Totally loving having a highchair even if the dishawasher safe tray is too long for my dishwasher. Best part about feeding in the high-chair? It puts me out of sneeze range. I've managed to keep myself much cleaner by using the high-chair.
Gwen is loving the bath whale. Most kids I know don't like getting water in their face, but Gwen keeps grabbing the top of the whale so it squirts her. She loves bath time way too much. She manages to soak everything including me. I've talked to other moms who give their babies bathes before bed to calm and soothe them... not me. I bathe her before bed to wear her out to the point of complete exhaustion. Hey, whatever works.
More on the dental front. First tooth is almost all the way out and is being quickly followed by the other bottom front tooth. No more finger chewing... well not my fingers anyhow. She can chew on her on form now on.
Now that she's rolling and scooting everywhere I've started baby proofing the house. The first thing I did was to put foam bumpers on the edges of the hearth. Gwen was very pleased by this. She's convinced I just installed a giant mouth level teether for her.
So we ended up getting cable for the first time in years because it was bundled with the internet and phone. I gotta say... I'm finding today's childrens' programing to be rather disturbing. Yo Gabba Gabba is currently more than I can take. I may have to work my way up to it slowly. On an up note though, I now have a new favorite Wonder Pets episode. My favorite was the one with the baby chimp who was lost in space. Not much beats 'baby chimp, take the banana out of your ear!'. My new favorite episode is now Wonder Pets Save the Rat Pack. There's 3 singing, dancing rats. One white rat named Blue Eyes, one white rat named Dino, and one brown rat named Sammy. I love childrens programming that recognizes that adults are being subjected to these shows and decide to include little things for our amuzement as well... though the rat pack may be a little obscure. The mom-to-be I was watching it with had no idea what the episode was based on.
And now to chase down the critter... again.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011
Child Proof Challenged Parent Here!
I would like to take this moment to thank Fisher Price for having a moment of pity of those of us parents who get so frustrated with the child proof packaging that we often need to put the toy and half mangled package aside for a cooling off period before beng able to give the toy to our child(ren). I can only hope this is a continuing trend and not just a one time packaging lottery.
I put together the high chair and broke a nail doing so. After having a tug of war with her over the tray while trying to get it on the chair, we officially had our first meal in the high chair... some of which ended up christening the new chair after being regurgitated. Its supposed to be easy clean. The jury is still out on that one. The cushion was easy enough to wipe off, but I'm really not looking foward to having to detach the cushion to clean underneath where her mess went through the hole for the crotch piece. I've been watching last seasons Project Runway and for some reason the word crotch always comes up and it tends to make me giggle.
In an effort to avoid the whale toy packaging I unboxed her other toy she got this past weekend and got it together. I have a feeling I'm going to be going through a lot of AA batteries here in the near future. She loves it. Its one of those things she can sit in front of and push buttons or stand behind it and push. I'm so glad these toys come with a low volume setting. When I popped the batteries on it was on the high setting. It was loud... like I don't know how they can say its safe for your child to sit infront of it loud.
After this I decided to stop procrastinating (my favorite hobby btw) and deal with this well packed whale bath toy. I opened up the bottom panel and was pleasantly surprised to see that instead of the wire twisties from hell, there were these paper cords that could be easily unwraped from the cardboard to free the toy. They actually kinda remind me of the not-stick on the Saftey Suckers I used to get from the Radio Shack as a kid... back before Radio Shack was so commercial... but that's for later.
On a more positive note, my sleepless nights of the last week have been rewarded! Someone is finally actually cutting her first tooth. It is visibly clear as its breaking through the gums (bottom on her right side if anyone cares). I'm going to attempt to torture her with the camera later today and maybe if you're lucky I'll figure out how to post pics on this thing as has already been requested.
I put together the high chair and broke a nail doing so. After having a tug of war with her over the tray while trying to get it on the chair, we officially had our first meal in the high chair... some of which ended up christening the new chair after being regurgitated. Its supposed to be easy clean. The jury is still out on that one. The cushion was easy enough to wipe off, but I'm really not looking foward to having to detach the cushion to clean underneath where her mess went through the hole for the crotch piece. I've been watching last seasons Project Runway and for some reason the word crotch always comes up and it tends to make me giggle.
In an effort to avoid the whale toy packaging I unboxed her other toy she got this past weekend and got it together. I have a feeling I'm going to be going through a lot of AA batteries here in the near future. She loves it. Its one of those things she can sit in front of and push buttons or stand behind it and push. I'm so glad these toys come with a low volume setting. When I popped the batteries on it was on the high setting. It was loud... like I don't know how they can say its safe for your child to sit infront of it loud.
After this I decided to stop procrastinating (my favorite hobby btw) and deal with this well packed whale bath toy. I opened up the bottom panel and was pleasantly surprised to see that instead of the wire twisties from hell, there were these paper cords that could be easily unwraped from the cardboard to free the toy. They actually kinda remind me of the not-stick on the Saftey Suckers I used to get from the Radio Shack as a kid... back before Radio Shack was so commercial... but that's for later.
On a more positive note, my sleepless nights of the last week have been rewarded! Someone is finally actually cutting her first tooth. It is visibly clear as its breaking through the gums (bottom on her right side if anyone cares). I'm going to attempt to torture her with the camera later today and maybe if you're lucky I'll figure out how to post pics on this thing as has already been requested.
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