so i'm sitting here a few minutes ago, my four-month-old has just started eating fruits. big step in the life of a baby, and, since we haven't felt the need to buy a high chair yet, we've been using her bumbo. well, my little girl is quite the escape artist. being that i can't sit in the floor and feed her due to my accident two weeks ago, i have to put her on an elevated surface (i know i know, buying a high chair is on my list!), in order to feed her. so she's in her bumbo, tray on (because it's harder for her to stiffen up and get herself out), and eating our bananas like a champ.
lj decides that it pisses her off that the bumbo tray is holding her captive, so she throws a huge fit. (we have used a stroller in the past too to feed.) so i look across the room, and little miss' booster seat (high back) is by the door. looks like a high chair to me! so i put it up on the ottoman she was on and it works like a charm! she happily eats her nanners.
we have cut off onesies that are too short to make t-shirts (this is a mimi innovation) and the latest and most funniest happened on (not so) good friday when there was no power in our house (or the rest of our community) for five hours.
my daughter HATES to be hot. so i have stripped her down as far as i can go without egging on a huge mess. she's in a diaper on a blanket with all the windows open, screaming. she needs noise. it's FAR too quiet. so mommy looks over at her laptop. charged battery...nemo...and silence is golden.
some of you may be thinking about what a bad mother i am for letting my child watch television or movies. let me tell ya, some nights the only way she can sleep and we can de-stress is to put her down in front of nick jr. and let her fall asleep. she's a red-head, a very high-maintenance red-head.
i was trying to make goodies for easter with NO power and an infant with no air conditioning, no light, and no oven. so i was able to make my fondant (no baking!) under the light of my genius ott light - if you don't have one, get one! they're a lifesaver!! at this point it is getting warmer and our house has no trees to keep it cool so i opt to go down the street to my ma-in-law's. i put lj (diaper only) in her car seat, gather up her stuff and get in the car, which, thank god, has air conditioning!
we manage the day and make it over to my in-laws' and the power comes back on and ma-in-law and i decide the lj might like to take a swim. she's not quite big enough (or sitty-uppy enough) to blow up the princess pool, but we do have a decent little baby bathtub that kinda reclines...so she fills that up with water and lets it sit in the sun for a while so it can warm up...while we're "swimming," we decide to go ahead and give her a bath. she likes the bathtub a LOT better outside than she does inside! so once again, that ain't white trash...
i have since bought a travel high chair. fisher price, which she hates more than the bumbo. i've heard rave reviews about this miracle seat known as the bumbo, and happen to have the one child on earth who can escape this torture device. it's a good thing we have two?
i suppose as time goes on we will find things that work and things that don't...like the home-made "moby" wrap i decided to make out of a giant tye-dyed sheet. didn't work. i wouldn't even put the baby in it. but overall, we have fun learning, and i have had fun having my little girl to laugh at me when i screw up and when i don't. one smile from that pretty little face makes the failed attempts at working something completely diminish.
here's to innovation...to trailer park fixins...and to happy babies...
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