Archive for June, 2008
hey.
I’m guesting over at hilarites ensue today. Stop by and say hi to me and the awesome Liz — who guested here not so long ago — and her new baby girl Clara.
Posted by calm mama on Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 9:06 am in pregnancy | 1 Comment »
ugh.
So, tell me when this gets better.
In my apparent ongoing efforts to live-blog sleep training, an update.
Not only is this difficult, it’s embarrassing. Embarrassing to admit that I let my baby cry, because part of me thinks that is SO WRONG.
How did I get this far?
For one thing, he’d worn us down. In all his […]
Posted by calm mama on Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 8:07 pm in sleep, baby baby baby | 5 Comments »
wow.
Last night, he slept for eight hours. In a row. Nursed, went back to sleep for another three hours. Amazing.
His morning naps are clocking in at closer to two hours lately.
Our evenings seem so much calmer and more spacious.
But here’s my question. When is the OUT part of CIO going to kick in? As in, […]
Posted by calm mama on Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 at 10:14 pm in milestones, sleep, baby baby baby | 4 Comments »
huh.
Last night took another half hour of crying/checking before he conked out.
Tonight, after bath, massage, and books, he fell asleep while nursing.
And that was it.
“The only constant is change.”
Who said that? It was the essay topic on my AP English exam in high school.
No, it wasn’t.
The topic was, “The more things change, the more they […]
Posted by calm mama on Monday, June 23rd, 2008 at 8:24 pm in sleep, baby baby baby | 3 Comments »
and then it happened
In improv, I learned a writing game where two people pass a sheet of paper back and forth, each one taking a turn writing a line of dialogue. A third person intermittently calls out bits of stage direction or dialogue, hopefully designed to cause a change in the action of some kind.
If there are many […]
Posted by calm mama on Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 at 9:51 am in milestones, sleep, baby baby baby, don't panic | 5 Comments »
excrement, effluvia, monkey, toes
Poop. Glorious poop! Solid food poop. How I adore thee. So far, anyway.
Believe it or not, we’ve “caught” the poop. In the sink. Easy enough to do since the boy makes a special “I’m about to POOP!” grunting sound.
He was so delighted, watching himself in the mirror as the event went down. I took a […]
Posted by calm mama on Friday, June 20th, 2008 at 5:31 pm in baby pics, ec, baby baby baby | 1 Comment »
better, better, cute, worse, yummy
His rash is better. Apparently the purple stuff worked. And only a few items of clothing (his, mine) ruined in the process. Post-yeast there was some inflammation from him scratching himself, which we treated with triple antibiotic cream. So that’s all better.
The BOB situation is better. Rumors of his discontent with the stroller were […]
Posted by calm mama on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 at 8:02 pm in sleep, baby pics, baby baby baby, recommendations | 5 Comments »
sleep (mine)
We did it. I did the 11:00 feeding, since I was still awake, and Scott handled the 3 a.m. feeding, and therefore I got to sleep from about 11:30 to 6. Wow. (Say it again with hand gestures for the folks at home — make a “W” with the three fingers of each hand, press […]
Posted by calm mama on Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 at 8:44 am in sleep, baby baby baby | 2 Comments »
follow me into the dark*
Things have been a little rough lately. The sleep debt is apparently cumulative, and my balance received unfortunate bolster from the boy’s recent three-times-a-night wake-up habit. And potentially exacerbated by a rumored-typical hormonal shift at around 6 months.
So I have not been able to perhaps accept with sanguinity the various events that have occurred.
Like me […]
Posted by calm mama on Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 at 10:44 pm in sleep, baby baby baby, just me | 8 Comments »
a video is worth a thousand words
The liver-eating episode. Note how the mother bear licks the liver off her fingers. Don’t tell me that stuff isn’t tasty!