We're home. We've been home for a week now but my access to Blogger has been limited. My iPhone is off limits (exceeded data) and our good computer is having issues thanks to windows7thatmaynotbeauthentic. Dark ages.
Things are going well. My reaction while away was an overreaction. I came back to a clean house and just looking around I knew that I was crazy to think we had an issue. I'm hoping that all of my anxiety about our move and the house is over now that the larger aspects of our reno are complete. I had no idea how hard this (moving/renovating) was going to be!
IN OTHER NEWS:
CLOTHING: Sadie is growing like a weed. She's suddenly outgrown most of her clothing and with the change of the season we've found ourselves short on things for her to wear. Time to go shopping! We actually had a really hard time at the mall. Baby Gap, which was our favourite early on, has turned a bit too trendy for our liking. Do babies really need skinny jeans?? I know that a lot of people say that girls are more "fun" or "easier" to shop for than boys but what I'm personally finding is that boys have a good selection of comfortable and PRACTICAL clothing that simply isn't matched on the girls side of the store. The best we can find is from Carter's and OshKosh. Good price, good quality and baby appropriate. I also hit the jackpot at an amazing second hand store and bought several fall outfits (many Gymboree) for $60.
TEETHING: Tooth #7 and tooth #8 are here!
FEEDING: We're still slowly moving along in this department. I've bought a mini food processor and I'm going to try it out this weekend. We've tried many new foods since my last report. Barley cereal has been a big hit and so have apricots. We're tasting lots of new things but not really consuming much. Again, I don't think she's picky. She's just not that interested.
TOYS: Sadie LOVES Peak-a-Blocks. If you're on my FB you know I've gone a bit insane looking for them! Well she now has a large collection of maybe 75 or so and she is so cute playing with them. She intently looks inside them and I know she wants to touch the little things inside. The BEST part is that she doesn't just suck/chew on them. She actually plays!
JDZ: Two Moms, One Toddler
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
I can do this
It's a new day that doesn't seem quite as scary. I now know that even one day of missed medication can throw me into despair.
Yes, the situation at hand is scary and not ideal but I'm reminding myself of the following:
1) The house was immaculate when we moved in. It was immaculate when we viewed it and immaculate when we inspected it. Therefore it's not as if we moved into a dirty home where something would be "littered".
2) The location of the acupuncture needle found inside was on the landing by the front door indicating it was on its way out (perhaps in garbage?). The layout of the house, as a raised bungalow, is that you enter the front door to a landing with stairs leading up or down. Honestly, it's been piled with boxes since we moved in and we hadn't cleaned there. It's the only place on the upper house we hadn't cleaned when we moved in. The other needle was found on our driveway. Again, indicating the needles were being taken OUT of the house.
3) When we moved in my Aunt vacuumed, mopped and swiffered our upstairs thoroughly.
4) I know the facts of the biological risk and there is none at this point. HIV lives in blood 24 ours, dried only several hours. Hep C and B live 2 weeks dried. We've been in the house 2 months and Sadie was not mobile enough to get into trouble within the first few weeks. Also, the owners of the house were an elderly Asian couple most likely using acupuncture for something like chronic pain.
5)Although the subject matter is scary being that it is a needle the risk could be there with many things leftover from a previous owner. Prescription medication, sewing needles, broken glass. I should do a big clean before letting our toddler loose regardless.
I can do this...
Yes, the situation at hand is scary and not ideal but I'm reminding myself of the following:
1) The house was immaculate when we moved in. It was immaculate when we viewed it and immaculate when we inspected it. Therefore it's not as if we moved into a dirty home where something would be "littered".
2) The location of the acupuncture needle found inside was on the landing by the front door indicating it was on its way out (perhaps in garbage?). The layout of the house, as a raised bungalow, is that you enter the front door to a landing with stairs leading up or down. Honestly, it's been piled with boxes since we moved in and we hadn't cleaned there. It's the only place on the upper house we hadn't cleaned when we moved in. The other needle was found on our driveway. Again, indicating the needles were being taken OUT of the house.
