Brooklynn is ready. (Ok, really, Brooklynn is still sleeping. Like I said yesterday, she really doesn’t do much to help out around the house.)
I don’t know that we’re ready either, but ready or not, here we go.
And we’re really hoping for no snow. We’ve had enough of that already this year, thank you very much.
For as much as Rhiannon and I have traveled since we’ve been married and as much as our travels have often involved leaving at unholy hours of the morning, you’d think that we would learn to not pack so late into the night beforehand. Especially with a baby, right? I mean, no one would leave everything until the last minute when a baby is involved, because that’s just asking for trouble.
Apparently, we not only like to have trouble over for dinner, we hand it the keys to the house as well. Hey, we might just make it to bed before midnight if we’re lucky.
I expect to hear Brooklynn waking up in about three hours. Why didn’t she help? I was always under the impression that kids were supposed to do chores to pitch in.
With some of the traveling we’ll be doing over the next few weeks, Rhiannon and I decided that if we were going to get lights on our house, we better do it before the Christmas season is over. That, and the fact that last year we waited until December to get any lights and the selection was pretty picked over. We have LED light strands that allow up to 85 of them to be daisy-chained up to one outlet and they pay for the additional cost in a little over one holiday season.
Last year, once we did get the lights, it was easy to put them up. I don’t think we got any real amount of snow worth talking about until sometime in February. Not so this year. It isn’t Thanksgiving yet and we just had our second decent snowfall of the season.
One of the lighting decisions we had to make was if we wanted icicle lights for the house or just regular strands. Added cost and the hassle of putting up over 100 feet of lights made the decision pretty easy. Besides, who needs to buy icicle lights when mother nature will do most of the work for you?
Tonight, Brooklynn got cereal for the first time. We stirred it up with some water and mixed it in some prunes. I always thought that we would wait as long as possible to feed her “food” rather than only formula, just to make sure she’s ready. I’d say that readiness has come sooner than I anticipated.
If you’ve done any reading on babies and solid food recently, there is debate on when they might be ready and how to tell by seeing if they push food out of their mouth with their tongue. Brooklynn has no such issues. In fact, we have to be careful that she doesn’t choke on the spoon as she lunges toward it with her mouth wide open.
She had seconds and probably would have had a thirds helping if we would have let her. And then finished off her regular bottle as well. Did I mention that she’s around 17 pounds and we can no longer see her neck without digging through her chins first? We’re just hoping this is enough food to hold her through the night. Cross your fingers for us.
A lot of times you hear about a baby or small child doing something for the first time – taking steps, saying words, rolling over, etc. And then you hear how they will do it over and over but never in front of a camera. Lucky for us, Brooklynn didn’t notice I was filming her.
Below – the first time she ever rolled over. Considering she already doesn’t like to lay on her stomach, this should be interesting to watch as she gets older.
First Roll Over from Chris&Rhiannon on Vimeo.
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