Adventures In Parenthood

I think Kayden likes to wait all day just to get all cozy in bed to poop....

For 4 nights in a row, we had crawled into bed and I was almost asleep when BBRRRRRRIPPPPPSSSHHH, full nasty diaper... she even smiled really big between grunts and wiggles...

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Since Christmas, we have been randomly giving her tastes of whatever we are eating... Recently, she has really been watching us as we eat so anytime we are eating something appropriately smooshy, we let her taste it. Mashed potatoes and gravy, cheesecake, BBQ sauce, marinara sauce, buffalo wings sauce, etc.

What did we learn this week?

Carrots + raspberries = mess

On 2/21, after a short nursing session, we gave her pureed carrots... she made a funny face and most of it dribbled down her chin but she consumed about 1/2 teaspoon of it...

On 2/23, again, after a short nursing session, I tried again... she actually opened her mouth and took the carrots off the spoon.... then she smiled real big and blew a raspberry at me that sprayed little orange speckles all over herself, me, the couch, and Bailey... She did it 2 more times over the next 3 bites... I finally gave up, but again, she probably got down about 1/2 teaspoon.

On 2/25, I fed her a little more. This time I got her before I nursed her so she was a bit hungrier. This time she took about a full teaspoon with only one raspberry episode...

I plan to keep feeding her a teaspoon of veggies at a time until she hits 6 months, then I will increase the amount a bit and mix in some cereal... We plan to add peas and squash to the mix soon.

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As I mentioned in a previous post, the freezer in the garage broke... the one FULL of my frozen milk... I am not sure how long it had been that way but when I opened it the smell was pretty bad... that's saying something since we were smack in the middle of almost 2 weeks of temps of 32 degrees or less... I tossed probably 4-5 gallons worth of partially thawed milk that had been separated into 2-3 oz portions... there was nothing else I could do... all that work and time and energy: gone with nothing to show for it...

I am keeping up with her with the fresh I pump at work and sometimes over night but it was heartbreaking to trash that much...

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Last Saturday morning, my husband had Kayden all by himself for the first time... it was only for a couple hours but I wondered if he'd change her diaper... it would've been his first... before she was born, he agreed to let me cloth diaper if he didn't have to change them... I had her in a sposie that morning just in case... I was almost sad that I wouldn't be there to take pictures...

When I got home, I discovered that although they survived, they never made it out of bed : -) They were playing with a stuffed dog when I got there...

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Kayden still doesn't roll over. She'll get about halfway and then lose interest. She rolled from her back to her front at the sitters once and about scared herself to death so she hasn't even attempted to in 3 weeks.

She isn't even close to crawling... she hates tummy time and we can only get her to do it for a few minutes at a time before she breaks down...

I am not worried, though, because she is almost sitting up by herself so I know her gross motor skills are developing okay in other areas.

The only problem is she has to be crawling in order to take the Infant Swimming Resource (ISR) class that we are trying to enroll her in this May... I sure hope she is crawling by then...

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ISR pretty cool... ISR teaches infants and young children how to survive and save themselves if they fall into water... check it out at www.infantswim.com

I first heard about it a few years ago but the closest class at the time was 3 hours away. When I saw it advertised in our city, I was ecstatic!!!

It's expensive and intensive, though... $105 just to enroll... then $85 per week for 5-7 weeks... it's 5 days a week for 10-15 minutes per session. The place is a 45 minute drive from us as well... but with us living at a lake, I think it is totally worth it...

To me, it's necessary....