Wearing: The size three diapers definitely seem to be getting a little snug, and he's been peeing through them pretty frequently at night (unless we change him when he's up for a feeding, which is a major pain), so we might be making the move up to fours soon. At least at night. He isn't growing into the twelve-month clothing quite as quickly as I thought he would--the fact that he is constantly moving might have a little something to do with that--so he's still mostly in nine month clothes.
Eating: Solid foods! And still plenty of Momma's milk. Introducing solid foods has been going incredibly well though. The first night (with oatmeal) he was reaching out for the spoon and helping to pull it toward his mouth, and he hasn't looked back. So far he's tried oatmeal, sweet potato, avocado, cauliflower, peas, pears, and carrot, and they've all gone over pretty well. We started with just offering him food at dinner time, and last week starting offering oatmeal in the morning and a fruit/vegetable in the evening. I'll start offering him something around lunch time soon--he always gets excited when we put him in his chair to eat, so he might as well get started eating the purees we've been freezing (before he starts refusing them and wanting table food--and there are some nights where it already seems like that is the case!)
Sleeping: I think (fingers crossed, knocking on all the wood) we've finally hit a good--or at least tolerable--groove with his sleep. He's usually in bed by 7:30, and then wakes to nurse at 10:30 (give or take thirty minutes) and 3:00 (give or take an hour). And then he's usually up for the day around 6:30. I would love for him to consistently drop to one feeding at night--and there have been a few glorious nights where he has!--but at least he's pretty stopped waking up except at those times to eat, so I'm not going to get too greedy. His naps are still pretty inconsistent, which is probably just going to be par for the course with two active older brothers, but when we're home for naps I can pretty consistently count on him to sleep for at least an hour (usually on his side, of all random things), which is pretty nice.
New Stuff: Well, it shouldn't be too surprising given that this kid goes somewhere in the car just about every day of his life, but he is pretty much a traveling rock star. In mid-March my cousin in Minneapolis was playing the role of Aladdin in his middle school's production of Aladdin Jr. We really want to make a show--but the only one that worked in our schedule was the Sunday matinee. And it only worked for us to go up Sunday morning and come back almost immediately after the play. We decided that was probably too much road time for the older two, but packed Connor up with us--and he was great. On top that, he and I drove out to Kimball, SD (a four-hour drive round trip) the following day for his six-month photos. The kid barely batted an eye. As I mentioned earlier, he is starting to get more mobile, and is desperately trying to figure out crawling on his hands and knees. He frequently pops himself into this position from his tummy, and if you are trying to lay him down on the floor, he automatically tucks his knees underneath him in a crawling position. He has also figured out clapping, and although he won't do it on command, it's pretty darn adorable whenever he does it (and we're not biased in the least, of course). The most concerning development is that his obsession with putting things in his mouth has taken a somewhat dangerous turn--the other afternoon I went to get him after his nap and he had managed to shove his entire pacifier in his mouth. So in addition to making sure he can't get to things that are small enough for him to choke on, we also have to make sure that he isn't shoving larger items completely in his mouth that could get stuck or cause him to gag or otherwise obstruct his airway. Needless to say, he's definitely keeping us on our toes--if we ever thought that we'd be able to "coast" a little bit by the time we had our third kid Connor is certainly proving that that isn't the case!
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