Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Baby hands
Barrett found his hands this week. Now, instead of being little balls of angry baby fists, they open up into grabby fingers. It's like they're little snails that have come out of their shells to explore the world. Unfortunately, this also means he's been grabbing and scratching at everything, including his face, my face, and Brad's face. Just the other day, I woke up to find he'd gouged out a piece of his nose with a scratchy fingernail (see above). So I have to make sure those little buggers are kept short. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to cut baby fingernails. It involves distracting him with something (ie. my breast) while pulling each little finger straight with one hand and clipping the nail with the other, all without clipping parts of the baby. Don't even get me started on toenails... I have yet to successfully cut those.Some other funny things... He makes little spit bubbles - hilarious. He's also started to be chatty, which I think mentioned before. What I didn't mention is that I managed to get a little video of it. I don't know if I can upload that here or not, but I'll see what I can do.
Monday, February 26, 2007
Oy!
It turns out I have so little time to post here! I feel so truant in my updates. I must apologize to my loyal fan (Maria) and give a delayed shout out to Eric for the comment (and congrats to you and Bex!!).
So, we have a baby now. It's a funny thing to suddenly be a parent. I'm not at all ready to be called 'mom' yet, so I'm glad he didn't come out talking. However, it's true what they say about you immediately loving the little one. What a sweetie! Now, at two months old, he's finally starting to interact with us, rewarding our attention with big, happy smiles and chatty baby sounds.
Other than regular baby things, though, I should tell you about the funny things little Barrett does. The kinds of things that parents forget after a time.
Like the other day, he peed into his own face. Seriously. I was in the middle of changing him when he kicked his legs up into the air, and consequently, also kicked his little penis into the air. And then he started peeing. I have never heard such a terrible wail in my whole life as the one he let out when his face was suddenly covered in piss. No harm done. I promptly called everyone I knew to tell them.
Lately he's taken to sucking his thumb, but hasn't quite figured out how to separate his thumb from the rest of his fist. So he ends up gnawing on the little end of his thumb while shoving his balled-up hand into his mouth. This means the sucking sound is three times as loud as it would normally be - loud enough for me to hear it when I'm on a different floor of the house. I've tried stopping this bad habit in the making, but nothing seems to work. I've tried giving him rattles to hold, swaddling his arms up, and even putting socks on his hands. He just drops the rattles, cries about being wrapped up, and sucks on the hand through the sock.
The last resort (and quickly becoming the first resort) for uncontrollable crying is to strip him naked. He loooves being naked. It's pretty much the only way we can get through a whole tv show or movie. I don't know if it's the freedom of movement or the air on his balls, but you take that baby's clothes off and he'll hang out on the floor for hours. All the baby books say to be quick when changing baby's clothes or diaper, because they'll start crying as soon as their skin hits the air. Those baby books are such a waste of money.
Well, I'll try to post more often from now on.
So, we have a baby now. It's a funny thing to suddenly be a parent. I'm not at all ready to be called 'mom' yet, so I'm glad he didn't come out talking. However, it's true what they say about you immediately loving the little one. What a sweetie! Now, at two months old, he's finally starting to interact with us, rewarding our attention with big, happy smiles and chatty baby sounds.
Other than regular baby things, though, I should tell you about the funny things little Barrett does. The kinds of things that parents forget after a time.Like the other day, he peed into his own face. Seriously. I was in the middle of changing him when he kicked his legs up into the air, and consequently, also kicked his little penis into the air. And then he started peeing. I have never heard such a terrible wail in my whole life as the one he let out when his face was suddenly covered in piss. No harm done. I promptly called everyone I knew to tell them.
Lately he's taken to sucking his thumb, but hasn't quite figured out how to separate his thumb from the rest of his fist. So he ends up gnawing on the little end of his thumb while shoving his balled-up hand into his mouth. This means the sucking sound is three times as loud as it would normally be - loud enough for me to hear it when I'm on a different floor of the house. I've tried stopping this bad habit in the making, but nothing seems to work. I've tried giving him rattles to hold, swaddling his arms up, and even putting socks on his hands. He just drops the rattles, cries about being wrapped up, and sucks on the hand through the sock.
The last resort (and quickly becoming the first resort) for uncontrollable crying is to strip him naked. He loooves being naked. It's pretty much the only way we can get through a whole tv show or movie. I don't know if it's the freedom of movement or the air on his balls, but you take that baby's clothes off and he'll hang out on the floor for hours. All the baby books say to be quick when changing baby's clothes or diaper, because they'll start crying as soon as their skin hits the air. Those baby books are such a waste of money.
Well, I'll try to post more often from now on.
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