"Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional."
- Chili Davis
James started going to Daycare this week so we were expecting him to come down with a cold. We didn’t expect him to get RSV and start teething at the same time, but that’s what we got. So instead of tearing up the town this weekend for my birthday, we were home taking care of our baby boy.
That didn’t stop us from from doing something fun with James, and something that I was particularly excited about. Mom bought some steaks since she knows that cow is my favorite food group. And since James is starting to eat solid foods, we thought it would be a good time to let him try his first steak. This is how the event went:
First, Ashlyn gave him a piece of steak and encouraged him to try it. James was interested. I like to think, as he’s staring at the steak, he’s thinking “Wow, what is this heavenly taste?”.
Then mom decided to give him a piece of broccoli. James looked at her like she was crazy, but took the broccoli and put it side by side next to the piece of steak.
The result was exactly like I hoped. The broccoli was put down on the tray and James happily kept the steak. That’s our boy!
And this is a series of pictures showing what the house looks like with a sick baby brother. You can see how upset he is about his fever, most of the time he still smiled through it. And Ashlyn, the ever caring big sister, did her best to entertain James by flying all over the living room.
We really are lucky to have two kids who are so fond of each other. As a birthday gift, I was given a collage of pictures of the two of them together. Ashlyn had been watching the “Charlie bit my finger” YouTube video and she thought it would be funny to put her finger in James’ mouth. He bit her finger.
