* I really shouldn't limit my advice asking to moms as I have had two extremely good dads answer my teething questions as well as the fact that Mr. Goat is a great SAHD himself at the moment. Sorry fellas!
* If you have a second go to vote for my old youth group in the ELCA video contest. They can win some money for their programs. Their video is about the 30 hour famine a tradition that started at St. Paul's way back when I was in the youth group there (which is suddenly a LONG time ago). Go watch their video here. Then just register (only a name and email is required) and rate the video. The higher the rating the better a chance they have to win! Thanks!
* Speaking of voting there are only 9 days left to vote for my friend Missy and her blog (The Marketing Mama) as Nickelodeon's Best Local Blog. You can vote once a day so help Missy keep her lead and win! Vote here!
* Happy Blog-iversary to me. I missed the actual date but I remember starting this litte blog 4 years ago right around the 4th of July (technically it was June 30th). It has been a wonderful project, connection and hobby for the last4 years and I hope it continues to be a place for me to write and for people to keep up with the Goat family. I'm considering how to revamp my design and goals for it now that baby goat is in the world but for now it remains my little space in the world to share me and I like that.
* Also coming up soon is my 500th blog post. And my first contest. So watch for those in the future! Yay!
* And finally, given that I love comments on my blog I am setting a personal goal to comment on every blog post I read this week. It always feels wonderful to know that people are reading out there so I'm going to share the wealth with the many great blogs I read each day. If you'd like to do this with me please join me! And leave a comment - it is nice to know you aren't just talking to yourself out here!
Monday, July 06, 2009
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Calling all moms!
So, teething. It sucks right? Because I think we are entering that oh-so special time in baby goat's life. I'm a bit surprised because while he is 4 months old he is still shy of 3 months for his adjusted age. Nevertheless we have drooling and crabbiness and swollen gums and general gnawing on his pacifier. So enlighten me blogland...what can I do? What helped your kid? Did you kid get fevers or any weird symptoms? What details of this baby trauma can you share with me to help educate me (terrify me?) about this phenomenon.
Also, as an aside note - can babies be snuffly and have a runny nose without being sick? Especially if it seems to come and go almost randomly?
Thanks in advance! I hope you had a great weekend - now it is time to get baby goat down and hopefully dream about waking up tomorrow with him having a full set of teeth without any fuss.
Also, as an aside note - can babies be snuffly and have a runny nose without being sick? Especially if it seems to come and go almost randomly?
Thanks in advance! I hope you had a great weekend - now it is time to get baby goat down and hopefully dream about waking up tomorrow with him having a full set of teeth without any fuss.
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Thanks Grandpa!
Thanks Grandpa for getting us signed up for Packer Season tickets. How long do you think it will get through 80,895 others before it is our turn!
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Eat, Scream, Sleep, Repeat
Baby goat is a bit under the weather right now. It all started (I think) with a well baby check up yesterday. It was his 4 month one and it went well. He seems to be thriving. He's 13 lbs 9 oz now (25th percentile) and 29 inches long (also 25th percentile) though his head is a whopping 16.75 inches (50th percentile). Naturally we think it is too hold that genius brain of his but that might just be the mom in me talking! :)
What is particularly nice is that he's getting up the charts. When baby goat was discharged from the hospital he was at about 3% on the scale so this is a big growth. Even the doctor is impressed with his growth - though we are continuing his fortifiers for a while though I don't think he's going to have much trouble getting up that scale. (From someone who's always been overweight cheering for weight gain still seems weird but it is for him and not me I guess).
But the checkup meant vaccines and while we've had good luck with them so far this set was a bear. He did fine mostly yesterday but today he's been running a low fever and just cranky and upset. I wish I could help more than we can. It is hard not to worry that it is more than the vaccines and hard to see him feeling ill for the first time. I took today off to help him but I'm not sure I've done much help. Still I hope we get a good nights sleep tonight...we've been in comfort mode since 6am this morning.
I hope he's feeling better tomorrow. Poor Baby Goat. :(
What is particularly nice is that he's getting up the charts. When baby goat was discharged from the hospital he was at about 3% on the scale so this is a big growth. Even the doctor is impressed with his growth - though we are continuing his fortifiers for a while though I don't think he's going to have much trouble getting up that scale. (From someone who's always been overweight cheering for weight gain still seems weird but it is for him and not me I guess).
But the checkup meant vaccines and while we've had good luck with them so far this set was a bear. He did fine mostly yesterday but today he's been running a low fever and just cranky and upset. I wish I could help more than we can. It is hard not to worry that it is more than the vaccines and hard to see him feeling ill for the first time. I took today off to help him but I'm not sure I've done much help. Still I hope we get a good nights sleep tonight...we've been in comfort mode since 6am this morning.
I hope he's feeling better tomorrow. Poor Baby Goat. :(
Monday, June 29, 2009
A Great time was had by all.
