Internet readers, we really need to video little a's crawling attempts because they are awesome. My favorite one is when she is on her stomach and sticks her butt up in the air, scrunches up her feet and pushes her body forward a few inches with her face getting smushed and eating carpet. Then she brings her butt down and face up to look around and see where she got to. I call this maneuver "down dog up dog" as it looks a lot like the two yoga poses in succession. I think this happens because she has sad weak little arms and powerful legs. I mean really powerful legs. Like you know when this girl wakes up because she pounds the crib with her heels and the whole house shakes. Anyway since she is not so good at propelling herself with her arms yet in a hands-and-knees sort of crawl its more of a face-and-knees one.
Sadly, El Esposo has the video camera (aka his phone), not me, so I have to wait til he's around to document this. I hope we capture it before she figures out traditional crawling, which is seriously like any second now. Time to babyproof!
Didn't I JUST have this baby?
29 June 2010
23 June 2010
Top 3 things the OB/GYN said
...at my 6 month post-partum check-up. These are in no particular order because I can't decide which is my favorite:
#1 (said to the baby, halfway through my pelvic exam): So, are you going to be a Gynecologist?
#2: Don't show her to any of my teenage patients or they'll want one.
#3: She's all head.
#1 (said to the baby, halfway through my pelvic exam): So, are you going to be a Gynecologist?
#2: Don't show her to any of my teenage patients or they'll want one.
#3: She's all head.
22 June 2010
18 June 2010
Song contest drawing ever nearer
Check it out at the new blog.
Meanwhile, on a whim, I watched the first episode of the show Thirtysomething on Netflix last night and it blew my mind. I had that show filed away in my brain as a "grown-up TV show" that came on after my bedtime. 23 years later and it IS my life. I guess some things (unlike fashion -- yikes eighties) don't change much. At the end of the episode the character who is essentially me (and any other early thirties newly stay-at-home mom who has just left a good job) talks about how the reason it seems so hard to make sacrifices in life is because they were given so much and had so many options growing up and now expect more than their parents did. A few years back it seems like everyone was writing the same sort of thing about our generation and why a lot of us don't want to stick with one job for our whole career. History repeating itself.
Meanwhile, on a whim, I watched the first episode of the show Thirtysomething on Netflix last night and it blew my mind. I had that show filed away in my brain as a "grown-up TV show" that came on after my bedtime. 23 years later and it IS my life. I guess some things (unlike fashion -- yikes eighties) don't change much. At the end of the episode the character who is essentially me (and any other early thirties newly stay-at-home mom who has just left a good job) talks about how the reason it seems so hard to make sacrifices in life is because they were given so much and had so many options growing up and now expect more than their parents did. A few years back it seems like everyone was writing the same sort of thing about our generation and why a lot of us don't want to stick with one job for our whole career. History repeating itself.
15 June 2010
My debt to society
I just want to throw myself a little victory party for successfully completing two errands that I generally forget today despite the fact that little a is having a fusstacular week.
1)I returned a library book on time even though I didn't read it.
2)I deposited a check the same day I received it (thank you contract employment).
This is the sort of CEO of household stuff I usually fail at. See also cleaning and, to a lesser degree, cooking. The other day, though, El Esposo told me I was a "more than adequate housewife." My response: "You had me at adequate." I am getting better (The dijon crusted tilapia is pretty yum) but there's no need to overdo the compliments.
1)I returned a library book on time even though I didn't read it.
2)I deposited a check the same day I received it (thank you contract employment).
This is the sort of CEO of household stuff I usually fail at. See also cleaning and, to a lesser degree, cooking. The other day, though, El Esposo told me I was a "more than adequate housewife." My response: "You had me at adequate." I am getting better (The dijon crusted tilapia is pretty yum) but there's no need to overdo the compliments.
10 June 2010
Content Management
I'm moving the songwriting contest to another blog as I think it is getting crowded by baby gushing and what-not. Also, this way I can maybe try and foist management of the contest off on someone else that can remember to host it. Anyway, the new blog is songwritingchallenge.blogspot.com
09 June 2010
chronicling babychievements
[Songwriting Challenge is just two posts down!!!]
This is how we make unnecessary compound words: subtract the space and the first syllable and you are there.
Anyway, I see other parents giving stats on their little tikes so since it's the thing to do, I'm in. Never let a trend pass you by, I say.
Until I get lazy.
At today's six month appointment d'terrior (cuz she hates her shots, you see) the babe weighed in at 14lbs 2oz measuring 24.5" lengthwise, with a 17" head.
I just want to point out that the difference between height and head circumference is 7.5 inches. Just in case no one ever told you babies have huge heads, I will tell you now. Babies have huge heads.
Especially little a. Her height and weight are both on the shrimpy side -- around 20% (so 80% of babies her age are bigger than her), while her head size is around 60%. Yeah. Makes you reminisce about a certain scene from a certain movie in the nineties where a certain character is commenting on the size of another certain character's head.
Here's what she's been doing lately:
Babbling -- she just started doing this in earnest like five days ago and now she won't stop. She's been saying mama! Ok, so it's ma-ma-ma-ma-ma, but whatever. She also says ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. A couple days ago she said Obama. I asked her what she thought of him but she didn't really elaborate.
"The Pattern" -- 1) I help her sit up and she plays in that position until she sees something she has to reach forward for. Then she 2) lunges, and folds her body forward until she is on her stomach. Then she 3)whimpers about being on her stomach and sticks her butt in the air until she 4) rolls over onto her back, where she chills for a while until she gets tired of it and starts 5)doing crunches, whimpering, and looking around for someone to start the whole process over with sitting up.
She was six months on the 5th.
Here's a video:
This is how we make unnecessary compound words: subtract the space and the first syllable and you are there.
Anyway, I see other parents giving stats on their little tikes so since it's the thing to do, I'm in. Never let a trend pass you by, I say.
Until I get lazy.
At today's six month appointment d'terrior (cuz she hates her shots, you see) the babe weighed in at 14lbs 2oz measuring 24.5" lengthwise, with a 17" head.
I just want to point out that the difference between height and head circumference is 7.5 inches. Just in case no one ever told you babies have huge heads, I will tell you now. Babies have huge heads.
Especially little a. Her height and weight are both on the shrimpy side -- around 20% (so 80% of babies her age are bigger than her), while her head size is around 60%. Yeah. Makes you reminisce about a certain scene from a certain movie in the nineties where a certain character is commenting on the size of another certain character's head.
Here's what she's been doing lately:
Babbling -- she just started doing this in earnest like five days ago and now she won't stop. She's been saying mama! Ok, so it's ma-ma-ma-ma-ma, but whatever. She also says ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. A couple days ago she said Obama. I asked her what she thought of him but she didn't really elaborate.
"The Pattern" -- 1) I help her sit up and she plays in that position until she sees something she has to reach forward for. Then she 2) lunges, and folds her body forward until she is on her stomach. Then she 3)whimpers about being on her stomach and sticks her butt in the air until she 4) rolls over onto her back, where she chills for a while until she gets tired of it and starts 5)doing crunches, whimpering, and looking around for someone to start the whole process over with sitting up.
She was six months on the 5th.
Here's a video:
08 June 2010
when babies attack keyboards (a guest post)
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