More Miscellaneous August Fun

We just got back from Babies R Us where we bought Christian a new travel swing. There's always the question of "where do we put him down" when we are in a hotel room, traveling, or basically anywhere but home. He seems to love his full-size swing, so we are hoping he takes to the travel one as well. Here he is testing out the merchandise at Babies R Us.

With Christian's approval, we settled on the Boppy brand swing. He seemed quite content.

In other news, Christian had his orthopedic evaluation yesterday for his hips and came back with a clean bill of health! No intervention needed, the orthopedic surgeon assured, so we are relieved. As an aside, leaving his appointment I decided to nurse him in the front seat of my car. As I was nursing, I heard some telltale "noises" coming from the diaper region and very soon after felt quite a bit of warmth. I thought hmmm, that's odd, I can't usually feel this much warmth through his diaper. Well, it turns out the 'goods' had not remained within the confines of his diaper at all. They had, in fact, literally exploded up and out the back of his pants, all over his pants, my pants and the leather front seat. My pants were so wet it felt like I was the one who had had the accident! (they were also a lovely hue of bright mustard yellow) I scrambled around the trunk for any absorbent material I could find and ended up using his sleeping bag carseat insert as a mop. Christian's trusty white summer jeans were white no more and he made the trip home in a diaper. I made the trip home with pants saturated through and sitting on a sheepskin sleeping bag insert. All the while, (naturally) Christian was happy as a clam, oblivious to the mayhem he had just put mom through and in a state of post-blowout bliss. That stinky guy.

This week brought two visitors and a photo session: My mom came and taught me and Ev how to make the fermented rice concoction which is supposedly good for nursing (it was a success!). We also met up with Dawn at a park in Northeast Portland where she generously spent about an hour and a half taking photos of 3 adults, 1 toddler and 2 infant/babies. Whew! Brave, she is :) On Thursday night, Lisa came and brought almost-1 year old Zach with her, who was smiling from the moment he arrived. It was the first time he and Christian had met, and we can already tell they are going to be old, best friends! Zach was truly one of the most smiley babies I have ever met and he seemed to thoroughly enjoy maneuvering his little "car" around the house, even managing to reverse like a pro.

This weekend has also been filled with work on our old 1-bedroom unit across the hall. We finally got approval to rent the place so our poor little abandoned condo will be home to new tenants at last! We needed to spiff up the place a bit so Dae spent the morning painting...

Leelee was relegated to the bedroom by himself to avoid the fumes. Poor little guy.

Finally, some other related (and non-related) news:

1) My computer is running at Snail's pace after that nasty virus, so it's time for a system-wide reset or a new Mac!

2) Christian has graduated from his swaddle to a sleep sack. Arms are now outstretched at all times, and legs are contained within the sack (but still frog-like, I am sure)

3) We have regressed: Last week I prematurely posted about Christian's "one wail" prior to bedtime. Well, tonight was another story altogther. After about 1 1/2 hours of full blown wailing, Dad went to retrieve Christian and he emerged from his bedroom a sweaty mess. We took pity, fed him and he dutifully went down to sleep. The saga continues...

4) Christian loves to play with Dae...I feel like I can get a token laugh or smile here and there, but he seems to have the loudest and most prolonged laughing sessions with Dad. It is hilarious!