What a great weekend so far! We've been crashing at the grandparents in WI for some family fun. We've been to a baby shower (not our own but for our soon to be little friend Kena!) and baby goat got to meet a lot of mommy's friends. They were all quite impressed by his cuteness!
We also hung out with Grandma and Grandpa a lot too. We got a lot of fun naps being held and it helped spoil us rotten, but in a good way. Having for extra hands to deal with the baby made life a lot easier and I think all babies should have a 4:1 caregiver:baby ratio (at least for the caregiver's sake).
Also this weekend we got to meet another set of great -grandparents. Below are some photos from it. It is so wonderful to see my grandfather enamored with my son. It does a mom's heart good. And naturally he turned on the charm to win them over completely!
Four generations!
We also hung out with Grandma and Grandpa a lot too. We got a lot of fun naps being held and it helped spoil us rotten, but in a good way. Having for extra hands to deal with the baby made life a lot easier and I think all babies should have a 4:1 caregiver:baby ratio (at least for the caregiver's sake).
Also this weekend we got to meet another set of great -grandparents. Below are some photos from it. It is so wonderful to see my grandfather enamored with my son. It does a mom's heart good. And naturally he turned on the charm to win them over completely!
Four generations!Saturday, June 27, 2009
Happy 4 Months
Baby goat is 4 months old today (ok, technically yesterday but I'm not sleeping yet so it counts...so Bpppptt!) It is amazing to me that he is already 4 months old. He's getting so big and interested in everything. He's also recognizing people and just being cute and adorable as always.
We celebrated his four month birthday by finishing VBS, packing up what seemed like the entire apartment and driving 5 hours to the grandparents house in WI. We had to stop once for a feeding with some additonal upright time but we made the whole trip in about 6 hours and he slept most of the way. I hope he's going to sleep well tonight but so far so good.
His grandparents are of course thrilled to see him again and I am very excited for him to meet many of my friends tomorrow at a friend's baby shower. And his great-grandpa is coming down to visit him on Sunday so it will be a fun weekend of new people and places, starting today with his second state ever - Wisconsin - land of cheese, Packers and beer. Someday I hope he will grow to love all three as I do!
Happy Birthday Baby Goat! Keep up the good work.
We celebrated his four month birthday by finishing VBS, packing up what seemed like the entire apartment and driving 5 hours to the grandparents house in WI. We had to stop once for a feeding with some additonal upright time but we made the whole trip in about 6 hours and he slept most of the way. I hope he's going to sleep well tonight but so far so good.
His grandparents are of course thrilled to see him again and I am very excited for him to meet many of my friends tomorrow at a friend's baby shower. And his great-grandpa is coming down to visit him on Sunday so it will be a fun weekend of new people and places, starting today with his second state ever - Wisconsin - land of cheese, Packers and beer. Someday I hope he will grow to love all three as I do!
Happy Birthday Baby Goat! Keep up the good work.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Unpleasant morning discoveries
The musical Cats has a song that discusses two mischievous cats who get away with all sorts of trouble because there are two of them and their owners don't know who to blame. Sometimes our cats like to channel this technique, like this morning.
I come into the kitchen this morning to discover the freezer door wide open and all of the food (and more importantly extra breast milk) thawed and dripping on the floor. Sadly this is not the first time they have done this but it definitely puts the pressure on. Now instead of a backlog of milk I'm at square one with a baby who is rapidly closing in on 6 oz a feeding. Eeep.
So far I think I'll be able to keep up and put a bit away again but we'll just have to see what the boobs want to do. Any tips for boosting milk supply ladies? I've never been low but I want to work efficiently right now. (I can do research on this myself of course once VBS is done but if you know help a girl save some time).
Still, as frustrated as the morning scene is and as annoying it will be to throw away all the milk I think I'll still keep my trouble maker cats. They keep life interesting.
*Sidebar - milk can be thawed and used within twenty four hours and should not be refrozen, hence the whole supply is kaput.
I come into the kitchen this morning to discover the freezer door wide open and all of the food (and more importantly extra breast milk) thawed and dripping on the floor. Sadly this is not the first time they have done this but it definitely puts the pressure on. Now instead of a backlog of milk I'm at square one with a baby who is rapidly closing in on 6 oz a feeding. Eeep.
So far I think I'll be able to keep up and put a bit away again but we'll just have to see what the boobs want to do. Any tips for boosting milk supply ladies? I've never been low but I want to work efficiently right now. (I can do research on this myself of course once VBS is done but if you know help a girl save some time).
Still, as frustrated as the morning scene is and as annoying it will be to throw away all the milk I think I'll still keep my trouble maker cats. They keep life interesting.
*Sidebar - milk can be thawed and used within twenty four hours and should not be refrozen, hence the whole supply is kaput.
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