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)