3) When we moved in my Aunt vacuumed, mopped and swiffered our upstairs thoroughly.
4) I know the facts of the biological risk and there is none at this point. HIV lives in blood 24 ours, dried only several hours. Hep C and B live 2 weeks dried. We've been in the house 2 months and Sadie was not mobile enough to get into trouble within the first few weeks. Also, the owners of the house were an elderly Asian couple most likely using acupuncture for something like chronic pain.
5)Although the subject matter is scary being that it is a needle the risk could be there with many things leftover from a previous owner. Prescription medication, sewing needles, broken glass. I should do a big clean before letting our toddler loose regardless.
I can do this...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
I need a hug
Really badly. ):
Today has been SHIT:
I'm STILL at my mom's. My "vacation" here ended about a week ago when I became super homesick. The problem is that the work at the house keeps dragging out.
We were supposed to have our cable installed today but the cable company, who previously couldn't install because of our poor wiring, took issue with our BRAND NEW DEDICATED cable lines. We went from having Analog TV, Internet and Phone to ONLY TV by the afternoon because the jackass cable guy cut out the old cables BEFORE verifying the new ones worked. Now the cable company is blaming our electrician and our electrician is blaming the cable company. It seems that big cable company customer service department is paid to prove the customer is always wrong because I got little sympathy from them when I explained that we had 3 services, albeit not they way we wanted them, in the morning to a choice of only 1 in the afternoon. We now have a 3rd installation appointment with them where I'm sure they will still be completely fucking useless. To mitigate that possibility I've invited my electrician to be there.
As if that wasn't stressful enough our contractor found an acupuncture needle inside our front door. That would be #2 because I'd also found one on the drive way.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give me the strength to deal with this because right now I'm sick with stress. All I can imagine is that our house is littered with acupuncture needles that Sadie will be able to find and swallow. Not to mention that I fear Sadie has already been pricked by one and infected by some scary disease.
There isn't a stitch of carpet in our home. I'm hoping and praying that I will be able to go over the place thoroughly enough to find any that may linger. If anyone has any advice on finding a needle (literally) in a haystack, please share.
btw, I called my doctor to discuss the associate risks of a needle stick and it's about 0. Not that I feel any better.
Yep, I need a hug. A big one.
Today has been SHIT:
I'm STILL at my mom's. My "vacation" here ended about a week ago when I became super homesick. The problem is that the work at the house keeps dragging out.
We were supposed to have our cable installed today but the cable company, who previously couldn't install because of our poor wiring, took issue with our BRAND NEW DEDICATED cable lines. We went from having Analog TV, Internet and Phone to ONLY TV by the afternoon because the jackass cable guy cut out the old cables BEFORE verifying the new ones worked. Now the cable company is blaming our electrician and our electrician is blaming the cable company. It seems that big cable company customer service department is paid to prove the customer is always wrong because I got little sympathy from them when I explained that we had 3 services, albeit not they way we wanted them, in the morning to a choice of only 1 in the afternoon. We now have a 3rd installation appointment with them where I'm sure they will still be completely fucking useless. To mitigate that possibility I've invited my electrician to be there.
As if that wasn't stressful enough our contractor found an acupuncture needle inside our front door. That would be #2 because I'd also found one on the drive way.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give me the strength to deal with this because right now I'm sick with stress. All I can imagine is that our house is littered with acupuncture needles that Sadie will be able to find and swallow. Not to mention that I fear Sadie has already been pricked by one and infected by some scary disease.
There isn't a stitch of carpet in our home. I'm hoping and praying that I will be able to go over the place thoroughly enough to find any that may linger. If anyone has any advice on finding a needle (literally) in a haystack, please share.
btw, I called my doctor to discuss the associate risks of a needle stick and it's about 0. Not that I feel any better.
