a week in review
By heather | July 23, 2008
How has it been a week already? So here’s what I forgot about having a newborn:
- They sleep. Lots.
- I’m totally in love with the little snarfing sound EK makes when she’s ready to eat.
- Breastfeeding sucks. Alex and I weren’t good at it, and even though EK was great the Raynaud’s made it too painful. This means I’m attached to the pump for approximately 2 hours a day. I consider that my workout. On the plus side, I am a machine and already have at least 15 frozen boob cubes stored for later. (Was that too much info?)
Also:
- Two kids requires complicated scheduling and planning ahead that I don’t currently have the brainpower for. Thank god Grandma is here helping or none of us would have bathed or eaten in the last 3 days.
- We are considering a minivan purchase.
- I never, ever planned to drive a minivan.
- I should be napping RIGHT NOW because in a 24 hour period there are approximately 5 minutes where everyone in the house is asleep.
Did I mention:
- The day we were coming home from the hospital Alex fell and required 4 stiches in his knee, while EK and I were at the hospital wondering if anyone was coming for us?
- Stiches in the knee mean no tub baths which equals dirty hair and fingernails?
- Alex is a great big brother - he loves to give kisses and Nuks and bottles and runs to find his sister the minute he gets out of bed?
- Our seven year anniversary was on Monday?
- And we actually got to go out for a nice dinner at a waterfront restaurant? That unfortunately left both of us with upset stomachs - the boil, boil, toil and trouble kind. The only thing we ate the same was salad so I guess we blame the lettuce…
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update
By heather | July 19, 2008
If you haven’t voted on the name…
You’re too late.
Emily Kate arrived on Tuesday at 10:43 after a hard 60 minute labor. (I know…)
More later…
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the naming convention
By heather | July 15, 2008
Baby girl is taking her sweet time getting here.
(And keeping me up at night - do you see what time I’m posting this? 4am? I had to take a field trip to the kitchen because I was STARVING.)
But! Maybe she’s been waiting for this:
That’s right, I called in reinforcements. The lovely Swistle, who also writes here, has this fun baby name blog where you can see our plea of desperation, check out our name candidates, and vote!
I’m due like any minute now so go! Hurry!
(Disclaimer: I actually have a couple weeks until my due date, but I. AM. VERY. IMPATIENT. And also, according to the doctor “progressing nicely” in my labor preparedness and probably won’t make it until then. Yippee!)
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what else don’t I know?
By heather | July 11, 2008
Last night, I noticed that Alex’s fingernails were longer than mine. With OCD style laser focus, I decided that they needed to be cut. RIGHTNOWNOWNOW.
It’s not that I was noticing for the first time or that I’m too lazy to keep up good grooming. It’s become a ritual dreaded by all because Alex has taken against having his fingernails cut.
(Apparently only by me, because a few months ago I was reduced to tears of parental failure when I picked him up from daycare and Miss S told me that he sat there with fingers extended while she did it. Bugger.)
For months now, nail clipping has been a power struggle that I’ve always lost.
(Except when Alex’s finger got accidentally nicked by the clippers - pretty sure he lost that round.)
So they grow…longer and sharper and raggedy until his pinky could pass for a coke nail and the rest could get a french manicure.
Last night I bribed him. With potato chips no less. After a less than stellar dinner performance, where he consumed…blueberries. And blueberries.
WHY DIDN’T ANYONE TELL ME?
You’ve been holding out on me, other mothers. Bribery - the secret of calm and successful parenting!
(Maybe I didn’t get it because everyone else tries to be all parentally correct about it and call it a “reward system”…it’s a bribe and I’m not ashamed to say so.)
This was a turning point in our relationship, and not just in clipping nails - until now reasoning, cajoling, and distracting was pretty much all that existed in my bag of tricks for everything from bathtime to strapping into the shopping cart.
Except for a little nagging guilt about over-processed empty calories and fat kids, we both came away happy and well groomed. I’m already imagining the possibilities…
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