Happy Monthday
(…as if we needed one since that’s all I write about anyway)
Baby Bug is one month old today. WOOT! And guess what? She slept through the night… sort of. I don’t know what to really call it. But she’s not awake and she doesn’t want to eat no matter how many times I offer her the boob. She goes to sleep around 7pm and sort of pig-grunt-horse-whinneys every three hours. I think she’s waking up and I get all ready to feed her but as soon as I hold her to my breast, she’s off to the land of Nod again. There is no bringing her back, no matter how many times I stick my nipple in her half open mouth. She’s a funny little bug. So I guess I should celebrate that I have a one month old who sleeps through the night! For now. It’s just that her mommy doesn’t sleep through the night.
(I think I’m going to have to start blogging at night. Because I am getting NOTHING done during the day. I think the reason she sleeps so good at night is because she does NOT sleep during the day. Gone are my hours of poking around the internet reading other people’s blogs. Gone are my days of a clean kitchen, coffee made and dishes done before Toby wakes up. Gone are my days of walks on the beach watching the sun rise. Well, I haven’t given up on those completely yet. They just aren’t fitting into Baby Bug’s schedule. When we take walks, we take them in the afternoon.)
At one month, I already think my baby is the smartest baby in the world. She is lifting her head up ALL THE TIME and looking at everything around her. Looking, looking, looking… she loves to look around. (No pictures of the “looking” yet because I’m always the one holding her and I’m not so good at shooting myself at that angle.) She just can’t get enough of the looking around businesss. Her favorite position (since birth actually) has been over my shoulder so she can look. She’d be happy if I just left her up there all day. Maybe I could attach a tube from my boob into her pacifier and she could get her nourishment from up there. As soon as I bring her down to put her in the stroller or to feed her, she starts fussing. She does not like to be horizontal if she can help it.
Yesterday, her grandma came over to visit and help me catch up on some chores. Like laundry! I have SO MUCH LAUNDRY it’s not even funny!!! It’s like the laundry monster is taking over my house. How can such a little butt get everything so dirty! It’s funny really. Let me tell you a little story about cloth diapers. We’ll get back to Grandma later.
I use those cloth diapers to protect everything from the amazing squirting power rifle butt. I also use them to stop of my boobs from squirting milk all over Baby Bug’s face. I use them to burp her. I use them to protect horizontal surfaces from random violent spit up. I use them everywhere. Naturally, I’m always running out. Because you know, I don’t have a washer and dryer and the laundromat is across the street, germy and inconvenient.
To keep up with my constant need for clean cloth diapers, any time anybody called me and asked me if I needed anything, I always asked for more cloth diapers. I asked everybody for cloth diapers. In fact, I even contemplated asking the internet to send me cloth diapers. For a while nobody brought me any. I was very stressed out about it. What will I do? There is so much squirting poop!
But then a bugle sounded and everybody brought me cloth diapers. I have tons and tons of clean cloth diapers now. It’s been wonderful. Except when I did the laundry yesterday. I had to wash and fold all those cloth diapers. I folded and stacked them on the coffee table while I watched the olympics. The towers of cloth diapers almost reached the ceiling. And then when it was time to put them away, I didn’t know where to put them. I don’t have enough room! There are cloth diapers everywhere! I could make a castle for Baby Bug to play in out of cloth diapers. But I won’t complain because clean cloth diapers are better than squirty orange poop all over everything. Besides in two days, half of them will be back in the dirty laundry basket again.
But back to Grandma…
Yesterday while I was doing enough laundry to supply a troop of soldiers, Toby’s mom watched Baby Bug. This was especially challenging because Baby Bug refused to take the nice long nap that we’ve become accustomed to. The reason I bring this up, is because my baby is the smartest and most cultured baby in the world. Guess what was the only thing that pacified Baby Bug while I was in the trenches with the laundry? Bethoven. Not “Rock-a-Bye Baby” or “This-Little-Light-of-Mine”. No, Baby Bug likes Bethoven. She calmed right away while her Grandma sang the whole symphony to her. Funny Bug.
In other news, Baby Bug has spots. Baby spots, as in baby acne. Even though she’s covered in little baby bumps that scream at me to pick at them and I don’t (don’t worry) and she constantly has green goop leaking out of here eyes, she is still the cutest baby EVER. She is so cute! I can’t believe it sometimes. I keep thinking I’m going to wake up and it’s all going to be a dream. When she’s particularly fussy (like when she’s the badger baby), I’m secretly glad because I have this theory that if she’s too perfect, she’ll be taken away from me. Like maybe she was just an angel visiting for a short time.
I have this deep inner fear that that stupid fortune teller I went to a long long time ago might be right. Why did I ever go and get my palm read on a street corner for ten bucks! Stupidest thing I ever did. Now for the rest of my life, some random woman’s words are going to haunt me. Why? Because she said I would have three children and one would die. Ugh. Every time I think of it, I get this horrible pain in my heart. She’s gotta be wrong. I don’t even believe in that superstitious mumbo jumbo… except sometimes I do. But she was wrong about some other things, so I’m hoping she’s wrong about everything.
