battle of the belch

Our esteemed Mr. Mellow has begun sleeping for longer stretches of time, and as a result, eating more when he wakes up. Lately, Kenny has been chowing down on six ounces of formula (up from four), and when he's ready to eat, he is ready to EAT. He doesn't take kindly to breaks in the action, and has been putting up a big ol' fuss when it comes to burp breaks.

It used to be that we would simply pause every ounce or two, lean him forward, and get a nice burp out of him. Now, Kenny has no interest in leaning forward (or stopping to, for that matter) and is prone to screaming bloody murder when you try to induce a belly-clearing belch or two. Going over the shoulder tends to be the better technique, which of course leads to a number of stained t-shirt shoulders when you forget to put the burp cloth in place. Ah, Spitty McGee, we know him well.

We're hoping that this is just a phase, but just in case, I'm researching new ways to encourage burping. You know, repeated viewing of "Animal House," and maybe some tutoring from Kenny's "Uncle" Jarrod, who was known to burp the alphabet back in his younger, more gaseous days...