Listening to Den talking to Katherine is absolutely hysterical. “This little piggy was at home. This little piggy was… well, we don’t know where that piggy was. This little piggy has a personality disorder. And I’m not making aaannnyyyy sense, but I’m talking to a baby here, so who cares.”<\/p>\n
He’s trying to occupy her in that horrible half an hour before she finally falls asleep for bed. She’s tired, but not falling asleep, she’s whining. “Waaahhh. Waaahhhhh. Ah! Ah!” Which is made even funnier by the fact that in between her little whines she’s smiling at him, then makes a sad face, then dissolves again. Poor little punkin is tired!<\/p>\n
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I took Kate in the bath for some tubby time today, I needed to get her washed up. I try to do her bath in the afternoon when she’s awake and not too fussy. So we hopped in, I swooshed her around and cooed at her a little. I soap her up and rinse her off quickly, and I try to make it sound and feel fun, like a massage. I get that done first so that if she starts getting fed up during playtime I can make a quick exit – I’ve learned with her not to push her once she’s reached her limit. Once she’s clean I just hold her in the water and let her experience it. Previously she just floated (with my help, of course), smiled at me and looked around. Today she wanted to “sit” between my legs, with one of my hands supporting her under her bum, my other hand around her chest so she couldn’t flop forward. She leaned back against my chest and let her legs float up to the surface. I watched her as she moved her feet around, feeling the water. She seemed mesmerized. Then she gave a big heave and kicked out hard. SPLASH! went her legs. Oh did she get excited! She kept doing it over and over, freezing and staring after each one. She stayed in the water longer than ever before – which was probably only about 10 minutes or so, but that’s at the edge of her attention span for one single activity. I really need to get some pictures and video of her in the tub, but I guess that would mean I’d have to wear a bathing suit!<\/p>\n
Speaking of bathing suits, I wanted to buy one for Kate but I’m not sure it’s worth it for August. And I don’t even know what size to buy – she has a small bum! But I’m itching to take her in a pool and see how she does. (We know someone with a heated salt water pool. It’s lovely!!) I plan to start swim lessons with her at the Y, they start at 6 months old so that would mean Dec\/Jan would be when she’d start, and I’m not sure she’ll be the same size then as she is now.<\/p>\n
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Also on the topic of shopping, I am having a diaper bag crisis. I had purchased the JuJuBe BeTween. When I got it I had some doubts about the size but tried using it anyways. I loved so much about it, especially the bungee keychain. I love the fabric inside, I love the pockets, I love the mommy pocket. But it was quickly clear that I am an overpacker and it is just too small for anything but quick trips – and with a newborn there’s no such thing as a quick trip. The cloth diapers take up a lot more room than disposables do, plus I like to carry my nursing cover and mai tei carrier with me. I was carrying those items separately, then realized what an idiotic idea it was for me to carry two<\/em> bags with me everywhere.<\/p>\n I decided I’d try to sell that lovely bag, seeing how it’s barely been used. Then that same day I found a big stain on the front. WTF, how the hell did that happen? Selling or keeping, I am pissed! And it won’t come off! I have absolutely no idea what it’s from. So now I can’t sell it, which means I can’t buy a replacement. So I have a $100 bag sitting in the corner of the room, unused, and I’m using an ugly black backpack. I do not like the backpack. It’s just this big black cavern inside, I’m always fishing around in it. I also can’t use the zippers one-handed, which is a huge problem. I’ve decided what I need size-wise is a big tote, like the BeSpicy. Pockets inside, bright pretty colors, zippered top (but you don’t have to zipper it to keep everything in), and plenty big. But of course I can’t afford another expensive diaper bag. Pissy. If anyone has any ideas for a less-expensive alternative, I’m all ears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Listening to Den talking to Katherine is absolutely hysterical. “This little piggy was at home. This little piggy was… well, we don’t know where that piggy was. This little piggy has a personality disorder. And I’m not making aaannnyyyy sense, but I’m talking to a baby here, so who cares.” He’s trying to occupy her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3086,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083\/revisions\/3086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}