February 2014 – Dunster Blackett: The Life of Carly, Matt & Fitzgerald

24 Weeks: Fitz’s first tooth & a lot more sitting up

The biggest development this week is the arrival of a bottom tooth! It seems to have just poked through the gum. This may explain Fitz’s Niagara Falls-like drooling. We can now add “teething” to our list of Reasons Fitz Might Be Making Noise.

ABOVE & BELOW: Fitz has developed a little case of eczema, so we took him to the Just For Kids clinic around the corner from us.

ABOVE: A 9-week comparison montage: 6 weeks / 15 weeks / 24 weeks.

BELOW: This is another one of my montages comparing Fitz at certain stages (this one in 5 week intervals).

23 Weeks: Naked time & wooing the ladies

In another first for Fitz, our little man has finally started to show interest in food. He has tasted small liquid bits of orange, oatmeal, beef stew, and refried beans. He also got to meet Steve Sheffer for the first time (though they’ve been introduced to each other over Skype). And another of life’s firsts, Fitz leaned into another baby for a big open-mouth kiss and was rejected (see photo at bottom of this post).

ABOVE & BELOW: Fitz charms Uncle Steve.

ABOVE & BELOW: Fitz gets dressed up for Phil’s pot-luck party.

ABOVE: Fitz seemed to taken by the sight of Annie, the daughter of our friends Ali and John. We will say that his technique for picking up ladies (put arm around them, stick fingers in their mouth, and move in for an open-mouth kiss) needs work.

22 Weeks: Sitting up for the Super Bowl

Lil’ Fitz has been working out hard, doing sit-ups, so that he’ll look good when he busts out his bathing suit at Hilton Head in late February. This has also been a week of firsts for him:

He said his first word: “miega.” It is Latvian for “sleep.” We have no idea where he learned it but he definitely said it.
He can now do a mouth “raspberry,” which is very cute to see (see video below). Unless it’s 4:30am.
He is able to now use his arm as a battering ram.
He recognizes the cats. Whenever one of them walks by, Fitz smiles at them and has reached out to even pet them.

ABOVE: This is what he does with 75% of his day: put his hands in his mouth.

BELOW: His new trick, the raspberry.