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Jan. 3rd, 2008 08:38 amOur little Bug spent New Year's Eve in style, at a lovely party where various people held him and cooed over him. He's really excited by that. And he slept through his first turn of the odometer, which is great, because I wanted to enjoy my sparkling grape juice in peace and I didn't want him exposed to any of the music coming out of "Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve" this year.
Bonzo sits up all by himself now! He still has to be placed in position, but he has finally learned to work with (not against) the inertia of the massive cloth diaper, and he will chill on the floor and practice his fine-motoring for twenty or thirty minutes at a crack now. It's fascinating for me to watch him sit up. I'm really glad he hit this new stage, because I was (in hindsight) getting a little bored with the lying-down baby games and the high chair. When someone asked me last night what my plans for the evening were, I said with great enthusiasm, "I'm going to take Bug home and watch him sit!" It was first on my list of things to do.
Sadly, he still has no teeth. Not for lack of trying, or nighttime screaming. I really am ready for teeth. We even bought a toothbrush. C'mon, teeth!
We also bought deep-space gear for his rocketship: a fleecy baby bunting that will (supposedly) work in strollers as well as car seats. We've been relying on cotton blankets and close parking spaces to keep him warm in transit, and with the weather in single digits, that just won't cut it. Also we bought two more fleecy swaddlers, because he is suddenly peeing through the night again, but (of course) last night he was happiest with his arms flung over his head. If it took spending an extra $20 to help break him of the swaddler habit, I guess I'm happy to have done so. Anyone want a Kiddopotamus swaddler, size large?
Health insurance continues to be a hot mess. I'm tired, tired, TIRED of dealing with bureaucracy and the belief (my own and other people's) that without a doctor on standby my baby might be at extreme risk. At the same time, with him in the crunchy-hippie day care, I can't afford not to vaccinate him. We're headed out to the public health clinic next week if this doesn't resolve.
A good side to the long break is that we figured out a workable nap schedule for Bonzo, and were actually able to get him down for two naps a day on the last few days of the holiday. This is kind of bad news for me, psychologically, 'cause I couldn't get him to nap before and couldn't deal with marathon baby for more than a couple days in a row. I relied on day care to get him to sleep once in a while. Now I don't need them, and I'm totally ready to quit my job, be a stay-at-home mommy, and knit lace between the hours of 9:40 and 11:10 am.
Eh. Maybe next year.
Bonzo sits up all by himself now! He still has to be placed in position, but he has finally learned to work with (not against) the inertia of the massive cloth diaper, and he will chill on the floor and practice his fine-motoring for twenty or thirty minutes at a crack now. It's fascinating for me to watch him sit up. I'm really glad he hit this new stage, because I was (in hindsight) getting a little bored with the lying-down baby games and the high chair. When someone asked me last night what my plans for the evening were, I said with great enthusiasm, "I'm going to take Bug home and watch him sit!" It was first on my list of things to do.
Sadly, he still has no teeth. Not for lack of trying, or nighttime screaming. I really am ready for teeth. We even bought a toothbrush. C'mon, teeth!
We also bought deep-space gear for his rocketship: a fleecy baby bunting that will (supposedly) work in strollers as well as car seats. We've been relying on cotton blankets and close parking spaces to keep him warm in transit, and with the weather in single digits, that just won't cut it. Also we bought two more fleecy swaddlers, because he is suddenly peeing through the night again, but (of course) last night he was happiest with his arms flung over his head. If it took spending an extra $20 to help break him of the swaddler habit, I guess I'm happy to have done so. Anyone want a Kiddopotamus swaddler, size large?
Health insurance continues to be a hot mess. I'm tired, tired, TIRED of dealing with bureaucracy and the belief (my own and other people's) that without a doctor on standby my baby might be at extreme risk. At the same time, with him in the crunchy-hippie day care, I can't afford not to vaccinate him. We're headed out to the public health clinic next week if this doesn't resolve.
A good side to the long break is that we figured out a workable nap schedule for Bonzo, and were actually able to get him down for two naps a day on the last few days of the holiday. This is kind of bad news for me, psychologically, 'cause I couldn't get him to nap before and couldn't deal with marathon baby for more than a couple days in a row. I relied on day care to get him to sleep once in a while. Now I don't need them, and I'm totally ready to quit my job, be a stay-at-home mommy, and knit lace between the hours of 9:40 and 11:10 am.
Eh. Maybe next year.
