Old Soul
I think the stongest term that comes to my mind when looking into Aedans face is that he is an "old soul". Not a very common thing to see in a childs face, but he is full of contemplation and sometimes seriousness, he does laugh and smile and do all those cute baby things... but this photo I think really captures a deeper part of his personality.
Guess what I learned today!
Today Aedan learned to climb stairs like a big boy!!
More heart attacks for mommy!
SICK! SICK! SICK!
Being a mom and being sick is the worst... We got the flu here, it struck us down one by one it's been about 10 days of illness here.
Poor Aedan got it first. His first day was throwing up, several times, while I tried to keep him hydrated and rested. Of course being mommy, I was deemed "catcher" every time he got sick, that also means, I had full on exposure and the countdown began until I too would be sick, and all I hoped was that he would be over it when I got struck down.
Aedan's second day, I thought he was over it, He was fussy, and sleepy, but easy to handle and easy to comfort... I was wrong.
Day three was the worst. He started getting runny diapers hourly, and cramped so bad he could barely sleep more than 20 minutes here or there and wake up in pain again. In a 24hour period he got maybe 3 hours of sleep. Andrew offered to stay home that day to help me. I told him no - go to work, it would only be a matter of time before he or I got sick, and thats when we would really need him home.
After 24 hours of illness we procured kaopectite to firm up what was going on on his insides to give my poor tortured babe a break. It isn't recommended to give this sort of thing to a young babe, but I weighed sleep, healing sleep, ahead of flushing the bug fast. It worked withing 5 minutes! His cramps stopped, his poop stopped and I declared this simple pharmaceutical a miracle as I too went down for a rest. We "napped" for about 5 hours and at 10:45 the medicine had worn off and my babe was up gassy and crampy again.
The smell of the gas made me VERY nautious... by 11:00 I was puking - and Andrew??? still at work for 2 more hours - Suck!
I had that energy you get after vomiting in which I tried to calm Aedan down again, nurse him, I tried to go without that medicine as he had some rest and we really needed the bug out. As I was nursing him, the Nausea crept back up again and I found myself huddling over our toilet as my baby cried. It was horrible. I started trying to call Andrews Cell to let him know I was sick, if he could get off early I needed him. He works in a call center and it's impossible to get through during regular business hours, the chances of getting through at night were slim.
It got to the point where the smell of my babes skin, the warmth of his body, and the sound of his voice just all made me more and more nautious and worked up those reflexes even more. By the time Andrew came home I was a limp rag and our baby was so worked up worried for himself, wondering what was wrong with mommy, and just plain needing sleep.
Andrew himself had had maybe only 3 hours of sleep in something over 24 hours and I'm sure was only thinking to crawl into bed.
He really stepped up. Poor Aedan only wanted me and Andrew did his best to help Aedan and not take his cries as rejection. We played musical beds me trying to sleep on the basement couch - living room couch, - then not having enough time to get to a place to empty myself , while Aedan and Andrew would take to a separate floor so the sounds of his cries and the smells of his bum wouldn't aggravate me anymore.
All the while I was just trying to keep some gravol down and keep hydrated so I would be able to Nurse Aedan when he needed.
By 5 AM we decided me in our regular bed and Andrew and Aedan taking up camp on the main floor was the best arrangement
At 5 Am the Gravol finally stayed down and I started my fitful gravol-sickness induce hallucinogenic dreaming - Waking occasionally to take sips of water, wich somehow managed to keep refilling itself( thank you Andrew )
Sometimes when I woke, I would hear Aedan crying downstairs, I wanted to go to him so badly, Id get up and weakness and dizziness would get the better of me and lay back down. I wanted to cry - I was too weak. So I repeated the mantra the best thing I can do for Aedan is sleep, the best thing I can do for Andrew is sleep, The best thing I can do for me is sleep, I need to sleep to get better.... - back into my hallucinogenic dreams I would go.
It was ugly.
Finally at about 4 in the afternoon I woke up, the gravol would have been long worn of, I wasn't nautious, the babe wasn't crying, I leaned over, sipped my water and didn't feel dizzy - I stood up , I was damn weak, and still tired - but I needed to rejoin my family.
I took me and my "just in case bucket" downstairs to see a dog tired Andrew and a beaming happy baby open his arms and come flying at me. It felt so good to hug him.
The next day was a tonne better for me... then of course thats when Andrew started to get sick. He's finally on the mend himself, and it's about Airing, cleaning and disinfecting the house now.
This was hard! but we got through it and I'm so proud we did. Now to avoid getting sick again... hmmm , no more play dates .....
Poor Aedan got it first. His first day was throwing up, several times, while I tried to keep him hydrated and rested. Of course being mommy, I was deemed "catcher" every time he got sick, that also means, I had full on exposure and the countdown began until I too would be sick, and all I hoped was that he would be over it when I got struck down.
