The process of raising a child is full of learning, both for the child and his parents. This week we’ve really started to be consistent with feeding Cole a bowl of solid food and he’s learning to like it (we tried oatmeal tonight for the first time and he really seemed to like it). The real story this week was that we started to teach Cole to fall asleep on his own in his crib… a process that hasn’t gone terribly smoothly, but with some success. We’ve learned that we have a pretty strong willed son. He’s fallen asleep around 9pm each of the past 2 nights and slept longer each night (6 hours last night), but after his overnight feeding he’s refused to go back to sleep. He’s also fought our attempts to put him down for a nap in his crib all weekend… you can imagine how unpleasant he’s been. We’re going to stick with it and hope that he stops fighting it and learns to just go with it and fall asleep when he’s tired. Wish us luck.

iPhone Photos (Cole eating oatmeal for the first time)

This past week was a pretty eventful week (and I’m going to include today in that week)…

• Upped Cole’s bottles to 5 ounces
• I supported a 14 hour software release for work on Saturday
• The Colts and Saints won their respective conference championship games to earn a spot in the Superbowl (for the Saints this will be their first ever appearance in the Superbowl… the subject line of this post is a shout out to them)
• We bought a Blu-ray player and upgraded our home theatre system (more toys for me)
• We had dinner with Steph, Dave, AJ, and Katie at Rudy’s tonight (always good to hang out with friends)

This coming week is going to be eventful too. My birthday is on Thursday the 28th (33 years old). Melanie and I are going to celebrate with a dinner at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse in downtown (pricey, but sooo good). We’re upping Cole’s bottles to 6 ounces and planning on introducing solids to his diet in the next couple of weeks. Cole’s teachers told us that he’s starting to roll over from back to front which is a good sign of the progress he’s making on muscle control. He’s definitely getting stronger… constantly wanting to sit up when we put him on his back (check out the photo below of him trying to sit up in his bathtub).

Photos (all taken with an iPhone):