The internet is suddenly out, so it seems like the perfect
opportunity to write a blog post. When I’ll be able to post it is another
matter entirely, but we’ll deal with that later. For now, the dogs are in their
crates (because they weren’t mindful of the baby), the baby is sound asleep
(though for how long is the ultimate question), the husband is at work, and I’m
enjoying this extremely comfortable couch in absolute silence [save for the
clicking of my keyboard and the humming of the baby monitor].
Last week we went to Oklahoma for my sister’s graduation
from Basic Training for the Army. Even though traveling with a baby is
something I strive to always avoid, it was wonderful to be there with the
family. My parents flew to the states for the occasion, so we all got to be
together for three days or so.
[What the heck? First, I type that my husband is at work and
then thirty seconds later he texts me that he’s on his way home for dinner. No
problem, I like it when he comes home. But then, two minutes after typing that
the baby is sound asleep—a sleep that took all of one minute to happen a mere
15 minutes ago—he’s now awake and standing in his crib and crying. I don’t even
know what to say. I have got to learn
to stop typing these things! It’s too risky! Now I’m just sitting here, staring
at my laptop.]
OK, the husband is back at work. Our internet is working
again, but I can put off watching Gilmore Girls for the umpteenth time until
after I finish this post. Hah.
So back to Oklahoma and my sister’s graduation. Overall, the
trip was great! We discovered that Logan is quite the extrovert and knows no
strangers. (He literally reached for a random woman at the graduation ceremony
and sat on her lap for a good ten/fifteen minutes. No joke.) No matter how
little sleep that baby got, as long as there was a room full of people, he was
the happiest baby on the block. He made me look like a crazy new mom for
insisting that he needs two naps a
day, because even after missing one or both of his naps, he was still smiling
and having a blast. He was exhausted—but happy. It wasn’t until we got home and
all the people were gone that his exhaustion caught up with him and he suddenly
became quite fussy and inconsolable. We got back to Waco on Saturday afternoon
and that night, he slept for nearly 15 hours. (Not straight through. Don’t get
too excited.) Speaking of baby sleep, since I’ve been so obsessed with the
topic lately, it only makes sense that my very first “mama bear” moment came as
a result of baby sleep—or lack thereof. Thursday morning at 10:00 am, we
attended Fort Sill’s Family Day. Well Logan typically naps right around ten
most mornings. So he had to skip his morning nap. Once Brittany could leave
base with us for the rest of the day, we went out for lunch. It was a long wait
because we had a big party and the food took a while to come out, but Logan was
doing fine, so we just took his lead. Once he started getting a bit fussy, we
decided to leave the restaurant a bit early and get him down for an afternoon
nap. Once we got to the hotel, he was asleep within two minutes of being in his
pack n play. Two minutes! Poor baby was exhausted! Then twenty minutes later,
because everything in the entire world conspires to ruin baby sleep, the fire
alarm in the hotel started going off. It was LOUD. However, after five minutes
of continuous alarm-ing, my sleeping child still hadn’t woken up. It was
amazing! I was about to go deaf, and he was still asleep. I called the front
desk to find out if it was a fluke or if we actually needed to evacuate the building to which the receptionist said that
we had to leave the building. I had
to WAKE MY BABY UP because there was a supposed fire. I was a bit cranky about
it, but you know, fires are bad. After the fire alarm was turned off, we went
back inside and I tried in vain to get Logan back to sleep. I knew he wouldn’t
put himself back to sleep, but I had hopes that I could nurse him to sleep in
the bed. Just as he was dozing off, the fire alarm went off again. I was no
longer cranky. I was livid. He eventually sat up and was far too awake for any
more napping. I called the front desk again only to find out that they had only
been testing the system all along. It was just a test. I yelled at the woman on
the phone, informing her that I wasn’t paying good money to stay at a hotel
where I couldn’t even let my baby nap! But even after yelling on the phone, I
was still on fire. I decided to go yell at them in person (Travis went with me
just to make sure I stayed relatively calm) in the lobby. The general manager
told me there was nothing she could have done because when the fire marshal
says they need to test the system, they have to test the system and she told everyone at dinner the night
before and breakfast that morning that it was going to happen. My response?
I WAS AT DINNER AND BREAKFAST! NO ONE
TOLD ME ANYTHING! If I had known, I
would never have left lunch early to get my son down for a twenty-minute nap!
She apologized. I left still angry. Logan was smiling with the family upstairs.
I looked like a lunatic. Eventually I got over it. The manager gave us an apology gift and I felt pretty bad. But I experienced my first mama bear moment. I don’t know that I
want to experience many more. Hah.
I’ve also now experienced the
“grandparents/aunts/uncles/etc. will feed your baby anything” thing. Logan ate
chocolate-chip cookies, chocolate, ice cream…we’re limiting his sugar now. Hah.
He also ate some fruits and veggies every once in a while. J We have some great
pictures of him eating a huge strawberry. He loved it and he was a complete
mess.
For the rest of my Logan news, I’m switching to bullet
points. It’s faster.
- Logan is now very adept at walking with his walker. It makes me nervous that solo walking is right around the corner.
- Despite all the fun animal-shaped bath toys Logan has, the only toy he wants to play with now is the water dipper. The one bath item that’s for me to use is now his favorite. Figures.
- He waves now! Not so much at appropriate times, but he loves to wave and loves it even more if you wave back!
- We had our first “poop in the bathtub” experience. Could have done without that one.
- Today was like a flying unicorn kind of day. Logan hardly fussed all day. He took two 1 hour, 15 minute naps. He sat on my lap for about ten minutes and giggled every time I said, “Puh-puh-poof!” [What can I say? I’m hysterical.] He sat in his high chair happily for over half an hour while I made his and my dinner. He ate some yellow curry with rice and seemed to like it. The dogs ran into him while going through the doggie door and he only cried for a little while—scrambled eggs and some bites of a biscuit made it all better. He loved my “Zaccheus” song and didn’t cry when I took him out of the bathtub. And for the first time maybe ever, I didn’t want it to be bedtime yet. Flying unicorn days may not be very frequent, but I sure loved this one.
In other news, we had to get our AC fixed in our good car,
so I’ve had no car for the last two days. I had to drive Travis’s awful car
this morning and couldn’t seem to get it into gear. I have no clue how or why,
but I kept maxing out at 40 mph even when I was in fifth gear. Travis says I
obviously wasn’t in fifth gear, but I don’t know what else I could have been
in. Fifth is the furthest gear you can be in. I’m not saying that “user error”
is an impossibility, but I drove that car for a year to and from work every
single day and I never had this problem. Granted it’s been a couple years since
then, but driving a stick is like riding a bike, right? Anyway, we get our car
back tomorrow morning. Yay!
If you like chocolate, you should make Pioneer Woman’s
chocolate pie filling recipe and eat it as chocolate pudding. [Same same.] I
made a whole recipe on Sunday and finished eating it this afternoon—and I’m not
even sorry. UH-mazing!
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