Beets!

Chance seems to (??) like beets. I found beets harder to cook than most veggies and eventually got frustrated, dumped them into the processor and wizzed the poop out of them. I read on the web that you should boil them to get out the nitrates....they seemed to lose a lot of their colour, but then I needed to add a lot of cooking water to thin them out, so the colour, as you can see, was quite vibrant.

Chance wore an old stained sleeper for the occasion, "just in case".

Biter!

Nursing Chance has become increasingly complicated over the last week or so. He seems to need to bite first, then drink. So...nursing goes something like this:

Bite. Pull off baby. Stern look in eye. "No". Baby looks scared. Relatch. Bite. Pull off baby. Stern look in eye. "NO!". Baby looks scared. Relatch. Bite. Pull off baby. Stern look in eye. "NO!". Baby looks scared. Relatch.

Last night Cameron leaned over and bit me on the shoulder when we were watching TV. It has always been a kind of "I love you" thing. Until now. I lost it.

So, my little Biter Baby had prunes this morning, they made him pucker a bit, but he opened up wide for more once he gummed for a while. I got a big ol' NO on papaya again. I don't blame him, I think it smells like diaper.

After breakfast, Chance waded around in his toys for a while and then took the grand tour of the kitchen. He can really move now. Scarlet is not impressed with his ability to close the gap and get ahold of her precious tail/whiskers/ears. She is taking it well, despite the abuse, and even puts up with a bit of it before taking off. I think she knows it thrills Chance.

Tonight Cam and I are going out for dinner. We have a baby sitter. I'm calling it a milestone for us.

Coffee...coffee....coffee....

...and you say to your friends: "Let's do this!"

OK, that's an obscure geology-school reference, but the idea here is - I'm taking the plunge. I'm going to at least to try to use the cloth diapers I bought for Chance. Really, really try. He's in one right now. Now that he's bigger the disparity between the diapers and his clothes is not so great, so I can't use my old excuse of "his clothes won't fit".

So, I am going to aim for most of his diapers being cloth. Night time diapers will still be disposable Pampers. I'm also going to install a clothesline in the yard, so I can dry his diapers outside. Screw the supposed city bylaw. Drying your clothes out of doors is a great way to save energy. Stick that in your Kyoto pipe and smoke it.

6 month weight and length

Fever

11:00 PM. Mmmff. What do you mean the baby's crying? Wha..?
11:20 PM. Baby you were almost asleep, now you're really crying! OKOK I'm coming. OK. Oh my God you're burning up I'm so sorry SORRY SORRY!
11:21 PM. Baby Tylenol.
11:25 PM. Baby Tylenol vomit.
11:33 PM. Hellonursemy6montholdhasafeverandhehadhisshotstoday. Huh? Oh. Um. No rash. No. He vomited the tylenol up. Give him more? Hold him upright?
11:45 PM. Shhhh honey. Shhh....I'm sorry I did this to you, it is for your own good though.
12:20 AM. OK, you'll nurse now. OK. This I can do.
1:00 AM. Sleep now, Chancey. I love you. Love you love you love you.
3:30 AM. Hungry again. You're warm but not too warm. You nurse, you go back to sleep. I can't wait until the morning. You'll be better in the morning.

6 month Immunizations

3 needles later and Chance took it like a pro. He is a bit irritable now, very sloooow too, so we are going for a walk in the Chariot. The harness will keep him from moving too much and it is time for him to sleep anyways.

Weight was good at 16 lbs 7 oz, and he has grown only 1/2 an inch, but still 27" is quite tall for a baby who was 20.5" only 6 months ago. As you can see in this Calvin Klein-esque photo, Chance is really starting to fill out, but he still has that lean look. Must come from his Daddy.

His nap this morning was one of his longest, an hour and a half. I read the whole time that he was asleep. I am reading a book called Inconsolable: How I Threw My Mental Health Out With the Diapers by Marrit Ingman. It is great so far.

Today I mailed my application to APEGGA to register as a Professional Geologist. Hopefully they take my money and say OK, otherwise I will have to wait until October to work a few more months and try again. I don't think changing diapers counts as developing my professional skills.