Yep, I need a hug. A big one.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Food
I know I always get in trouble when I reference BBC but I'm going to do it again!
A December mom just posted a pic of her son chewing on a steak bone!!
It was under the heading "what do you feed your baby" and the responses varied from purees to Mr. Rib Eye who took top prize for OMG that seems so WRONG.
Sadie is so so far behind.
She isn't picky, she just doesn't care. Everything is more interesting (and tastier) than eating, especially things like her socks or her bib. Sticking her finger in her mouth or up her nose is also a fun meal time activity.
Over the last few weeks we've really picked things up. I can't buy our frozen organic purees here so we've switched to organic jarred. I think she likes it better which is pretty ironic considering I was so hell bent on NOT using jarred. Do you know how much that frozen stuff cost? Pretty much $1/tbls. I also didn't really want to load her up with a bunch of cereal but she eats it and that's the ultimate goal. Get her to swallow and then switch it up. I was holding back so much at first but I think we're both getting the hang of this. I'm still waiting every 3 days to introduce new foods though. How long does that last because this is turning into a long process!
Right now Sadie is eating as follows:
Breakfast: 8 oz bottle
Lunch: Cereal with fruit or veggie and 6 oz bottle
Dinner: Cereal with Fruit or veggie and 6 oz bottle
Bed: 8 oz bottle
+ Sadie has been getting up in the night AGAIN and is taking another 8 oz (not every night)
She's eating: Rice Cereal, Pears, Banana, Blueberry, Carrots, Peas, Green beans, Avacodo, and Sweet potato.
We've tried Baby Mum Mum's but 90% is spit out with a slight favour for Banana flavour.
We've tried Turkey and it was expulsively rejected. Poor Sadie.
Tomorrow is a new food day and I think we'll try corn. Rib Eye steak will be in a few YEARS! Seriously. These women want their kids to grow up too quickly!
-- Post From My iPhone
A December mom just posted a pic of her son chewing on a steak bone!!
It was under the heading "what do you feed your baby" and the responses varied from purees to Mr. Rib Eye who took top prize for OMG that seems so WRONG.
Sadie is so so far behind.
She isn't picky, she just doesn't care. Everything is more interesting (and tastier) than eating, especially things like her socks or her bib. Sticking her finger in her mouth or up her nose is also a fun meal time activity.
Over the last few weeks we've really picked things up. I can't buy our frozen organic purees here so we've switched to organic jarred. I think she likes it better which is pretty ironic considering I was so hell bent on NOT using jarred. Do you know how much that frozen stuff cost? Pretty much $1/tbls. I also didn't really want to load her up with a bunch of cereal but she eats it and that's the ultimate goal. Get her to swallow and then switch it up. I was holding back so much at first but I think we're both getting the hang of this. I'm still waiting every 3 days to introduce new foods though. How long does that last because this is turning into a long process!
Right now Sadie is eating as follows:
Breakfast: 8 oz bottle
Lunch: Cereal with fruit or veggie and 6 oz bottle
Dinner: Cereal with Fruit or veggie and 6 oz bottle
Bed: 8 oz bottle
+ Sadie has been getting up in the night AGAIN and is taking another 8 oz (not every night)
She's eating: Rice Cereal, Pears, Banana, Blueberry, Carrots, Peas, Green beans, Avacodo, and Sweet potato.
We've tried Baby Mum Mum's but 90% is spit out with a slight favour for Banana flavour.
We've tried Turkey and it was expulsively rejected. Poor Sadie.
Tomorrow is a new food day and I think we'll try corn. Rib Eye steak will be in a few YEARS! Seriously. These women want their kids to grow up too quickly!
-- Post From My iPhone
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Baby proofing
I'm still up north but I'm planning on returning home, hopefully, next week.
Since the major reno has almost been completed we are going to start making our new house our home. Part of that will be Baby proofing.
There are a lot of products out there and big money could be spent. Just throwing this out there wondering what others are doing?
