1) My child's fingernails! Oh, how they grow. How I try to trim them. How I accidently clip the edge of her finger once in a while, causing her to scream and me to writhe in torments of motherly angst!! [Aside: blogger's spell-checker is telling me that "accidently" is spelled wrong? But it thinks "accident" is correct? accidentlly? No, it doesn't like that either (and neither do I.)] The result: most of the time she has Claws. This means that living with my child is rather like living with a non-declawed kitten, but a kitten who wants to snuggle and cuddle and be held all the time, and drink milk out of sensitive parts of my body. Oh, the claw marks! The scratches! But somehow from my baby, I don't really mind.
2) I am so Busy! With the Christmas Project(s?)!! That I can't tell you about here! Because the intended recipients read this blog!
3) I finished Till We Have Faces. So very, very good. Want to re-read immediately. However, no time! See: Christmas Project(s?) above.
4) I have been Happy for the past 36 hours because I Vacuumed Thursday night. My entire outlook on life changes when I Vacuum. Isn't that disturbing?
5) My husband did not get the job from the nice government organization. :-( But God will provide something! And his wonderful wonderful adviser found Grant Money from the sky to pay him in December for work he's been doing. You know what this means: Santa Claus money!! I didn't realize how much fun it is to play Santa Claus and buy baby toys. :-) Want to see what we got???
Fisher-Price Listen-Up-Rounds
Also, Look-a-Rounds; I'll spare you the picture, which is completely similar.And the Roll-a-Rounds Pull & Spin Caterpillar:
and the plane:
[Aside: why does every toy nowadays have to be marketed with "developmental benefits for baby"? I am not selecting toys for my child based on their ability to "develop motor skills" or "encourage hand-eye coordination" or teach her things like the alphabet and numbers. I select toys based on how much FUN they look like to play with. Is it just me? I mean babies learn things like eye-hand coordination naturally, don't they? Fisher-Price and the other toy companies make it sound like if we don't buy THE RIGHT TOYS our child will be an inert lump of non-functioning flesh at 12 months. I don't believe them!!]And a Basic Rubber Ball from Walmart. 94 cents, friends!!
And this little piano:
So, I would like to get a storybook or two and maybe a puzzle to add to the loot, but it might or might not happen in time. It's okay though because I have a sneaky suspicion her grandparents just might be doing a little shopping too. And our apartment will only hold so many toys!!6) My child went to the pediatrician Monday! She is 14 lbs 10 oz, 25.5 inches long, putting her in the 75th percentile for both weight and height for 4 month olds. Not bad for a preemie!! She has almost tripled her birthweight, and, as I suspected, is perfectly height-weight proportional. Also: her head is in the 95th percentile. Clearly she has plenty of room for visions of sugarplums. :-)
We also were told that her right eye appears to be turning outward, and that they would check again at her 6 month checkup and if necessary make an appointment for her with a pediatric opthomologist. Nate had lots of vision problems as a kid, and vision therapy helped him a lot, so I'm glad that if she does have a problem, at least they've caught it early. Still, I'm a little apprehensive about it, not really welcoming the thought of glasses and patching at an early age and the possibility of eye surgery somewhere down the road. But I know God is wanting me to rely on Him and have a good attitude about it, and when I think about these things I always welcome a chance to learn to trust Him a little more.
It's funny because I think if it were someone else's kid's eyes, I would think "Hmm, not such a big deal, is it?" But it's MY baby's eyes. Motherhood changes everything.
Love, Neb*This is a non-alchoholic beverage. No infants were inebriated through the consumption of this beverage.
7 comments:
I'm reading this while holding my undeclawed kitten who also wants to be held and cuddled all the time, and likes to chew on various parts of my body (though there's no milk involved). I feel your pain.
Why am I not surprised that your child has large brain capacity? ;-)
The picture of Maddy in the Packing Peanuts is now my computer wallpaper.
~x~ Bizun
Still out here; hi, Neb!!
I'm enjoying your pictures, and I agree with you about the toys, and the Baby Industry. I don't have children, but I've shopped for baby toys before, and they really do use scare tactics. Buy This Product Or You Are A Bad Mother! It's insane. Besides, if all those toys really did what they claim, then each successive generation of people should be smarter than the generation before, due to Advances In Baby Toy Technology, and of course, they're not. People are people. So I'm totally on board with buying toys because they look like fun.
--Amanda :)
what did you think of till we have faces? it is one of my well-loved books.
so i was reading back through your posts and saw that you requested an easy-to-read summary of mythology. the text we used in my mythology course in college was AMAZING and very easy to read (the myths were written as stories, not as a list of facts, etc.): Myths of the Ancient Greeks by Richard P. Martin. hope it helps!
-laura
Hi NEB! :)
I'm here and I'm still a regular checker :) Fun to read about all goings on as usual,
Love,
sugar beet
I, also, have 3 undeclawed kittens. They don't try to get milk out of me (though we *did* have to train one not to try, and another still likes to suckle his fleece cat-bucket), but they like to cuddle, and snuggle, and one has a nightly ritual wherein he curls up around my head and massages my scalp with his claws.
I feel your pain. Just in another (still sensitive, just not quite as much)part of my anatomy.
I think the word you're looking for is "accidentally." Was it Blogger's speel chequer or the Firefox one?
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