How Things Are Going
It’s less stressful this time. You don’t totally freak out when you can’t figure out why the kid is crying. It’s not necessarily easier though. Well I guess it is in general b/c you’re more equipped for whatever. But it has it’s own new challenges, such as how to entertain Raimi and distract him from the fact that he’s not getting enough time with mommy.
Raimi’s doing awesome. When we were in the hospital Kinnell started crying and Raimi totally on his own pulled out a lamb doll that lights up and plays a lullaby and he brought it over to Kinnell and played it for him. And it calmed him down! also I was expecting him to regress a lot with his potty training, but I think the opposite happened. well, except for him peeing on the floor yesterday, but we all have our moments.
Rosalie is doing such an amazing job. she absolutely rules.
we’re basically all just tired all the time, but other than that it’s totally fine.
the first song I sang to Kinnell, which Ro was still in surgery and he and I were sitting in a rocking chair in the NICU, was boys you won’t. no there was no particular plan or reasoning behing this, it was just what was in my head at the time.
I got pooped on yesterday, which never happened with Raimi. So that was interesting. When I say “I got pooped on,” you probably get a clearer picture if you have some concept of what newborn breast-fed baby poop is like. I guess just email me if you want the play by play. but if you ever wondered how i would react to getting pooped on, and i certainly have wondered that about all of you, then the answer is i scream like a little girl, then sort of freeze while I figure out what to do next and make sure it’s stopped, and then I clean in no particular order: the baby, the changing mat, my hand, my pants, the rug, my jeans, the bed spread, the pillow case. and keep in mind, on those last two items, that I was changing the baby on the floor, but the bed spread and pillow case were on the bed. are you getting the picture i’m sending you?