Aedan's second day, I thought he was over it, He was fussy, and sleepy, but easy to handle and easy to comfort... I was wrong.
Day three was the worst. He started getting runny diapers hourly, and cramped so bad he could barely sleep more than 20 minutes here or there and wake up in pain again. In a 24hour period he got maybe 3 hours of sleep. Andrew offered to stay home that day to help me. I told him no - go to work, it would only be a matter of time before he or I got sick, and thats when we would really need him home.
After 24 hours of illness we procured kaopectite to firm up what was going on on his insides to give my poor tortured babe a break. It isn't recommended to give this sort of thing to a young babe, but I weighed sleep, healing sleep, ahead of flushing the bug fast. It worked withing 5 minutes! His cramps stopped, his poop stopped and I declared this simple pharmaceutical a miracle as I too went down for a rest. We "napped" for about 5 hours and at 10:45 the medicine had worn off and my babe was up gassy and crampy again.
The smell of the gas made me VERY nautious... by 11:00 I was puking - and Andrew??? still at work for 2 more hours - Suck!
I had that energy you get after vomiting in which I tried to calm Aedan down again, nurse him, I tried to go without that medicine as he had some rest and we really needed the bug out. As I was nursing him, the Nausea crept back up again and I found myself huddling over our toilet as my baby cried. It was horrible. I started trying to call Andrews Cell to let him know I was sick, if he could get off early I needed him. He works in a call center and it's impossible to get through during regular business hours, the chances of getting through at night were slim.
It got to the point where the smell of my babes skin, the warmth of his body, and the sound of his voice just all made me more and more nautious and worked up those reflexes even more. By the time Andrew came home I was a limp rag and our baby was so worked up worried for himself, wondering what was wrong with mommy, and just plain needing sleep.
Andrew himself had had maybe only 3 hours of sleep in something over 24 hours and I'm sure was only thinking to crawl into bed.
He really stepped up. Poor Aedan only wanted me and Andrew did his best to help Aedan and not take his cries as rejection. We played musical beds me trying to sleep on the basement couch - living room couch, - then not having enough time to get to a place to empty myself , while Aedan and Andrew would take to a separate floor so the sounds of his cries and the smells of his bum wouldn't aggravate me anymore.
All the while I was just trying to keep some gravol down and keep hydrated so I would be able to Nurse Aedan when he needed.
By 5 AM we decided me in our regular bed and Andrew and Aedan taking up camp on the main floor was the best arrangement
At 5 Am the Gravol finally stayed down and I started my fitful gravol-sickness induce hallucinogenic dreaming - Waking occasionally to take sips of water, wich somehow managed to keep refilling itself( thank you Andrew )
Sometimes when I woke, I would hear Aedan crying downstairs, I wanted to go to him so badly, Id get up and weakness and dizziness would get the better of me and lay back down. I wanted to cry - I was too weak. So I repeated the mantra the best thing I can do for Aedan is sleep, the best thing I can do for Andrew is sleep, The best thing I can do for me is sleep, I need to sleep to get better.... - back into my hallucinogenic dreams I would go.
It was ugly.
Finally at about 4 in the afternoon I woke up, the gravol would have been long worn of, I wasn't nautious, the babe wasn't crying, I leaned over, sipped my water and didn't feel dizzy - I stood up , I was damn weak, and still tired - but I needed to rejoin my family.
I took me and my "just in case bucket" downstairs to see a dog tired Andrew and a beaming happy baby open his arms and come flying at me. It felt so good to hug him.
The next day was a tonne better for me... then of course thats when Andrew started to get sick. He's finally on the mend himself, and it's about Airing, cleaning and disinfecting the house now.
This was hard! but we got through it and I'm so proud we did. Now to avoid getting sick again... hmmm , no more play dates .....
Dirty Diapers II ... Trying cloth!
At my favourite children's consignment store Emma's Closet I found a huge lot of Motherease cloth diapers - 2 dozen diapers and a dozen doublers for about $100, thats about a quarter of the price if they were bought new! It seems at inspection of these diapers that the previous owner of them washed them up to "fluff" them and prepare them for diapering, and then backed down. They were in "like new" condition... WOW... what a steal!
Still $100 is a steep investment, and I hesitated and asked the clerk to hold them for me while I did a bit more research to see if this was a purchase I really wanted to make. I scowered the manufacturers website, I took advice from My online Moms group, I hit forums that rated different cloth diapers and read every bad review I could find, I searched about resale value on kijiji and Craigslist And found that these really are a favourite cloth diaper for family's that do cloth diapering, and if it doesn't work out for me, I can re sell them for double what Emma's closet was asking for them.
We bought a couple vynil covers from Sears... Kushies brand name. They aren't the best for covers,as in they could let out more heat and breath better, but they work for now and get us started.
