It's a fancy new phone with lots of toys. I'm trying to learn how to use some of them, and figured out how to do videos. I apparently can't figure out which direction to hold the phone in though, since my videos are all sideways. Anyhow, a fast one I took of the babe while he was rolling over and over is posted, from my phone, straight to YouTube. Amazing! Here is the link: Calvin video.
Finally broke down and got a new cell phone, since Koodo emailed me a good deal on one. I've had some success with receiving calls in the house so far, so maybe my text messages and phone calls will come through while I'm in the house now. One can always hope.
It's a fancy new phone with lots of toys. I'm trying to learn how to use some of them, and figured out how to do videos. I apparently can't figure out which direction to hold the phone in though, since my videos are all sideways. Anyhow, a fast one I took of the babe while he was rolling over and over is posted, from my phone, straight to YouTube. Amazing! Here is the link: Calvin video.
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Baby Daddy (Sean) took two weeks vacation from work. Which ended up being two weeks vacation for me! I had so much help with Calvin the past two weeks I won't know how to cope again when he goes back tomorrow. Sweet, happy, smiling baby Calvin does not like to sleep through the night (not even close), so it was a great treat to have Sean get up with him at 4:40 am every morning and let me sleep til the next feeding.
We didn't do much of anything during the vacation time really. Spent one day checking out Ontario Place (entrance is free this year while they renovate) and then to Center Island. The Centerville town on Center Island was cute and the city has really done a great job maintaining that whole Island. We enjoyed our visit there, and Calvin's first ferry ride. Yesterday was our friend Tristan's first birthday and we enjoyed another day outside at the Tottenham Conservation Park celebrating his birthday. I haven't updated here in a while. Calvin has moved into a variety of pureed foods, and since he is such a good eater, we started doing mushy and chunky foods a bit early. He has had banana, avocado, sweet potato, steak, turkey, chicken, peas, basil, oatmeal cereal, baby Mum Mum's, one rice krispy piece, zucchini and a bit of lemon. I think that's everything we have introduced so far. He's gone back to nursing a normal amount after two weeks of insane feeding. My milk supply dropped a bit and he suddenly got very hungry, so we were up every hour or every two hours doing feeds overnight for a couple weeks. It was like having a newborn all over again. My milk caught up again, so when I have full milk days I don't feed him overnight unless he won't go back to sleep. I'd rather feed him if it means more sleep for all of us. You know we love our family and friends. We never want to hurt anyone's feelings. We try so hard to keep everyone updated, and plan as many visits with all the different people as often as we can manage. Sometimes every effort isn't enough though and people take things the wrong way and feelings are hurt. It is never intended. There are days where we can barely dress ourselves from the exhaustion of not having slept for seven months, and we really do put in a serious effort to ensure everyone is happy with us and baby. If you are one of the people who feels hurt, please know we love you. Please be patient and understanding - the fatigue we live with is all consuming and makes everything in life a challenge. Speaking of sleep - we got lucky with a happy, friendly baby, so we had to pay somehow. It's in our lack of sleep. Other babies are sleeping through the night. Not this baby. He gets up, on average at least three times a night. Some weeks it is every hour or every two hours, then we get a few nights where it's only two or three times a night. There are rare horrible nights where he wakes up every half hour. Regardless of what time he goes to bed, how many naps he had, or any other alignment of the moons and stars, he wakes up at 4:40 am to start his day. Even the sun isn't up yet. Sean will normally take him at this point and bring him to bed with us and cuddle him until around 5:30 am, when we get up and start our day. While Sean has been home, this morning nap in bed has lasted longer some days, so we get about an hour and a half before it's time for breakfast. We attempted to let him do the cry-it-out thing. It is too heartbreaking for us. I'd rather go without sleep than listen to him suffer. He can go back to sleep fairly fast, so when we get him to the point where he doesn't eat overnight, it's just a matter of walking to his room, flipping him onto his back, putting the soother in and, most times, walking away. For a while we were at the point where I would zombie walk in, flip, plug in the soother, and be back in bed and barely remember having gotten up. Then he went on the crazy eating spurt where we had to feed overnight. I'm super hopeful he will go back to a couple times a night with a soother plugged in and that's it. It was almost like having a real full night of sleep. People warn you about life with a baby. They tell you how hard it will be. They tell you how exhausted you will be. You nod and thank them for the warning, but until you have lived it and experienced it, you have no idea how challenging it really is. You speak with other parents and you can tell the difference between the ones who have had a bad sleeper and a good sleeper. There is a softening around the eyes when they speak of the fatigue, remembering how hard it was. An unspoken understanding exists there and they offer leniency for the current suffers. (Thank you Rob - your patience is appreciated!). But for the record - there is no greater joy or love in the world, than the joy and love you will experience with your child. Every moment is worth it. Every pain is worth it. I can not describe the wonder that encompasses you and completely takes over your soul. You feel full and fulfilled; life is complete and worthwhile. Our little family has made me happier than I have ever been, and this has to be a part of the recorded journey as well. We love you Calvin. |