July, 2006

Do you ever have moments where it occurs to you that you are becoming remarkably self-centered, if not in your actions, but in your thoughts? Sure ~ as human beings we are naturally self-centered, and our natural instinct, unless deliberately curbed, is to focus on self-preservation.   That doesn't mean that we are purposefully not caring for others, it's just the natural state.   Unless we deliberately ~ that is,…

Kenny is taking a nap.   Imagine a big smile on my face and a big sigh of relief.   We couldn't get him down this morning, but after some hard playtime and a big lunch, he's in happy baby dream land.   I have to confess that this week, I have really let the whole nap / no nap issue get to me.   Up until now, I have…

Thank you to all who have written encouraging notes and bits of advice for me and my continuing adventures with No Nap Joe.   A special thanks to Karen for her book recommendation.   The earlier bedtimes are definitely making a difference, though naptimes, no matter what time, are still a matter of a challenge. It occured to me today (though not for the first time), that Kenny might very…

Back in the days of my wild youth... I got a tattoo.   I was 22, sitting in the lawn of my sister's college campus, playing bongo drums and sipping an early afternoon beer, and it just sounded like  a good idea at the time.   I was working full time as an actress, and I was going through a little bit of an edgy phase.   So my sis…

So I let the poor little guy cry for the one hour limit. Never again. Neither of us really  recovered from it the rest of the day. But he went down like an angel at bedtime. I had never known that love this strong could feel so tangible.   My very fingers tingle when I think of the little guy and how fiercely my heart beats for him.   Isn't…

Kenny is screaming.   Screaming alternately with babbling things that are starting to sound vaguely like "Mommy, I thought you loved me come get me out of this crib now my heart is breaking!!!!" So this sleep-solutions book, which is expertly written and sounds brilliant and coherant when you are reading it, says not to let them cry more than 1 hour at naptime.   If they last an hour…

My sweet little No Nap Joe is going to start napping.   He is going  to start going to bed at a real bedime.   The little bluish circles under his big brown eyes are going to disappear. From the outside looking in, Kenny really is the happiest baby you would ever see.   At the grocery store today, he sat in the cart like a minature politician, waving wildly…

Kenny is quite a looker.   I know that I am biased towards his good looks, being his Mommy, but every time I take him out anywhere, I am constantly stopped by someone who tells me that he is a really handsome kid. Yesterday I was at Nordstroms, turning in a pair of shoes for repair (ok - I need to buy Dudley more chew toys), and the three women…

I'm sorry to have been away from writing for a few days.   Our computer died along with several thousand (no exaggeration) pictures of Kenny from the last 10 months that haven't gotten printed yet.   My sweet resourceful hubby is spending a small fortune to recover them, so we can prove later on to our little boy that he did in fact grow up with us, in case he…

I've avoided this topic long enough, and I've been itching to write about it.   Let me preface by saying that I am a definite proponant of breastfeeding, and I am so grateful that my baby took to it so well.   That said, I  cannot resist venting, in a loving way of course, about Kenny's new feeding methods. "Easily distracted" is an understatement.   Oh he's not distracted with…