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| Bluet asleep in own bed. Note thumb in mouth and essential rabbit |
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| A good night's sleep restores energy |
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| How could a baby that looks like this be any trouble? |
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| Take me home. now. |
Showing posts with label Auntie Linda's Rabbit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Auntie Linda's Rabbit. Show all posts
Saturday, 12 November 2011
An Experiment
Tonight we try an experiment. Usually Bluet eats around 18:30, has a bath (a description of which may be posted when we get our 5,000 visitor), listens to a story (perhaps 'that's not my tractor' - the attention span is too short for Dr Seuss). Then by 19:00 she is fast asleep in bed.
Tonight we are going to go to a birthday party for a friend of mine at work, starting at 19:00. Our plan, such as it is, is to head down there a little early, and let Bluet go to sleep in their bedroom. Then, once we are ready to leave the party, we will try and not wake her whilst walking across the city to the uptown bus. This will fail, but hopefully she won't scream all the way home, disturbing the revellers returning from their nights out. One hope is that this interruption to her sleep will help her adjust to the loss of daylight savings time (American 'British Summer Time'), and thus she will no longer be waking up at 5.30 in the morning. A second hope is that it works brilliantly and we can employ this tactic for future parties.
Friday, 5 August 2011
3,000 Hits, and, Grabbing Stuff
Ah, I see we have reached 3,000 hits, and I may have (rashly) promised some pictures from a recently discovered treasure trove. Well, they are coming, hopefully over the weekend, when Bluet is asleep.
In the meantime, some development updates.
This week, the laughing has continued (although we keep needing new jokes; now, a fake laugh or some heavy breathing makes her laugh). Also (top tip) blowing raspberries on her tummy is hilarious for both Dad and baby. Talking of tummies, it seems all the food she has been consuming the last few weeks is being converted to making her long rather than wide, which is a relief to everyone.
She has started to grab stuff - e.g. the ear of Uncle Nick's Tiger, Great Auntie Linda's rabbit (pictured below), clothes (in the video below), a plastic ball frame thing (you'll understand once you see a pic), hair and most excitingly of all, the plastic packet her baby wipes come in - it makes a great noise - you may have heard her kicking it in some previous vids. I figure we can save a lot of money on toys if she will play with her baby supplies.
She is still not ticklish. This is fascinating to me. After all, if at some stage in life we are immune to being tickled (and believe me, I've tried the soles of the feet, the armpits etc etc - maybe I need to buy a tickling stick?), then why on earth would you develop ticklishness? Seems ridiculous.
She also likes to wrap herself entirely in her knitted blanket (below). Now, my brother (I won't tell you which one to preserve his dignity) had a blanket he acquired whilst we lived in Denver. He named that blanket 'Raa' and kept it for many years until it fell apart. She loves her blanket. Could history repeat? Will she still have her blanket in 20 years time? Only time will tell.
She sucks her left thumb (although often she actually sucks her whole hand, which is less satisfying). Does this mean she is left handed? I hope not as we have only right handed scissors.
In the meantime, some development updates.
This week, the laughing has continued (although we keep needing new jokes; now, a fake laugh or some heavy breathing makes her laugh). Also (top tip) blowing raspberries on her tummy is hilarious for both Dad and baby. Talking of tummies, it seems all the food she has been consuming the last few weeks is being converted to making her long rather than wide, which is a relief to everyone.
She has started to grab stuff - e.g. the ear of Uncle Nick's Tiger, Great Auntie Linda's rabbit (pictured below), clothes (in the video below), a plastic ball frame thing (you'll understand once you see a pic), hair and most excitingly of all, the plastic packet her baby wipes come in - it makes a great noise - you may have heard her kicking it in some previous vids. I figure we can save a lot of money on toys if she will play with her baby supplies.
She is still not ticklish. This is fascinating to me. After all, if at some stage in life we are immune to being tickled (and believe me, I've tried the soles of the feet, the armpits etc etc - maybe I need to buy a tickling stick?), then why on earth would you develop ticklishness? Seems ridiculous.
She also likes to wrap herself entirely in her knitted blanket (below). Now, my brother (I won't tell you which one to preserve his dignity) had a blanket he acquired whilst we lived in Denver. He named that blanket 'Raa' and kept it for many years until it fell apart. She loves her blanket. Could history repeat? Will she still have her blanket in 20 years time? Only time will tell.
She sucks her left thumb (although often she actually sucks her whole hand, which is less satisfying). Does this mean she is left handed? I hope not as we have only right handed scissors.
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