Baby diary: 63 weeks 6 days
Mar. 3rd, 2020 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petronia Alan is back home as of Sunday!
It's supposed to be the end of another transition period. Alan's changed in all kinds of ways I hadn't noticed in the past three weeks. He was really upset to see my parents leave on Sunday night, and threw a big tantrum. I had to put him back on the breast to get him to sleep (he didn't seem to care there was no milk). Even nap time the next day was hard. He insisted we go outside into the apartment stairwell, gave me my hat to put on, etc. He definitely has the mental concept of "going to grandma's house" now. I think he felt betrayed this morning when we left the house, only to be dropped off at daycare. ^^; There are three new babies so everyone is wailing again.
Sleep last night was a lot better, though. He drank a bottle of warm milk while desultorily playing, then I turned out the lights and ran the star field projector my sister gave him for Christmas while we cuddled on the sofa in his room for half an hour. He didn't really understand it in January, but now he's into that ~vibe~, lying there getting sleepy while practicing the "eency weency spider" hand gestures to himself.(He's not very good, but there's definitely a will to improve. XD) He still got upset at being put in his crib afterward, but he was so sleepy by then he only cried a minute before passing out.
Still on antibiotics, but appetite seems very good. Milk uptake is enormous, we might have to go back to milk bags in this family which we haven't bought for 20 years. Ate most of his Eggo this morning and even stole one of my breakfast taquitos (kind of miss food diaries... seems to be one of those American ready-made foods designed for children's hands and/or car meals). He points imperiously and hums at things he wants, I think I'm going to start modelling "please" (we already say "thank you"). Stands by himself occasionally, but needs support to get up and down and won't attempt to walk unaided. At least he'll walk holding my hands now. I even got him to practice on the stairwell, though he's very far from figuring out how to shift his weight properly when taking stairs. Can now put Mega blocks together and build towers. Very good at figuring out buttons and on/off switches, even on machines he hasn't seen before. Still thinks it's great fun to turn the kitchen faucet on, but turns it off as well (hallelujah). Very neat, having been raised by my mom and me I suppose: like most children at this age he has a keen eye for crumbs, but instead of eating them he gets my attention and insists I clean them up. Much more interested in books, but still only as physical entities he can manipulate - flip pages, lift flaps, stick his hand through holes, stack them this way and that. I think he understands the part in The Very Hungry Caterpillar about counting fruit - they are, after all, drawings of fruits he's very familiar with - but it may be wishful thinking. XD;
Points to his diaper area when he's about to poop (to pee?) I wonder when I should start potty... certainly daycare won't start with it until he graduates to the big class. It would involve getting up earlier, usually he poos in the morning in the 2-3 minutes between when he wakes up and I go into his room. And not to put a fine point on it, but what wakes him up is usually me flushing.
It's supposed to be the end of another transition period. Alan's changed in all kinds of ways I hadn't noticed in the past three weeks. He was really upset to see my parents leave on Sunday night, and threw a big tantrum. I had to put him back on the breast to get him to sleep (he didn't seem to care there was no milk). Even nap time the next day was hard. He insisted we go outside into the apartment stairwell, gave me my hat to put on, etc. He definitely has the mental concept of "going to grandma's house" now. I think he felt betrayed this morning when we left the house, only to be dropped off at daycare. ^^; There are three new babies so everyone is wailing again.
Sleep last night was a lot better, though. He drank a bottle of warm milk while desultorily playing, then I turned out the lights and ran the star field projector my sister gave him for Christmas while we cuddled on the sofa in his room for half an hour. He didn't really understand it in January, but now he's into that ~vibe~, lying there getting sleepy while practicing the "eency weency spider" hand gestures to himself.(He's not very good, but there's definitely a will to improve. XD) He still got upset at being put in his crib afterward, but he was so sleepy by then he only cried a minute before passing out.
Still on antibiotics, but appetite seems very good. Milk uptake is enormous, we might have to go back to milk bags in this family which we haven't bought for 20 years. Ate most of his Eggo this morning and even stole one of my breakfast taquitos (kind of miss food diaries... seems to be one of those American ready-made foods designed for children's hands and/or car meals). He points imperiously and hums at things he wants, I think I'm going to start modelling "please" (we already say "thank you"). Stands by himself occasionally, but needs support to get up and down and won't attempt to walk unaided. At least he'll walk holding my hands now. I even got him to practice on the stairwell, though he's very far from figuring out how to shift his weight properly when taking stairs. Can now put Mega blocks together and build towers. Very good at figuring out buttons and on/off switches, even on machines he hasn't seen before. Still thinks it's great fun to turn the kitchen faucet on, but turns it off as well (hallelujah). Very neat, having been raised by my mom and me I suppose: like most children at this age he has a keen eye for crumbs, but instead of eating them he gets my attention and insists I clean them up. Much more interested in books, but still only as physical entities he can manipulate - flip pages, lift flaps, stick his hand through holes, stack them this way and that. I think he understands the part in The Very Hungry Caterpillar about counting fruit - they are, after all, drawings of fruits he's very familiar with - but it may be wishful thinking. XD;
Points to his diaper area when he's about to poop (to pee?) I wonder when I should start potty... certainly daycare won't start with it until he graduates to the big class. It would involve getting up earlier, usually he poos in the morning in the 2-3 minutes between when he wakes up and I go into his room. And not to put a fine point on it, but what wakes him up is usually me flushing.
