Live Spaces changed their interface/service, and it doesn’t appear that I can add captions to the photos in the blog album anymore! So, you’re left to guess what the heck is going on in each photo. This doesn’t please me, so whenever I finally have a decent break from work, I will explore other blog-service options. This simply will not do! L But on to bigger and better things. As you’ll note from the title of this week’s post, Theo is still not a fan of beans. We tried pureed pinto beans a few weeks ago and got a tepid (at best) response. Green beans fared no better. In fact, he appears to detest them. Apples are our “gateway” food with Theo—he loves them, so we start each solid-food feeding with a couple bites of apples, and then we start sneaking in bites of foods he doesn’t favor so much. And that usually works pretty well, but there’s no fooling the boy where green beans are concerned. He makes a ...359 days ago
Week 34: Happy Thanksgiving! So why is it that holiday weeks end up being busier than “work” weeks?! This has been a busy week around here, as I’m sure it has been for many of you. We started out the week on a rather negative note, in that Theo had a real “Leon” day on Monday. Fussy, fussy, fussy, all day long. So much so that I canceled plans to go out and meet my mom and sister, and I aborted plans to go get Theo his flu shot booster. Why was he so fussy? No idea. He still has no teeth, so heaven only knows. Luckily, Monday was the only such day. He was a cheery little guy on Tuesday, so we got his flu shot booster and he kept me company while I did a lot of work that I couldn’t get done on Monday. And he was cheery again on Wednesday, when Grandma Diane came over to help me prepare the Thanksgiving meal. Amazingly, we got the whole thing done on Wednesday—all I had left to do on Thursday was make the green beans and pop everything else in the oven. Easy! ...364 days ago
Yes, yes, I know the proper basketball commentary is, "He shoots, he scores!" but Theo isn't quite shooting baskets yet. He is, however, now sitting and scooting! He was sitting already, but only if we put him in a sitting position. This morning on the changing table, he rolled from his back to his tummy, pushed up onto his hands and knees, and then pushed himself into an upright sitting position. (At which point I wished our changing table was a wee bit sturdier—it was shaking like a leaf!) Then, this afternoon, he was rolling around on the living room floor while I cooked some pre-Thanksgiving stuff in the kitchen. He has been pushing up to his hands and knees and rocking like mad for days, and it appears he has discovered how to rock fast enough that he actually scoots forward, slowly but surely. Crawling can't be too far behind! Ah, these developments are a wonderful and welcome relief after yesterday, which was a "Leon" day to the point ...
366 days ago
As you might’ve guessed from the title of this week’s post, Theo’s new food for the week was...beans! Pureed pinto beans, specifically. They seem to be an acquired taste for him. The first time we tried them, he made some lovely “ick” faces at me and looked aghast that I would feed him such a thing. (See the blog pix this week!) Chris had more luck on the second try, sneaking in a few bites in between squash and apple bites. And now, Theo is sort of grudgingly eating them, if you sneak them in among things he likes better. A lot of the “appropriate” foods for eight-month-olds happen to be out of season at the moment (peaches, nectarines, apricots, etc.), thus the move to beans. I guess that’s one drawback to making one’s own baby food—you have to kind of go with what’s in season. The boys had a fun Tuesday together this week. One of my authors made a rather ghastly mistake and forgot to submit a third of his book until it was literally two days from going to the ...
