Update

Despite the lack of blogging recently, it hasn't been for a lack of action. In summary:

Brennan has his 6th month appointment next week (can you believe it?), and Theresa and I are anxious to check out his stats. We theorize that he's having some sort of growing spurt because the past few days, he's been drinking like a machine (30+ oz. per day) and also eating 3 meals a day. The first few weeks his actual food eating was a little hit or miss, but after an introduction to pears he's been going full force. We think he liked pears so much it completely changed his perspective on solid foods altogether. He seems to like fruit the most so far, but not necessarily bananas, and he peas are by far his least favorite, though he still manages to gobble them up, begrudgingly. He's been eating 3 "meals" a day for the last few days, because he has been eating so well, and has been hungry for formula so much, we thought he seemed ready to make the leap. So far so good, although we'll see if Dr. Myers agrees (neither of us can remember the progression from when Audrey was younger, so we're sort of winging it). He also sprouted his front two bottom teeth last week, but only took a break for a couple of days before he started gnawing anything in sight again. A 2nd pair of teeth might not be that far behind. He just learned how to roll from front to back (back to front was a few weeks ago) and can sit up by himself (relatively unassisted). He continues to sleep pretty well at night, despite a series of 5am disturbances, but he typically falls asleep pretty quickly afterward. His napping hasn't changed, consisting of a series of 20ish minute naps throughout the day. No matter the circumstances, he rarely sleeps longer than that, and although at this point he should be down to around 2 long-ish naps a day, he seems to prefer power napping.

Audrey's potty-training is still going great. A few pee accidents have occured, but that's to be expected, and she is so good at using the potty the rest of the time we're certainly not concerned about it. She's become adept at going by herself for the most part, and we've outfitted most of the toilets with kiddy potty seats and step stools to facilitate her independent potty usage. Recently, her favorite past times are doing puzzles and playing grocery store. Her imagination is starting to blossom - she is a wonderful check-out lady, a thrifty shopper, and we've even started making up stories at night. It's like fill-in-the-blank. Last night involved two tigers, one of whom loved sausage, a panda and a walrus. And for the past few weeks she's graduated from taking baths to taking showers at night. Not sure why we didn't try it before, but it actually requires a lot less effort on our part, so it's been a good transition for everyone. Last night she decided she was having a picnic with all of her bathtub toys (complete with a washcloth blanket), so she has a lot of fun too.