As some of you may know, Jim and I absolutely love our Flip camcorder. (We both bought one for each other for Christmas so we could take videos of JT!) Of course, we’ve taken many small videos of important events in JT’s life so far: coming home from the hospital, on the beach at Banks Lake, play time, and more. I decided to start posting some short clips on the blog. I’ll call it Flip Clips. Our first clip shows JT sneezing and smiling. Don’t let him fool you; he actually has a gigantic smile that he will flash at you, and the one in the video is pretty small comparitively.
Thank goodness, we discovered that JT just needed a different type of binky. It started like this… ever since birth, JT has loved sucking on Jim’s pinky. We had tried Soothies pacifiers, and sometimes he liked it and sometimes he didn’t. I had tried my pinky, and he never wanted it (my pinky is about the same size as the Soothies). Then one day I remembered that Jim’s pinky and my thumb are almost exactly the same size. I tried my thumb instead, and he loved it. I realized that we needed a pacifier that was shaped like my thumb, not like my pinky. I went to the store and opened packages of binkys until I found one that is the same size and shape as my thumb. And he loves it! No more fussy night time… and when he’s ready for a nap, I just swaddle him, give him his binky, and he sucks himself to sleep. Very nice. I also read that children who fall asleep sucking on a binky have a lower risk for SIDS, so that’s a bonus. Mothers of the universe have hope: maybe you haven’t tried the right one yet! Sometimes we still snuggle him to sleep, of course.
This week JT has really started to show some personality. He thinks lots of things are interesting, and may gurgle or smile if he is so inclined: my hair tickling his face, a soft cloth brushed down his face, the “tickle monster,” watching the monkey toy that hangs over his changing table, holding his new rattle toy (pic below), and getting pulled up to a sitting position. Those last two are mostly because either Jim or I are making a really big deal out of his success, but he does look awfully proud of himself. Some of the pictures are fuzzy, but that’s because he’s moving so fast!
I almost forgot… he’s making sounds, too. “Muh,” “buh,” “oh,” “ah,” and “ooh” are his favorites.
The Keene Family 