Bungo Family Update: Jan Feb

2010 is off to a fantastic start! Our sweet boy is growing so fast and ready to take off walking any day now. January brought us a lot of new and exciting things. At the beginning of the year I stopped giving Brock his reflux medicine and he's been fantastic! They say most babies will grow out of reflux between 6-9 months and since Brock was showing signs of it clearing up, I decided what the heck. I'm very happy that Brock fell right into that category, is off the Prilosec, doing awesome, and rarely spits up at all. YAY!!! Also, at the beginning of the year I started supplementing formula during the daytime on the three days that I go to work. It got to a point where I wasn't able to keep up my milk supply to his demand, so I didn't have much choice. I was sad at first, but since I'd made it past my 6-month goal, I was ok with starting to wean him, and more than ready to give up mid-day pumping. Over the next six weeks I weaned him completely and now Brock is strictly on formula for his bottle feedings. He has transitioned very well and doesn't seem to notice much of a difference at all. He's eating three solid meals a day and taking four bottles. He's still a big eater and eats pretty much everything I give him. He's not really into meat ,but I don't worry about it too much right now since I think it's more of a texture issue than anything. I'm still making his baby food and now starting to introduce pieces of food for him to pick up and eat himself. Lets just say, Louis and Sam have a new best seat in the house, right under Brock's high chair! Hehe!

In January we found out that Brock won two "cutest baby" contests. No particularly interesting prizes to report, but we were pretty excited. One of the contests Brock was the overall winner of almost 700 contestants. :-) Side note, Joe is the one who entered Brock into all of the contests. I know that's shocking, but it's true.

Brock and Mommy took a trip to Houston to see two of my dear friends who both had babies the last couple of weeks of December. We stayed with Melanie and Georgia and had a blast! Getting to meet Jack Freeman and Caroline Ryser was so much fun. I am excited for them to get bigger so they can all play together.

Brock's crawling has really taken off. His army man belly crawl turned into a real crawl around 7 1/2-8 months. After that, it was just a matter of a few weeks before he started pulling himself up. Now Brock is crawling everywhere and pulling up on everything. I'll turn my back to put the silverware away, and by the time I turn back around, he's halfway in the dishwasher! I'm trying out the "No" word but he doesn't seem to understand. He usually just smiles and laughs at me. I think he gets that from Joe..... Just this past week Brock has started to walk around anything he can pull himself up on. Sometimes he gets excited (or maybe he's just being brave), accidently lets go with both hands and of course falls down. He's a pretty tough cookie and usually only cries if he is starting to get sleepy. He did get a small knot on his little forehead last week from a crash with the coffee table. It broke my heart, but I know it's just the first of many, so I better get used to it. At 8 months I took Brock to the Dr and he was 22 lbs and 29 1/4 inches long. I quickly had to go out and buy toddler car seats, since his infant carrier only went up to 30 inches. He seems to be more comfortable in his big boy seat and has a lot more room. It makes mommy sad to see her baby get so big so fast.

In less than a week Brock will be 9 months old. I truly cannot believe it! It seems like just yesterday he was born and Joe and I were settling into our new life as a family of three. Brock continues to bring us more joy every day and I can't imagine my life without him.