Grunting baby

Ever since we fed Nathaniel some semi-solid, rice-cereal-mixed-with-formula gruel recently, he'd been grunting away.

We read in the "What to Expect" that when a baby first gets a cough, he or she will often continue to cough for a while after the cause of the cough clears up ... it seems they just enjoy making a new and different sound.

Nathaniel did that a few weeks ago -- he coughed randomly and often for a period after a little sickness went away. Then he learned to squeal/scream at a high pitch, and continued to make that sound for a while for no reason.

Now he's grunting. He was a little constipated after the first solid foods, and he was grunting away that evening. Now he just seems to love grunting. At day care, one of the staffers said she was afraid Nathaniel was going to blow his diaper out. Most of the time, however, we check the diaper after the grunt-fest, and he hasn't even gone to the bathroom.

Kids these days.