Winston and Food, Part 2

We are happy to report that Winston finished a full meal of rice cereal (ok, it was 1 tsp of rice cereal in about 5 tsp of milk). It took 20 minutes, and most of it ended up on his bib, but by the end he was opening his mouth and slurping off the spoon and at least some of it went down his throat. He is definitely terribly advanced...

The best part is he transitioned to bedtime without a cry or whimper. We're hoping a full belly will mean a longer night sleep!

Winston's First Taste of "Real" Food

And now...the moment we've all been waiting for (or at least anticipating since Dave heard from the "reliable" daddies at his work about the wonders of rice cereal in helping 6 week old babies sleep through the night...).

We finally got the green light from Dr. Sanders to begin feeding Winston.

Boy, has this ever been anticlimatic. I guess we both thought he'd take to it right away (the boy loves him some milk), but instead we have a baby who gets terribly anxious when the spoon approaches and then allows every drop of cereal to spill out of his mouth...over and over again.

Check out the video (yeah...finally figured out youtube!).

The pictures are classic...pretty much the same scene repeated itself this evening as well!

Sporting the elf outfit from Grandma...

What is this nasty stuff?

Seriously...this is gross.

Mom gives up.

Winston's Wisconsin Winter Wonderland

Winston's first trip to Wisconsin included wonderful visits with family, a blizzard, ice fishing, baby in the bar, closed airports and freeways, and a detour to Chicago enroute home!

Needless to say, it was an eventful trip. We visited with Grandma and Grandpa, Jayne, Joe, James, Jeff and many friends of the Wanless family. We attended Cheryl's memorial service, and it was shocking and sad to visit without seeing her friendly face. She was a lovely lady and will be missed. I wish we'd been able to introduce her to Winston.

We took Winston out to his first Madison bar on Friday night...after one too many drunken baby coos, we decided to exit early.

Dave went ice fishing (yes, really) with friends on Saturday morning. Thankfully Winston and I opted out of that and stayed toasty warm inside.

We awoke Sunday morning to blizzard conditions, and with the Madison airport closed until the following Tuesday, we decided to brave the roads and drive to Chicago. Quite an adventure. We arrived home a day later than expected, but the flight from Chicago to Miami was amazingingly calm given the high wind conditions.

Dale and Nate and Johnny (I think). The ice was 5 inches thick.

Sporting our UW Rose Bowl Shirts

Winston in his weird devil outfit with Grandma

Winston meets Fireman Nate

James, Winston, Grandma and Grandpa

Devil Child with Cousin James and Aunty Jayne

Love this picture! Such a photogenic crew!

Houston, We Have Spotted Hair!

Dave, Winston and I spent the first weekend in December visiting our old stomping grounds in Houston, TX. We traveled to and from Houston with several of my colleagues from work (and thankfully, Winston continued to be his charming and quiet self on both plane rides!). Dave got a taste of the full-time parenting experience as he watched Winston for the better part of two days while I was at my meetings -- we both agreed that work for us and daycare for Winston was an ideal situation for our family.

Dave and Winston visited the Houston Zoo on Friday, where they saw two new baby elephants.

Dave and Winston joined me for the lunch on Saturday, where the guest speaker was Rich Clifford, a former NASA astronaut who flew 3 space missions after being diagnosed with Parkinson's. He was diagnosed 17 years ago and this was the first time he publicly spoke about his Parkinson's diagnosis. I actually think it was very progressive of NASA to allow him to fly, and it will be a very inspiring story for many people newly diagnosed with PD.

Below is a picture of Winston with his new favorite astronaut!!

Also, the pictures further on down the page provide undeniable proof that Winston is moving from bald baby to wispy fuzzball very swiftly. It actually looks like he will have darker hair - not the blond baby we anticipated, but we'll see - the FL sun may bleach him yet.

The picture above is probably my favorite picture ever of Winston. I love how it captures his eyes smiling. So sweet.

Here Winston is "reading" his cloth "I love you" storybook. He is wearing a very funny cut-off Rock Band shirt (compliments of Lois) paired with his White Sox pantaloons. Yes, you guessed it, this was a day that daddy was in charge of dressing Mr. W.