Speaking of tobo, here are some photos:
not the comfy chair! He's really not a fan of going in the car seat unless we are moving.
hanging out in the sling. This is my hot-chick sling from before. Tobo actually will sleep in this while we're at the office and I'm working.
helping mom with the camera. Well, he's still not reaching out for things, other than kisses from momma on his hand.
so happy to be playing on the changing table! This is what it's all about.
I'm awake! Hanging out with grand-nana's blanket again. He likes it a lot and it's a great size for traveling. Warm too.
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Tobo is somewhere around 11 weeks old now. Highlights these days include:
- My fist is delicious!
- I *hate* waking up and not knowing where I am. I rage RAGE at the world, especially if I'm hungry.
- I'm cool with the sling, though we'd better be going somewhere in it.
- I like to sleep through the night as long as I feel dry. Otherwise, we're up every couple of hours.
- I am sooo sleepy after a day of hanging out with other people.
- I'm about to go on my first airline trip in a few weeks.
- I'm almost old enough to go in the nursery at church, if momma can let me go. [Apparently the separation anxiety is *much worse* at 6mths than at 3mths]
- I am still howling but now I've added sounds like "il-lee" "go-gaw" and "eh." I especially like it when mom or dad (or both) sing back to me with these sounds.
- My rash is almost gone, though it's trying really hard to branch out to other parts of my bottom.
- My cradle cap is receding thanks to tree tea oil (not allergic to it!) and a bit of selsan blue.
I also wanted to put a diaper update. I know I left you all hanging on the edge of your seats about my diapers. :) Was it the dryer sheets in the dryer on non-diaper loads? Was it hard water? Was it left over diaper rash cream? The answer is...yes. All three were contributing to the problem. I'm happy to say that after doing a stripping in dawn, and then a stripping in calgon (water softener NOT bath salts) the fuzzybunz AND the bumgenius have gotten better. They are still not 100%, but they are at least useable. The down side is that my other fuzzybunz is starting to seize up, which means that it looks like I'm either going to have to strip diapers every 2 weeks for mineral deposits OR find the right amount to add to my laundry loads so that they never seize up to begin with. I'm happy that my mom-in-law wants to do cloth diapers when we're in Mich. We'd talked about doing it for florida too, but my folks have a HE washer, so I'd need advice on what I'd need to do differently. It also means lugging all of our diapers with us (because tobo will use them all in a day) but it might be worth it to avoid more diaper out break.
Our lives are getting more interesting. Paul has volunteered to help with the senior high youth at church, which means he was out sliding down the slip and slide on baby oil Sunday evening. I'm starting that as a movie night for myself and tobo so that I get a bit of relaxing too during the week. We're schedule to join a small group / home group thing on Tuesday this week. I'm hoping it goes well and I'm pretty sure it's what I want to do. Of course, I'm not totally sure what goes on at these protestant small groups. It will be a new experience. I'm debating putting tobo in the nursery for service. At the moment, we're doing sunday school at 9, hang out in between and then service at 10:45a. Or rather Paul is doing this. I'm usually feeding tobo in between and then coming in after the music but for the message. So I guess what I would do is the same, but I'd just leave him in the nursery for the last 30 minutes instead of taking him with me. I'm not quite ready to do this, so we'll see. I need to read up on my development books for his age, cause I have no idea what to expect at the moment.
Work is going alright. This week starts candidate course for June, which is what we went through in October last year. This time around I'll be making business cards and prayer cards for folks, while trying to wrap up a few other projects. I'm hoping to commit to a schedule at work so people know when I'm in the office. Now that Paul and I have been switched to what amounts to "salaried" at OMF (instead of employee and contractor) we can set up flex time for both of us. I'm still working from home, but I just need to be visible there so people don't think they have been abandoned.
I must dig out my kitchen so Tobo can get a bath later. so I'm off to clean up a bit.
6 comments:
Productive and lovely day for you!
I love his face in that first photo. CANNOT WAIT TO SQUEEZE HIM!
Cloth in Mich, eh? I would like to--we do not do well at night in disposables--but I don't know about lugging it all when I am already an overpacker and with the new luggage restrictions etc. I wonder will it be easier or harder if we are both doing it? Wash together if we can just keep track of whose is whose? Hmm, will ponder more. Maybe we can just use them at night.
A little Dawn once in a while might be enough to keep your dipes OK. We have not had any more problems, though we must not have the crazy hard water. Oh, and we have an HE washer--basically use 1/2 as much detergent, maybe add an extra rinse, and you should be OK.
We have an HE washer too. We don't do anything different with anything. But with diapers, who knows.
You MUST MUST MUST leave Sam in the nursery. I think this for a few reasons, but the main one being - you're NEVER going to be ready. And do it now so he gets used to it. Don't be with him constantly for many months and _then_ start to leave him. It's bad. Real bad. Do it now for short periods (30 min at church) with trusted folks - honestly, what's going to happen in 30 minutes?
And THEN I encourage you to start leaving him longer. When you're at parents/in-laws - actually go out. Like for an hour. Or two. Without Sam. He will live and believe it or not, your brain & body needs the break.
And yes, I'm saying this with a stern voice. Because it's so, so necessary.
Amy, could you go over to my blog and yell at me? My brain needs a break too! :)
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This is the stern face I was seeing for Amy's post.
We are already schedule to go out at some point when we're at my folks place. We'll have to do the same for michigan.
Wendy: when was the last time you left A with a sitter?
yes, that face. :) I live every day by the advice that if mom isn't taken care of, the kids won't be taken care of. It's like on the airplane - put your mask on first before the child's. Because YOU have to be operational to be able to parent your kid. :)
Or that sage piece of advice, "if Mama ain't happy, nobody's happy!"
We left her with a sitter...gosh, it was weeks ago already! Then our friend was here etc. Yeah, my problem is not that I never leave the house at all but that she's with me when I do.
What I need to do is (1) leave her with Aaron more - when he is here GET OUT, necessary or not, and (2) yes, get a sitter more, including even sometimes when I'm here to play with her so I can work/catch up on things. Problem is I paid the girl who sat last time decent money even though she probably would have done it for nothing or next to---now I feel like we have to pay well all the time and DANG, that hurts.
But I will start a fund and get over it!
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