{"id":223,"date":"2011-01-14T05:37:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T12:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexanderbrantley.com\/?p=223"},"modified":"2011-01-14T05:37:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T12:37:48","slug":"big-boy-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"Big Boy Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

So last week I decided to change up Alex’s eating routine. \u00a0He is still nursing, taking a bottle, and eating pureed food and organic baby food. \u00a0He is going to be one-year-old in a little over a week, and I am awfully tired of putting things in the blender, so I decided to try something new. \u00a0For the first time I gave Alex a meal of all real food. \u00a0For his breakfast he had organic baby oatmeal and half a banana. \u00a0Man, does he love bananas! \u00a0For lunch, I made him half a vegetarian hot dog, half a stick of string cheese, some olive slices, and some chopped green beans.<\/p>\n

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He liked all his food and did a great job! \u00a0I think I just gave him too many choices for his first big-boy meal. \u00a0He got tired of me only letting him have a couple pieces at a time. \u00a0He really just wanted to stuff his face. \u00a0Next time I just won’t show him all of his food up front. \u00a0Then he will be surprised when he keeps getting more.<\/p>\n

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On the sign language front, Alex is still doing well. \u00a0He has added the sign for “all done” to his repertoire. \u00a0He is also getting better at pointing at what he wants more of when he signs “more”. \u00a0It is great fun to watch the light bulb flash when he realizes that making a sign for something will get me to respond in the way he wants me to do. \u00a0 \u00a0Here he is signing “more”:<\/p>\n

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We also went by my old job last week: Huntington Learning Center. \u00a0I was disappointed that my ex-boss was not in that day, but Alex and I had a lot of fun visiting with Jeannette and the other teachers I used to work with. \u00a0Who knows, maybe one day Alex will be a student there himself, working on raising his SAT scores! \u00a0A mom can dream, can’t she? \u00a0\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Pictures from his birthday party are still forthcoming…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So last week I decided to change up Alex’s eating routine. \u00a0He is still nursing, taking a bottle, and eating pureed food and organic baby food. \u00a0He is going to be one-year-old in a little over a week, and I am awfully tired of putting things in the blender, so I decided to try something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYkyR-3B","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}