Our little girl was allowed to watch some Heidi and Care Bear songs on You Tube tonight and also found this video. It's so cute, I just had to share it here. Enjoy! :)
Showing posts with label Parenting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Parenting. Show all posts
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
One Sick Girl & Her First Antibiotics
Well, I'm happy to say that we made it 3 years and 3 months without having to use antibiotics for our big, little girl! Not bad I think. Olivia told us yesterday that her right ear hurt. On top of that, her eyes were discharging yellow and green goobers/mucus. We cleaned them often but after 30min or so, the goobers/mucus always came back. Olivia was unconsolable for a couple of hours and kept crying on and off, saying to me at one point: "I chann eifach nit ufhoere/I just can't stop!" When I asked her what it was she couldn't stop, she told me: "Bruele/to cry." Poor thing.
We figured it would be best to see our beloved Dr. Dawood today. Normally, the waiting time to get in to see her is a few days, but we lucked out getting an appointment today. My sister from this blog helped us out by coming with us, which made life a heck of a lot easier! Oh, and we gave the Sarah-Mobil another spin, taking it to the Doctor's so thanks to Sarah!
To make a long story short, Dr. Dawood got me to look Olivia's right ear after she checked it out and it was really red. So, Olivia is on antibiotics (APO-AMOXI) three times a day for the next 7 days. In fact, she is begging me for them right now, as her antibiotics are banana flavoured - figures!
Not sure if it's really a good idea, having banana flavoured medicine - Olivia is having way too much fun with it already! Any thoughts on that one?
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Changing the Diaper
I know this is a little off topic from the recipes and such, but I feel that I should share with the world (or at least, the 9 people a month who read this) about changing Lexie's bum. Before I get started, I know from time to time Sylvia or myself will say "change the bum" in front of other parents and get funny looks. That is what we (and I think Sylvia will say just me, and she picked it up) say for changing the diaper. I know, if you take it in the most literal meaning, it doesn't make a lick of sense, but hey, we are who we are.
Anyway, on to the changing of Lexie's bum. You see, what makes it special and unique is that when you take off here diaper, this is the time that she decided to poop. And I don't mean just a little girl trickle of poop, I am talking it is like a canon going off. So when you change her, you have to hold her legs up and wait for the inevitable to occur. Oh, and it doesn't stop there, no. She then pees at us and decided to throw up at the same time. All the orifices are getting a work out a changing time. It didn't take us too long to set up a shielding system for us so that our clothes and whatever she is on when we change her (bed, floor, change table etc) gets the full brunt of Lexie. There have been times, when we first brought her home, that we went through five diapers and three sleeper in one changing session!
In the end, she has such a satisfied look on her face after she explodes at us, it almost is worth it.
..I am sure if she were to ever read this some time in the future, she would be mortified. I guess that is what dads are supposed to do right?
Until next time,
-d
Anyway, on to the changing of Lexie's bum. You see, what makes it special and unique is that when you take off here diaper, this is the time that she decided to poop. And I don't mean just a little girl trickle of poop, I am talking it is like a canon going off. So when you change her, you have to hold her legs up and wait for the inevitable to occur. Oh, and it doesn't stop there, no. She then pees at us and decided to throw up at the same time. All the orifices are getting a work out a changing time. It didn't take us too long to set up a shielding system for us so that our clothes and whatever she is on when we change her (bed, floor, change table etc) gets the full brunt of Lexie. There have been times, when we first brought her home, that we went through five diapers and three sleeper in one changing session!
In the end, she has such a satisfied look on her face after she explodes at us, it almost is worth it.
..I am sure if she were to ever read this some time in the future, she would be mortified. I guess that is what dads are supposed to do right?
Until next time,
-d
Monday, June 21, 2010
Homemade Baby Wipe Recipe
We decided the other day to try to make our own baby wipes, just for the shear reason because we can. We found a recipe for homemade wipes here, but I will summarize the method.
1 roll of strong paper towel, select-a-size (scott paper towel, Spongetowels)
2 cups of water
2 tbsp of baby bath soap
2 tbsp of either baby lotion or baby oil (or we did one of each)
1 container to put all the stuff in (We used an empty wipes container)
Cut the paper towel roll in half and remove the cardboard roll. Place it into the container and pour the slurry of all the ingredients over it and wait for about an hour for the paper towel to absorb all of the liquid. Ta da, that is all there is to it.
