This diaper of the month is brought to you by Gerber Single Grain Cereal, Rice, and Oatmeal. When she was just on rice cereal her poop wasn’t too awful, but when you add a spoonful of oatmeal to the mix we get some pretty unholy crap! I used to be able to clean her up with a couple of wipes – not so much anymore. It’s like creamy peanut butter on the roof of your mouth. MMmmm don’t you want a PB&J now? This picture of poopy Play-Doh was snapped with the not-a-nanny’s Cannon digital SLR on the 29th of March, so this seventh month diaper is in super high resolution just for you!
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Wordless Wednesday: Sneeze
Up North to Alaska
March 7th Sophia went on her first plane ride ever. We went up to Alaska to see her great-grandma and all of her second cousins on my dad’s side of the family. I was worried that Sophia would have my ear problem and air travel would be a nightmare. I don’t travel well. It doesn’t take much for me to feel extreme ear pain as the plane descends. Sophia was fantastic! And no Tylenol or Baby Benadryl required. I just tried to time her feedings for when the plane was changing elevation and let the swallowing action help keep her ears regulated. We landed in Alaska a passenger about two rows back said to us, “Well at least she’s a good traveler.” On the way back home, a woman in front of us turned around to get her bag from the overhead at the end of the flight and said, “Oh-my-gosh I didn’t even know there was a baby behind us!”
While in Alaska Sophia got to meet two of her great-aunts (my dad’s sister and one of my mother’s sisters), her only great-grandma and all six of her second cousins on my father’s side. We weren’t there for very long but we did get to venture just south of Anchorage to where Portage Glacier *used* to be (I can remember as a child when we would make a pit stop at the visitor’s center on the way up to Anchorage and I would climb around on the glacier. Now you can’t even see the glacier from the visitor’s center. You have to take a boat to see it. – No such thing as global warming my f*&@#^& ass!). We went to an area that for as long as I can remember was nothing but a dead forest (earthquake damage from 1964) that has now been turned into a Big Game Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. The bears were out because Alaska had been having some unusually warm weather. We had grandma’s dog in the car with us as we drove through and every time she barked at the bears, Sophia burst into uncontrollable giggles. I got some of it on video. It was absolutely hilarious! The file is just too big for me to post. I’ll have to edit it or something.
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Favorings
Yes, I’m a horrible speller. But no, the title is not a typo. This is a list of things that Sophia favors, some of which may be flavors.
- Sophia’s favorite toy is her blue Peep. Not that I’ve bought any super expensive toys for her, but Peep is the cardboard box of toys. Our not-a-nanny bought it for Sophia on sale after Easter for a whopping $1.50 (or 1.51 CAD or .75 GBP). According to not-a-nanny, Sophia picked out Peep.
- Sophia seems to like blue over other colors.
- Despite what the picture below shows, Sophia tends to use her left hand more than her right. (My girl might be a southpaw just like mommy.
) - My darling baby girl is more likely to eat Peep than actual baby food.
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Breaking free of the baby cage
On Thursday I received an email from our not-a-nanny (I don’t care what she thinks – I like her not-a-title 
). Actually, she sends me at least one email everyday with a picture attached. She’s awesome! I put the picture of the day on my work desktop. On this particular day the title of her email to me read, “A day for firsts…” I was excited and disappointed at the same time. I would like to be there for all the milestones, but having someone at home that sends me email updates with the important stuff is a good alternative. My not-a-nanny is awesome. I don’t think I’ve told her so, but she is. In the body of the email, she sent me read,
Your daughter was up to no good today. I watched to see if she would do it, and she did… take a look at the picture. She’s in the not-a-walker now. If it’s okay with you, I’d like to remove the top part of the Pack & Play and make it a playpen. But she obviously can’t be trusted in the bassinet now. (On another level, I’m very impressed… she used her arms to pull herself up!)
You can’t tell from this picture, but Sophia isn’t standing. She did pull herself up to a kneeling position though.
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Water Baby and Dad
Wednesday was Sophia’s second day of swimming. It didn’t go as swimmingly. Kurt and I had decided that because swimming was twice a week I would swim with her on Mondays and he would do Wednesday’s. I think we may reconsider that until after Sophia gets more accustomed to the water.
Poor baby cried and snotted all over herself. Actually I feel worse for Kurtie cause I think he was really looking forward to having a daddy-daughter activity. She did calm down when he did the Superman theme song and flew her around the water.
As soon as he finished the song it was back to the red-faced crying and snotting baby. Kurt even tried the M*A*S*H theme and it was a no go. We pulled her out of the water and let her calm down a bit.
When the class moved on from the shallow end of the big pool to the 1-foot deep baby pool on the side I told Kurt to give it another shot. She was NOT a happy baby!
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M*A*S*H the baby
I’ve mentioned before that we watch four episodes of M*A*S*H every night. The shows start at 5pm when I get home from work and end at Sophia’s bedtime. Every night when it starts we say, “ah it’s time to M*A*S*H the baby”. We’ve noticed that when Sophia is upset to the the point of turning crimson that listening to the theme song will soothe her. She actually stops crying and will move herself to a position so she can see the TV. Our not-a-nanny has a button on her FireFox quick launch bar to a YouTube video of M*A*S*H. Please don’t anyone tell Sophia that the title of her favorite song is, “Suicide Is Painless”. ACK!
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Water Baby
Yesterday was Sophia’s first swimming class. We were afraid she would scream and cry through the whole thing especially since she didn’t take her afternoon nap, but she LOVED IT! I mean she really LOVED it – A LOT! There was one part in the middle of the class where we sat the kids on the side of the pool and sang/uttered/or in my case mumbled Humpty Dumpty, then the kids would “jump” to their parent in the water. There were only two other kids (toddlers) our group and Sophia was the only infant. Sophia sat on the side with me holding her in place. Her chin was quivering because of the seemingly cold air on her wet skin, but she laughed the whole time! They did that three times and then we had them stand on the side while we sang/uttered/mumbled London Bridges Falling Down. On cue, they would jump in. I of course held Sophia in position, I lifted her up and into the water, but on the third “London Bridges” she pushed with her legs trying to jump in.
That first part with in the four-foot area of the big pool, but after that we went to the small side pool that was much warmer and only one-foot deep. The instructor dumped out a basket of bath toys and had the kids put them back in the basket. Sophia caught onto this pretty quick and actually put the one toy that came to her into the basket again.
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Tulip Festival
We went to the Tulip Festival today. It was cold, but at least it wasn’t raining. The tulips are blooming late this year because of our funky weather so I may take Sophia up again in a couple weeks. Hopefully it’ll be warmer!
While we walked around the tulips fields, we saw a couple with a one-month-old baby that made us cringe. We kept our baby bundled in a jacket and two blankets – they didn’t. Uugg!
And then there was the mother telling her three-year-old not to muck around in the mud because he was wearing his new shoes. Why the hell would you bring a child through fields of mud in new shoes if you want them to stay clean?