Weaned

The house is very quiet tonight. Jude and his dad are in Wallowa County visiting some of Jude's Eastern Oregon fans. Here are a few cute photos from the last week.

Got to keep the sun out of his eyes...

This one is a little blurry, but it's a good shot of Jude's "happy face".

Making trouble at Grammie's house...

Jude and the "Bottle Dog"...

Jude has started flipping through my books. Not the baby books that we get for him from the library, but my "literature". The other day, he spent over five mnutes (which is a LONG time for a baby) flipping though the pages of my book on the couch. I tried to get a video of it, but as soon as I pulled out the camera he abandoned the book and made a bee-line for me. I decided to post the video anyway, because, well, you'll see...

We finished weaning Jude to formula this weekend. Actually, he pretty much weaned himself. I know most of the books say that babies this age are rarely ready to stop nursing, but it had gotten to the point where I was lucky if I could keep Jude nursing for more than about 30 seconds at a time. If we hand him a bottle, he will lie back on the couch or floor and work on it until it's done (or mostly done), but he has pretty much no patience for eating while being held (even bottles don't work very well while holding him, except for in the middle of the night). I decided that it wasn't worth fighting with him about it, especially since it means I can stop pumping while the boys are out of town. It was a little bit bittersweet for me to realize that he seems happier to not be nursing these days, but all in all I feel good about it. So, he will be on formula for another two and a half months, then we'll start the transition to whole milk. Hopefully that will go as well as this transition!