My other theory is that fortune tellers don’t see your future clearly. I imagine if I were psychic, I would close my eyes and see random pictures. How you interpret those pictures is up to the fortune teller. So… in a way, I have had three children in my life and one of them did die. I had a third niece who died at birth. She was badly deformed and only lived a few minutes. It was very very sad but for the best because her life would have been incredibly painful. Maybe the fortune teller was thinking of that baby.
Anyway, I don’t mean to be writing about such sad morbid stuff on a super fun day. As Lauren Stranahan (host couple wife) said, “Happy Monthday Baby Bug!” I wonder what we are going to do today?!!
18 Comments
comfortablycrazy
Happy Birthday, baby bug!!! She is just so cute, and I’m very glad that she’s stayed tiny. It makes me want another baby so badly it’s kind of scary. So it’s a good thing I can’t get pregnant.
Give baby bug a kiss and a hug, adn tell her we love her.
justJENN
Fortune Tellers. PHOOEY.
Clownfish
I’m making a prediction. The fortune teller was wrong. Wow, and I’m accurate too!
lainey
No way was that woman right? No way! Someone should punch her for saying horrible stuff like that!
You guys look so beautiful. I think Baby Bug favors you.
beck
Or perhaps you misscarried without knowing it.
Anna
Happy Monthday!! The photos are great :) Our J loves Mozart! He hums it while playing, but he also hums U2 so I know he will be cool when grows up ;).
Amy
those little grunting noises every 3 hours? IGNORE! Do not attempt to feed until you hear an all out cry! Sounds like your little beauty is well on her way to becoming one of those blessed creatures that ACTUALLY sleep at night. You lucky woman :)
Laura
I wanted to help you on the acne issue.. my son had it horrible and was tested for everything under the sun and the result? He was just getting used to not having my hormones in his system.. it cleared up around 6-8 weeks of age.. you’re not far away!
Kimberly
I went to a fortune teller on my birthday about three years ago in Thailand. He told me lots of things, all very specific, including that I would start dating the man I was to marry the following year, and be married the year after (which was 2004). 2006 = still single.
Don’t worry!
Lisa
Happy Monthday Baby Bug (and Mommy of course)! I am not the kind of person who gives advice, but my son had the most horrible case of baby acne ever, and they have such beautiful baby skin, that the acne is most infuriating to the Mommies. Anyway, I was told by an M.D. to apply a little expressed breast milk on his face, and I’ll be darned if it didn’t work fabulously. It sounds kind of gross, and if you can live with a sticky face, you might want to give it a try!! Congrats, your little one is beautiful.
momma2mingbu
A month?! Where did the time go?
Absolutely agree about the breastmilk on the face. It can help clear up those little baby spots.
And get Grandma to do the laundry while you and the baby rest! People always want to “help” by holding the baby. That’s not the kind of help most moms need – they need someone to help with the laundry, shopping, cooking, cleaning, etc!
aunt kathy
I agree with momma2. Get your “help” to do the work while you are enjoying and nurturing your baby. The help will get to hold the baby at some time, but they are there to help you get your environment organized and livable…and don’t feel guilty giving them work to do. That’s why they came. When that’s done, sit down together with baby and enjoy a cup of tea. “Help” will always hold the baby if you tell them that’s what you need. And they won’t complain about it either!!
josephine
Normally I would agree with you but Toby’s mom is the smallest, frailest woman you’ve ever seen. She’s about three feet tall and sometimes I worry that she can even hold the baby. She wanted to help me with the laundry but the bags were bigger than she is. She did water my plants, do my dishes and empty the catbox even though I tried to stop her.
therese
such a beautiful baby bug! and so much fun to relive all those new baby moments!
fortune tellers have NEVER been correct with me (so I stopped giving them my money).
I think it is a mother’s nature to find something to worry about. I find I worry during the most precious moments — that perhaps something is just not right (or not going to be right). Perhaps it means you’re a great mother — and you’ve bonded deeply with your precious child.
btw, your email hasn’t been accepting e-mails. I tried responding to your email a couple of times and received it back undeliverable.
best! Therese
Daisy Mae
It’s hard to believe she is one month old already. Seems like she was born just a couple of weeks ago. She gets cuter every day!
I had my fortune told when I was ten. What a load of phooey! Take it with a grain of salt because that’s all it’s worth.
Carmen
I LOVE cloth diapers, so if you still want to ask the internet, I’d probably send you some.
And, hey, you totally don’t need to fold them, just toss them into a basket.
Angel
Catching up on your posts–LOVE the new banner, btw ;)
Breastmilk will work for the eye gunk too–put a drop or two in, and then gently massage the corner near the tear duct, helps unclog them.
She is absolutely, hands down, the most beautiful spy baby EVER.