Pros:
-Easy and quick to make
-Much cheaper than buying a tub of wipes
-You know what all the constituents are in the solution
-Clean the bum rather nicely
Cons:
-Cutting a roll of paper towel in half is damn hard. I had trouble cutting through with my really sharp bread knife. It is almost as though you would need a band saw to cut through easily.
-Getting the wipes off the roll, either from the inside or the outside proved rather tedious, but that might be due to the tub that we used to house the wipes.
I figured a better way to prepare the wipes, so that it is easy to access the wipes.
Using the same ingredients as above, take a roll of select-a-size paper towel and tear them apart. Place them in the container, interlinking them when you over lay them, so that when you pull one out, the next one (ideally) will follow. When they are all in the container, pour the slurry over them.
Pros:
Similar to above, but it is a heck of a lot easier to get to the wipes and pull them out
Cons:
Much more time consuming, but really worth it when you have to do a midnight changing and you can't fiddle around with trying to find the start of a wipe.
-d
1 roll of strong paper towel, select-a-size (scott paper towel, Spongetowels)
2 cups of water
2 tbsp of baby bath soap
2 tbsp of either baby lotion or baby oil (or we did one of each)
1 container to put all the stuff in (We used an empty wipes container)
Cut the paper towel roll in half and remove the cardboard roll. Place it into the container and pour the slurry of all the ingredients over it and wait for about an hour for the paper towel to absorb all of the liquid. Ta da, that is all there is to it.
Pros:
-Easy and quick to make
-Much cheaper than buying a tub of wipes
-You know what all the constituents are in the solution
-Clean the bum rather nicely
Cons:
-Cutting a roll of paper towel in half is damn hard. I had trouble cutting through with my really sharp bread knife. It is almost as though you would need a band saw to cut through easily.
-Getting the wipes off the roll, either from the inside or the outside proved rather tedious, but that might be due to the tub that we used to house the wipes.
I figured a better way to prepare the wipes, so that it is easy to access the wipes.
Using the same ingredients as above, take a roll of select-a-size paper towel and tear them apart. Place them in the container, interlinking them when you over lay them, so that when you pull one out, the next one (ideally) will follow. When they are all in the container, pour the slurry over them.
Pros:
Similar to above, but it is a heck of a lot easier to get to the wipes and pull them out
Cons:
Much more time consuming, but really worth it when you have to do a midnight changing and you can't fiddle around with trying to find the start of a wipe.
-d
Monday, June 7, 2010
Daddying
I don't think in history anyone has ever said "You know what, being a Dad is a piece of cake." Well, maybe there are some people who have said that, and those people fall under two categories: The fathers that are never around, and have the mother completely take care of the baby and the deadbeat dads who run away from the family. But those types of people don't really count anyway, so I will not further discuss them.
For the past year and a bit I have been a stay-at-home dad. I started when I was still writing my thesis, and continued until this day, and will continue now until I find a job. The decision to stay at home was was easy and tough at the same time. It was easy, because who wouldn't want to have a Sugar mama (thanks hon) to take care of the bills while I get to play with my daughter and toys all day. It was tough, because I really want to try my chops at working in a real job, where I have to use my brain (I currently work at a video store part time).
It has been a satisfying year. I have learned much in responsibility and how to take care of another human being. I have been able to teach my daughter in the ways of the Force, about Yoda, how to count, colours, help her master walking. All the good things. For me, it would be tough not to want to be involved in these learning steps in her life. I know that my wife says it sucks to be gone all day, and only getting to see the little turkey for a couple of hours at most every day.
I will have to continue my thoughts on fathering on another occasion, as my kid has just taken all my video games out and they are scattered all over the floor.
-d
For the past year and a bit I have been a stay-at-home dad. I started when I was still writing my thesis, and continued until this day, and will continue now until I find a job. The decision to stay at home was was easy and tough at the same time. It was easy, because who wouldn't want to have a Sugar mama (thanks hon) to take care of the bills while I get to play with my daughter and toys all day. It was tough, because I really want to try my chops at working in a real job, where I have to use my brain (I currently work at a video store part time).
It has been a satisfying year. I have learned much in responsibility and how to take care of another human being. I have been able to teach my daughter in the ways of the Force, about Yoda, how to count, colours, help her master walking. All the good things. For me, it would be tough not to want to be involved in these learning steps in her life. I know that my wife says it sucks to be gone all day, and only getting to see the little turkey for a couple of hours at most every day.
I will have to continue my thoughts on fathering on another occasion, as my kid has just taken all my video games out and they are scattered all over the floor.
-d
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