So this is cloth diapering day 1! My conscience is feeling cleaner, and hopefully this will be healthy for Aedan...I'll let you know how it goes!
Still $100 is a steep investment, and I hesitated and asked the clerk to hold them for me while I did a bit more research to see if this was a purchase I really wanted to make. I scowered the manufacturers website, I took advice from My online Moms group, I hit forums that rated different cloth diapers and read every bad review I could find, I searched about resale value on kijiji and Craigslist And found that these really are a favourite cloth diaper for family's that do cloth diapering, and if it doesn't work out for me, I can re sell them for double what Emma's closet was asking for them.
We bought a couple vynil covers from Sears... Kushies brand name. They aren't the best for covers,as in they could let out more heat and breath better, but they work for now and get us started.
So this is cloth diapering day 1! My conscience is feeling cleaner, and hopefully this will be healthy for Aedan...I'll let you know how it goes!
Dirty Diapers
Lets talk diapers for a minute...
Aedan has been having a couple days of "cleaning out" and Ive changed more than a weeks worth in just a couple days. when this happens, I of course feel sad for my son who's insides won't let him rest, but I even feel more guilty for the mark it leaves on our planet.
Baby's go through a tonne of them, well more than a tonne if you want to be literal. I'm environmentally conscious and wanted and hoped cloth diapering would work for us.... Several yeast rashes later... it didn't cloth just holds too much moisture close to the skin and the PH of urine isn't very friendly to my baby boys sensitive skin.
So pampers is what we use...
I just found out about gdiapers.
They are a cloth-disposable hybrid, the insert is flushable and biodegradable, compostable liner inside a cotton washable diaper pant and my curiosity is peaked.
I'd rather not continue to litter landfills with my sons diapers that may see 5 centuries beyond me.I hope to use them , that they are kind to Aedens posterior and I'm hoping to find a local(ish) retailer, as for me, it's just not worth buying them online.... I'd rather run out and get some when the fancy strikes me.
Hopefully I can find them and they will be economical. But if they don't work out for us, hopefully some other mom or dad out there will see this on my blog, and try them, and help reduce waste in our landfills.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if other big brand diaper companies were this environmentally conscience?
Aedan has been having a couple days of "cleaning out" and Ive changed more than a weeks worth in just a couple days. when this happens, I of course feel sad for my son who's insides won't let him rest, but I even feel more guilty for the mark it leaves on our planet.
Baby's go through a tonne of them, well more than a tonne if you want to be literal. I'm environmentally conscious and wanted and hoped cloth diapering would work for us.... Several yeast rashes later... it didn't cloth just holds too much moisture close to the skin and the PH of urine isn't very friendly to my baby boys sensitive skin.
So pampers is what we use...
I just found out about gdiapers.
They are a cloth-disposable hybrid, the insert is flushable and biodegradable, compostable liner inside a cotton washable diaper pant and my curiosity is peaked.
I'd rather not continue to litter landfills with my sons diapers that may see 5 centuries beyond me.I hope to use them , that they are kind to Aedens posterior and I'm hoping to find a local(ish) retailer, as for me, it's just not worth buying them online.... I'd rather run out and get some when the fancy strikes me.
Hopefully I can find them and they will be economical. But if they don't work out for us, hopefully some other mom or dad out there will see this on my blog, and try them, and help reduce waste in our landfills.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if other big brand diaper companies were this environmentally conscience?
Aedan Gets a Big Boy bed.
Over the Holidays we finally set up Aedan's "Big Boy Bed" He figured out how to climb out of his crib, so although early for a bed- it was most definetly time. He loves being able to get in and out of it himself, And pulls toys and books up onto it and lounges on back.
The most interesting part about this simple bed is Aedan's daddy slept in it when he was little, so did Aedan's Grandma Painter when she was a little girl. this bed was made by Aedan's Great Granpa Robert Jones. What a wonderful heirloom!
First Tooth
Well 2 days ago I was feeding some food to Aedan off my finger and to my suprise felt a razor sharp edge, I couldn't figure if it was in his food, but then realized Aedan had cut his first tooth.... a top tooth !
Upon inspection, we could tell a second one had broken on the bottom as well.... could feel it's sharpness, but it wasn't visable yet , though it is today.
Today I can also feel the second bottom one and the top gum for that last 4th front tooth is so swollen it's about to come through too.
Saying goodbye to gummy smiles is a little hard but I am welcoming those big toothy grins!
Baby it's Cold Outside...
Aedan really wanted out for a walk today, it was so cold, we only had a short time out. He so loves going outside though so he spent lots of time looking out a window... poor baby - it's too cold outside for mamma!
Future Teenager
So I think my Camera can see the future, Cause I'm sure this is the face of my future teenager!
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