week 9

I am still having trouble catching him smiling but he is more likely to give me this "serious" look than big smiles when I have the camera out.

He concentrates so much when playing with his toys, like he's on a mission to be the world's best basher of soft toys hanging over your rocker, at next years baby Olympics. Monsterboy enjoys playing peek-a-boo with his little brother, but he doesn't quite get it just yet.

On the health front:
We have started offering him some thickening agent at the beginning of his breast feeds to try and  reduce the alarming amount of milk that is being vomited on a regular basis. Hopefully that will do the trick and help his weight gain. He weighted 9lbs 6oz at his  delayed 8 week MCHN appointment which means it's dropped him into the 5th percentile but he ticked all the other boxes. So it's not panic stations yet more a matter of seeing if we can get him to take a little more food.

We are also giving him 1ml of Mylanta if he has been vomiting heaps and is showing signs that the acid is annoying him. It seemed to really help him the other night, within minutes of giving the Mylanta, he stopped screaming and went straight to sleep, poor little fellow.

We have been out and about a lot but I keep forgetting to take my smaller camera, I am lugging too much baby stuff to take the SLR.
He went to Stitch'n'Bitch on Tuesday Night and was quite well behaved, even if I only got about 3 rows of rib done on these baby socks  using regia clown yarn.

Our cupboards were looking a little bare so Friday night we went to our fav vietnamese place for dinner then to the Collingwood farmers market this morning. Both outings he slept the entire time so they would have been boring baby sleeping shots anyway.

He is sleeping a lot better but still not back to those wonderful 7-8 hour stretches we were getting at night, but at least he's sleeping for 1-2 hours 2-3 times during the day, so he's not totally overwhelmed but mid-afternoon. Makes for a much happier theoreticgal, if  baby sleeps and isnt crying for hours on end every afternoon/evening. It is heart wrenching to have a screaming baby that isn't sick, he's just so overtired he doesn't know why he's crying.

I decided I wasn't going to be going out baby-less for a while so I really needed a nice mummy-bag, not just  a nappy bag but one that could do dual duty. I have almost lost my handbag twice lately as I am just not used to carrying around two bags. I ended up getting a nice storksak bag, apparently Angelina has the same one but carrying it around didnt turn me into a glamourmom.

 

A little crafting has been done but no finished objects to show as it's been just snippets that were totally unproductive. On the other hand, the spelt sourdough breadmaking has been successful so I'll show off the first edible loaf, ( there was one dud  before this but I followed a different recipe, so I am going to blame the recipe rather than my cooking skills)

It's made from a SanFransisco sourdough  starter I purchased online, of course. It took about 7 days to get the mother going well and then another 2 weeks of me fluffing around before I actually made my second loaf. Now we have the starter in the fridge and I just get it out as needed.  It is a real winner  especially for the wheat/bakers yeast intolerant gardenboy. I have another sponge developing today and I'll make up the dough tonight and we'll bake it in the morning.
It sounds like a very intensive process but it is not really, just a few minutes then leave it for 6-12 hours and then another few minutes etc then 2 days later you have the most scrummy bread, Worth every minute. Can't wait to try some fruit breads and bagels, but first I need to master the basic loaf.

Comments

[Sarah]

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