Ah, more pictures of the much-adored baby of the house. Newborns need lots of sucking time, and to save our pinkie fingers, we sometimes give Phillip a pacifier - it's not too often that he really wants to suck for a long time; I've read that breastfed babies need less sucking time than bottle-fed ones. After about 3 months, they no longer need so much sucking time, and away disappears the pacifier forever (you will not see Phillip having a pacifier popped into his mouth at the slightest peep when he's two.) I think this pacifier is hilarious because you can see right into his mouth, and his lips are perfectly round. Tee-hee, what a cutie. Even with his baby acne, which is supposed to clear up on its own.
We introduced the bottle to Phillip a few days ago, and he took it no problem from his dad, which made for one happy mum! It's nice to know that if I can't be home for a feeding or whatever, he'll take it. It seems as though it wouldn't matter what source it came from, if it involves milk, Phillip's happy to take it. The breastpump I bought is a
Medela mini-electric, and I like it just fine. I've never tried any other ones, so I don't know if I would like them any better or worse, but this one does the job admirably.
Cloth diapers - we haven't been able to use any of our cloth diapers yet, because Phillip is so small! Doctors kept saying that he would be a big baby, so the diapers I bought are mostly 10-22lb size, and we also have a bunch of prefolds, all of which are the 'regular' size, and there's no way I can figure out to get them wrapped around him until he's a bit bigger. (Turns out that he was sitting so high when I was pregnant that it appeared that he was giant, when he was really just really high up.) So we're using disposables for now, which I am more OK with than I would have thought I would be, probably because I don't have much time to think about it. But he's growing like a weed (his cheeks looked positively fat today) so it won't be long before he's in the cloth ones.
I'm feeling fairly well rested after a nice long nap this afternoon, and I had a haircut this morning which always makes me feel more presentable. Phillip's sleeping away (although I'm hearing some squeaks, so he might need to be changed) and I've got a couple more thank-you notes to write before Adam gets home from work. It's a lovely and peaceful day in the neighbourhood!
I was admiring how well my strawberry plants are doing this evening, when I noticed something strange on one of the plants...
a lineup of tiny spiders, seemingly crawling willy-nilly over a web, back and forth, back and forth. I took a closer look and found the source -
a ball 'o spiders! A teeny, teeming ball of itsy bitsy spiders. When I took a tissue to brush them off of the strawberry plant, they scattered in all directions.
We had some salad the other night with lettuce from our garden, yay! It's delicious, and no bugs (or squirrels, Josh) seem to be interested in eating it. We have red leaf lettuce (above), green leaf lettuce, (below) and butter lettuce (below below on the far right). Mmmmm!
And the blossoms are starting to appear on the sugar snap peas, yay!
