Reid’s thoughts on sleeping
For a long time now, we’ve wrapped Reid up at naptime and at night in The Miracle Blanket©, which I lovingly call the `Baby Straight Jacket`. We bought this thing when Graham had such bad colic and acid reflux; it helped calm him and keep him snuggly at night. Anyway, it has helped Reid too for a long time.
The problem is, he’s getting too big for it, now that he’s 6 months old. According to our pediatrician, he’s old enough now to put himself to sleep and stay asleep at night. So we began Ferberizing him help him adjust to sleeping on his own. It ain’t going so well. The first night, little guy screamed and cried for more than 4 hours. We’re on night 3 now, and he’s getting progressively better (thank goodness).
Reid let us know how he feels about the process just today, on the way home from lunch!
We’ll keep trying.
Filed under Baby, Reid, Funny, Photos | Comment (1)Thanks a lot, Cojo
Last Friday, Kristi took a shower but didn’t fully dry her hair. She was hurrying to get Graham deposited at school. When she came out to the living room where the boys and I were playing, Graham said:
`Mommy, what happened to your hair?`
Nice. If you didn’t get the Cojo reference, read this.
Filed under Famous Graham Quotes, Funny | Comment (0)The kookiest book I’ve ever heard of…
While reading up on some exercise and biking information, I came across an offbeat book review for Dancing with Cats. Yes, this is a real book and not a spoof of some kind. I had to read it twice to make sure my brain was giving me correct information.
The reviewer sums it up nicely:
I’m struggling to find the words. Groping and bumping my head against a thousand walls. How, exactly, can I relay just how disturbing Dancing with Cats truly is? For instance, I was planning to use that as my first sentence: Dancing with Cats is truly the most disturbing book I’ve laid eyes on….but nah, still doesn’t convey it.
The kookiness of this book is eclipsed only by the accompanying pictures. Just check out the review to see what I mean. It’s weird.
Filed under Funny, Weird | Comment (0)Rudetooth
I normally write about family related stuff here, but today I landed on a funny editorial harping on people who wear those Bluetooth earpieces for their mobile phones all the time. Basically, the article describes how uncool and uber-annoying those things are to everyone. I won’t even bother paraphrasing this guy, but the salient points are:
- Wearing the earpiece in public makes you look like a crazy person
- You are not important
- You do not look cool
Read the whole article (two pages) for some laughs.
Filed under Funny, Rant | Comment (0)Surgery successful!
Graham’s surgery was yesterday; he had his adenoids removed, new ear tubes put in, and a skin allergy test done. We were supposed to be at the hospital at 8:15am for the 10:15am procedure. The surgeons experienced some difficulty with their first patient of the day (thankfully no life-threatening complications or anything), so Graham’s procedure was delayed almost an hour and a half. He was a very good boy and cute while were waiting.
About 10 minutes before they took him into the OR, the nurse gave Graham some medicine meant to relax him in order to reduce the anxiety that inevitably children feel. It was mostly taking effect when they wheeled him away, but Kristi and I will never forget the sad look bordering betrayal on his face, and the tears starting to form as we said goodbye to him. We were crushed!
In any case, the actual procedure took only 35 minutes and everything went well. We talked to the doctor and were shortly summoned to recovery to be with him as he came out of the anesthesia. Now, Graham doesn’t wake up well even from naps on a normal day, so (as we expected) he was really foul when he realized he was in the hospital and he had a pulse oxygen meter on his finger and an IV in his hand. Yeah, not happy about that.
So it took him awhile to calm down, but then he finally ate 3 popsicles (2 red, 1 green) and could be discharged. We had explained to Graham that he’d be going to sleep so the doctor could check his ears. No need in telling him all about exactly what would happen. We were sitting in his recovery room, rocking in a chair and he said, `Daddy! The doctor forgot to check my ears!` So thankfully, he didn’t remember anything at all.
As we snuggled and walked out of the hospital toward our car, he said `thanks for taking me to the hospital, Daddy…` So we’re back to normal. :-)
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