and once not even by my own kid. I tell ya, this parenting thing is hard! We went to a friend's place to play on her ginormous castle playplace thing (seriously, it has a climbing wall, slide, swings, teeter totter, rope, ladder, and platform with a periscope and steering wheel), and she was making lunch for the bunch of us, so I took her little boy, 4 months, to change and get ready for a nap. He repaid this kindness by peeing on me. Frigging kid. It dried, so I was fine, but I later got milk and baby spitup on my shirt, and then my own dear baby's pee on me after her bath, which started well and went mostly with no tears, but then quickly deteriorated at the end and the poor thing needed to be fed before she would tolerate being diapered.
things are going pretty well all in all. We're in a bit of a cranky / gassy / growth spurty period, but the nights are still pretty good. Even though when she wakes up, it's sometimes for an hour or so, it's not more than twice a night, so I count myself lucky. The boy is a bit of a challenge, because he alternates between wanting to hold her constantly and wanting me to hold HIM when I'm feeding her and really can't hold him. When the baby is sleeping, he still likes me, but isn't really all that interested in cuddling. Again, frigging kid. I'm sure things will even out, the novelty of the baby will wear off and the boy will go back to doing his own thing most of the time. My sister is making me a sling, which will make it easier for me to tote the tiny girl around while doing stuff for my boy. I have a wrap for her too, but I have a hard time stuffing her in it without both of us ending up near tears.
It's getting late, and the little girl just went down to bed, where she normally would have about 2 hours ago. Gas, maybe, tough to say with a 3 week old what exactly is going on. My mom's up this week, which is great, cause she's very like me, and doesn't cater to the boy's every crazy whim, so when she does go, it won't be a big adjustment for us to get back to normal. The man is away for 3 days next week. I'm not sure if I'm going to stick around here or jump on the opportunity to debut Willow to my extended family and take a trip down to my parents' house. We'll see!
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Have you heard about the Miracle Blanket (http://www.miracleblanket.com/)? As I do not have any babies of my own, I have not actually ever used one.. but some friends got it for their baby and talk to me about it non-stop. They put their son in that thing and he sleeps the entire night.. It seems pretty awesome.. so much so that I sometimes briefly consider having a child just so I can use one.
that's pretty fun. I'm not very good at swaddling, so I may track one of these down and give it a try. Not sure about the arm flaps, but whatev.
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