life with a new baby
Archive for November, 2009
Mr. Monkey Feet
Nov 14th
Nathan has been endearingly nicknamed Mr. Monkey Feet. I’ve talked about it here, where I described his discovery of his legs and feet and how he loves to attempt to eat himself. I love watching him play… he kicks his little legs and feet all over the place. He must love the sensitivity his feet have because he just HAS to touch everything with them… his toys, his face, the speckles of dust in the air… he even attempts to pick things up with his toes.
Once he intertwined his toes in such a way that they got stuck.
He strained to pull them apart.
They finally came apart with such force that it scared him.
He drew his feet up to his face, suspiciously eying them like he was wondering how his own feet could dare to betray him like that.
He even strains to touch my face with his inquisitive little toes when I’m breastfeeding him. Which, by the way, is getting harder and harder. His arms flap around in one direction and his feet are constantly seeking something to contact. It’s like he has four antennae constantly waving around, feeling his surroundings.
It can be quite annoying.
But breastfeeding dilemmas aside, it’s really amusing watching him play because he’ll lay on his back and will pass objects from hand to foot… and sometimes he’ll just rest his hands and let his feet do all the playing.
He’s my Mr. Monkey Feet.
A Deja Vu Day
Nov 12th
Another one of Paul’s broken glasses
Yesterday was a day of recurrences.
Nathan didn’t nap well, which has been an ongoing problem for the past month or so.
He was very, very grumpy.
He also got up twice that night and didn’t want to go back to bed.
And, get this… I broke ANOTHER glass.. And not just any glass… it was another one of my HUSBAND’S glasses! Yes, my buttery fingers have struck again. The last thing I broke was my coffee mug. But at least that was mine. My fingers just have this uncanny ability to annihilate things they touch that belong to Paul.
It’s my super power.
I am not proud of it.
I would much prefer the super power of mind control.
And, to make matters worse, I can’t bend over because of my surgery. So there were these little forlorn fragments of broken glass strewn all over the kitchen floor, mocking me from a million different perspectives. So I did the only thing I could think to do.
I swept all those glinting fragments of broken glass into a sad little pile.
And put a bowl on top of it.
A giant, metal mixing bowl.
Right smack dab in the middle of the kitchen floor.
Paul had to finish cleaning it up when he came home. He wasn’t quite sure what to think of the giant metal mixing bowl sitting upside down in the middle of the floor. He walked in and was all, What’s this bowl doing in the floor? And I was like, Oh that’s just the coffin for another one of your glasses.
Our supply of drinking glasses is slowly dwindling away.
Insulting Advertisment?
Nov 11th
The first time we knew Nathan was coming…
I was watching TV the other day and saw an advertisement for ClearBlue Easy pregnancy test that I found borderline insulting.
Did you know that 1 in 4 women can misread a traditional pregnancy test result?
With the Clearblue® Easy Digital Pregnancy Test there’s no need to interpret the lines. Its advanced digital display tells you in words whether you’re pregnant or not.
What? Are you seriously telling me that 1 in 4 women CAN misread a pregnancy test? By definition, that means that 1 in 4 women have the physical or mental ability to misread a pregnancy test. Sure, 1 in 4 women CAN misread a traditional pregnancy test… but WILL they?
The word “can” isn’t even what gets me in this advertisement. Granted, I’m in pain right now so that has put a dark cloud of bad-mood gloom over my normally rosy outlook on life, but seriously, ClearBlue Easy, do you really think women are too stupid to “interpret the lines?” Because I’ve never, ever thought there was anything remotely difficult about reading what the box says is pregnant or not pregnant… .especially since all pregnancy tests come with directions.
And included in those directions are descriptions and pictures of what a positive result and a negative result look like.
I’ve never thought it was that difficult to understand.
But that’s just me.
Maybe some women truly get confused.
But I’ve personally never known any one who couldn’t tell the difference…
ClearBlue Easy, I think you should rethink your advertising campaign.
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