At one time or another, all of us had hands this small. Liam's got a lot of growing to do and I'm sure we're in for many surprises. I'm sure that as soon as we figure out his current schedule, he'll be finished with that and on to something new. He'll keep us on our toes. For now, he has four states: sleeping, awake and curious, nursing, wanting to nurse (i.e. crying). So, its pretty easy to figure out what to do if he gets fussy. Of course, the most fun time is when he's awake and curious. He looks around and is fun to entertain with various songs, talking and silly noises. I recently found that he enjoys a quick fake bike ride. I prop him up on my knees and support his head while gently jiggling him along straight-aways, whoosh in his ear going down a hill and sway to each side while taking a turn. I figure he recognizes the concept from his mommy's many spin classes (which she took up until the day before he was born!).
Yuki is still quite wary of Liam, but decided that his changing table pad would make an excellent bed. We'll need to stay vigilant making sure Yuki doesn't decide Liam's
bassinet would make an excellent cat bed! Fortunately, the bassinet in our room has a full canopy that keeps him out.
My parents came over tonight and cooked us dinner, watched a DVD with us and then helped clean up. It was fun and a bit of a relief to have a couple other adults in the house. They also brought our second bassinet (given by one of my co-workers) so we could set Liam up on the first floor with a place to sleep other than in our arms. He seems to really enjoy the new bassinet because he can look through the mesh side at the lights in the house - I think he likes the light-dark pattern that creates. Wouldn't it be nice if we were all still so easily pleased? Instead of fancy TVs, we could just buy a small bit of mesh and look at a light bulb WHEE!
At one time or another, all of us had hands this small. Liam's got a lot of growing to do and I'm sure we're in for many surprises. I'm sure that as soon as we figure out his current schedule, he'll be finished with that and on to something new. He'll keep us on our toes. For now, he has four states: sleeping, awake and curious, nursing, wanting to nurse (i.e. crying). So, its pretty easy to figure out what to do if he gets fussy. Of course, the most fun time is when he's awake and curious. He looks around and is fun to entertain with various songs, talking and silly noises. I recently found that he enjoys a quick fake bike ride. I prop him up on my knees and support his head while gently jiggling him along straight-aways, whoosh in his ear going down a hill and sway to each side while taking a turn. I figure he recognizes the concept from his mommy's many spin classes (which she took up until the day before he was born!).
Yuki is still quite wary of Liam, but decided that his changing table pad would make an excellent bed. We'll need to stay vigilant making sure Yuki doesn't decide Liam's bassinet would make an excellent cat bed! Fortunately, the bassinet in our room has a full canopy that keeps him out.
After carefully painting the nursery to match our Pottery Barn Kids "Hey Diddle Diddle" rug, we discovered that the awful stench issuing from the rug was not going away. At first, we thought it was just "new rug smell" and let it air out by opening the window and door to the room. We also vacuumed it a few times. After a month, it still stank just as badly, so we bought a fancy new Dyson vacuum cleaner and I vacuumed it four times, filling the Dyson canister all four times with fuzz. We continued to let it "air out" for another week, all to no avail. Some internet research (why didn't we do that to begin with?) found that this style of rug had some kind of manufacturing defect that caused the smell (theories ranged from insecticide to glue). So now we had to find a rug to match the paint because I certainly didn't want to repaint that room! We ended up finding another rug at Pottery Barn Kids made by a different manufacturer with no smell and that matched the paint well.
