Rough Night (3/28/12)

Autumn was in bed at 7:30 last night. At 8:10 we here “daddy!” and sobbing. After going upstairs i find out that her water sippy cup she keeps in bed in empty and that’s what all the fuss is about. After mike and I go to bed we here our room door open at midnight and autumn walks in asking if its morning yet. Mike escorts her back to bed and tell her to stay there. About 20 minutes later we hear her crying and yelling again. Mike goes back into her room and finds out that she is crying just because he didn’t put her stuffed bunny under the covers with her and the bunny was apparently cold. After getting up and swapping some laundry in the morning autumn wakes up and comes into the bathroom. She walks right to the window and peers through the blinds to find out if its morning yet and if she’s allowed to get up. I guess mike threatened a butt spanking if she got up again and left her room before morning.

Henry Update:

Henry has been “talking” a lot more lately as well as smiling. He is starting to figure out t hat he has hands too. He keeps bringing the right hand up and rubbing it all over his eye and then getting mad at himself. It’s pretty funny to watch. Since Henry has recently started feeling better I hope that we can get more time on the floor on his belly. The doctor insists that his chronic crying won’t affect his development.

Soy Formula (3/19/12)

After our last well baby visit the pediatrician thought maybe Henry was having issues with lactose in my diet. Since Henry hadn’t gained a lot of weight and has been extremely fussy it was worth a shot at eliminating dairy from my diet. Henry went on soy formula for a day and a half while I stopped eating dairy to get it out of my system. He has been back on breast milk ever since and id doing much better. If only the doctor had recommended this 11 weeks ago we might have saved ourselves a bit of sanity! Henry is also getting gas drops with each feeding to make sure we get most of the gas bubbles up. That seems to be helping too. Henry is a much happier baby and will actually sit in a bouncer or on the floor playing for a few minutes at a time without having a major meltdown. What a difference we have seen over the past week!

Autumn-Isms:

"I’ll just have daddy screw this when he gets home from work"
"Daddy likes to screw everything" (3/22/12)
---she was talking about replacing batteries in one of Henry's toys!


Autumn: "maybe i can watch the dinosaur Diego on my birthday"
Me: "we can watch it right now if you want"
Autumn "we can! oooohhhh I’m so excited" (3/23/12)

Groceries:

While unpacking the groceries after the last shopping trip Autumn found a tub of Folgers coffee in the bags, pulled it out, and exclaimed excitedly “Look, it’s a new compost!” Mike and I were confused for a few minutes until we realized what she was talking about. We currently are reusing an old Folgers coffee bucket under our sink to store the compost items until we can make a trip outside to the barrel. Apparently Autumn thinks that all Folgers coffee buckets are now compost. Too cute.

Work Accident:

Autumns fingers were smashed in the water tank at grandma’s greenhouse over the weekend. Shockingly nothing was broken and she again didn’t learn her lesson. Within ten minutes of calming down she was back in the water tub. That girl is just too rough and tough for her own good.

Fork in the Eye:

Last week while eating lunch autumn somehow managed to put her fork in her eye. Needless to say, it was a huge meltdown. Her eye was fine, just a bit puffy and watered for a few hours. Autumn is constantly fooling around with her silverware after taking bites so it was only a matter of time before she managed to stab herself. She insisted on medicine to make her feel better. Has she learned her lesson? Not at all. At the very next meal she was waving around the fork.