Since Eva’s Dad ate all the chocolate ice cream we decided to give Eva applesauce instead. Eva cannot really hate all fruits, right?
Wrong!!
Applesauced!
June 2, 2008 at 7:46 pm (Fatherhood, Not Loving It)
Tags: applesauce, baby, food, solids
Shrek
May 27, 2008 at 2:55 pm (Firsts, Not Loving It, food)
Tags: avocado, baby, cute, solids
Eva does not like to eat avocado. She does like to spread it on herself though. She probably heard it does wonders for the skin.
Poop Watch 2008 – Day Three
April 30, 2008 at 4:51 pm (Not Loving It)
Tags: baby, cute, pinger, poop
Are you surprised? It was inevitable that I was going to have a post dealing with poop (and not just the pinger post). Eva is a baby, and while she does considerably more than eat, sleep and poop, poop is still an important part of her day. As unsavory as this topic may be to some of you, you are just going to have to bear with me. As the title implies, Eva has not pooped for THREE DAYS! For a three poop a day baby, I am perplexed. I never thought I would ever desperately want to change a poopy diaper, but here I am. So, like every good mother, I called the advice nurse. She said I needn’t worry, unless Eva hasn’t pooped for 7 days (and a few other things I won’t discuss), hence Poop Watch 2008. I’ll keep you posted.
Update: Over almost as soon as it started. Last night (4/30) Eva pooped!
Little Burrito
April 24, 2008 at 10:22 am (Not Loving It, Sleep)
Tags: baby, cute, Eva's Dad, painful, swaddle
We have officially stopped swaddling Eva when she sleeps! We stopped the weekend of the heatwave because it was too hot. I didn’t want to post about it because I didn’t want to jinx it. We had a painful couple of days. She was waking up every 45 minutes to 2 hours. See previous post. Plus, we would get her to sleep and then, as soon as we put her down into the crib she would wake up and start wailing. We almost gave up, but we held strong and now, she has given us almost 4 hours. Not as great as the 5 to 6 hours we were getting before (or 8 hours that one day I still remember fondly) but I’m sure we will get there eventually.
The photos I’ve used for this post are old, and I thought briefly about wrapping her for the blog post, but I didn’t feel like risking it. It is REALLY not worth it.
Update: Only 50 minutes at a time last night! Eva’s Dad and I are really tired! Thank goodness Grandma and Grandpa are coming over!
Only for you Mom
April 10, 2008 at 11:10 pm (Not Loving It, Turning Into My Mother)
Tags: baby, cute, future, vitamin D
Eva does not enjoy eating her vitamin D. I completely understand. I take my vitamins and supplements (all 10 that I have been taking since finding out I was pregnant) in pill form and swallow them as quickly as possible. She has to taste them. Whenever I feed them to her she gets a disgusted look on her face but dutifully swallows until it is gone. (Well, I guess some of it comes out of her mouth.) I feel this is an example of her temperament which will further manifest itself in the future. She will tell me, “Well Mom, I don’t like it, but if you say so, I guess I should [fill in the blank].”
I struggled with whether or not to post this photo. It looks like she ate something horrible. However, I threw caution to the wind and here we are.
Update: Apparently the photo above was a hit, so here are a few more.
Eva Can Eat
March 29, 2008 at 6:33 pm (Firsts, Not Loving It)
Tags: baby, cute, Eva's Dad, nursing, solids
At four months, Eva can eat solids. But she is not ready to eat solids. I am not ready for her to eat solids. She has been so dependent on me these past four months and it is hard to think of her gaining independence. I know. This is just the beginning.
Eva’s pediatrician told us that there is a window between four months and six months, and if we miss it, it will be hard to get her to eat. So, Eva’s Dad put together the high chair and now she is going to eat with us at the table in the hopes of her establishing an interest in food. It will be fun to gaze across the table and see this cutie.
Four Month Appointment
March 27, 2008 at 8:09 pm (Not Loving It, Pronouncements, Sleep)
Tags: baby, cute, doctor, food, stats
She is sleeping like a little angel in this photo, but it took a lot of effort. (In the interest of disclosure this picture was taken 1.5 months ago, but it is very cute.) Sleep is a continuing struggle for our little family. And now that she is so excited by the world and pays so much attention, getting her to sleep in public is close to impossible! Well, I can’t say that. We went to dinner with friends at Bagan (sister to Burma Superstar) a great Burmese place in Alameda. Try the wok-tossed broccoli. It is ridiculously amazing. You would have no trouble feeding a toddler this broccoli. It was very loud and crowded and she just passed out! But today I went to the Moms’ group, and she would not fall asleep. I think I missed a cue, because she was really upset. We had to leave early. I can’t bring the birthing ball everywhere!
I think what was really going on was that Eva was anticipating her four month appointment. Everything went really well. She is doing great. And of course, the stats: Height (or length, hmm) = 24 inches, Weight = 13.5 pounds, Head Circumference = 16 inches. She’s right around the 50th percentile (up from less than 10% at birth!) with height a little bit higher.
Snowball Leggings
March 26, 2008 at 6:45 pm (Loving It, Not Loving It, Turning Into My Mother, water)
Tags: baby, cute, laundromat, poo, sweater shaver
So, when I was younger, my Mom would sometimes wash my darks with whites and I would end up with shirts with little white balls on them. I hated this. Well this weekend I washed Eva’s brown knit leggings with whites, on warm. They turned into snowballs! I loves these pants, and our friends bought them at a sample sale so I can’t go and buy new ones. So I broke out the sweater shaver. I can’t believe I am shaving these little leggings! I can’t believe I have time to shave these little leggings! But they are cute.
On another note, I am washing my sheets for the fourth time this week. That’s Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. These diapers just don’t hold it in. Sometimes I feel like the laundromat is my home, but dirtier (if you can believe that).
Update: Make that 5 nights this week. After Eva’s bath, I put her on the bed with diapers underneath. However she just keeps trying to flip over to her tummy, and oops, back to the laundromat.