The good news is that 100% of the outlets in our house are tamper proof thanks to the re-wire. Don't say we didn't get our money's worth out of that 14k job. lol
We know we need at least one baby gate for the top of our stairs (down) on the main floor. We'll likely get a second for the stairs down to the basement once Sadie is walking and may come in the front door on her own. Until then the main floor gate covers that risk.
We're also thinking of gating off the kitchen so Sadie will have the run of the living room, dining room and hall without worrying about kitchen hazards.
We want to make the house safe without going overboard. Afterall, Sadie will be cared for in our home while we are at work. She'll be spending a lot of time in the house!
We're pretty much starting from scratch so if anyone has products they love, please let us know.
Btw, in response to my previous entry - I'm still angry about it. However you're right that part of my issue is that I still, 8 months later, am completely heartbroken that I was unable to BF Sadie. I hate formula. Hate it. Hate it. Hate it. It embarasses me that I have to use it because I think people judge women who do not BF. Being chased out of a store and being accused of stealing is just icing on the cake.
-- Post From My iPhone
Since the major reno has almost been completed we are going to start making our new house our home. Part of that will be Baby proofing.
There are a lot of products out there and big money could be spent. Just throwing this out there wondering what others are doing?
The good news is that 100% of the outlets in our house are tamper proof thanks to the re-wire. Don't say we didn't get our money's worth out of that 14k job. lol
We know we need at least one baby gate for the top of our stairs (down) on the main floor. We'll likely get a second for the stairs down to the basement once Sadie is walking and may come in the front door on her own. Until then the main floor gate covers that risk.
We're also thinking of gating off the kitchen so Sadie will have the run of the living room, dining room and hall without worrying about kitchen hazards.
We want to make the house safe without going overboard. Afterall, Sadie will be cared for in our home while we are at work. She'll be spending a lot of time in the house!
We're pretty much starting from scratch so if anyone has products they love, please let us know.
Btw, in response to my previous entry - I'm still angry about it. However you're right that part of my issue is that I still, 8 months later, am completely heartbroken that I was unable to BF Sadie. I hate formula. Hate it. Hate it. Hate it. It embarasses me that I have to use it because I think people judge women who do not BF. Being chased out of a store and being accused of stealing is just icing on the cake.
-- Post From My iPhone
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Major Vent
D says I'm overreacting but I don't care. This is a
sensitive topic.
Fucking formula.
We had to drive into the city today to buy more. As usual it was a hassel because the brand I use is always sold out and today was no exception. We did our grocery shopping, I fed Sadie in the store, and then we checked out.
This is when I was accused TWICE of stealing formula because I had my used canister in the basket under my stroller. At the cash register the cashier received a phone call instructing her to check. I told her it was mine and said they didn't even have any on the shelf for sale. I was then made to open the canister. I did. I was pissed off but fair enough. This is when I became livid. Not twently steps from the cashier I was stopped by a plain clothes security gaurs who asked me if "I forgot to pay for something". Again, open up the canister, which had a walmart sticker on it, and show it was empty. Again stating they didn't even have that formula on the shelf for sale. I asked to speak to the manager who refused to apologise because he said I was never accused of stealing. Right.
We returned $150 worth of groceries to that store. Over a $24.99 can of formula that they couldn't have sold me to begin with.
We're now at Walmart, our third stop looking for formula, and they have it. They always do because poor people like me feed their babies formula and apparently also often steal it.
BF moms can bring their breasts with them to feed their baby on demand but when I bring my baby's food into a store I get treated like a criminal.
-- Post From My iPhone
sensitive topic.
Fucking formula.
We had to drive into the city today to buy more. As usual it was a hassel because the brand I use is always sold out and today was no exception. We did our grocery shopping, I fed Sadie in the store, and then we checked out.
This is when I was accused TWICE of stealing formula because I had my used canister in the basket under my stroller. At the cash register the cashier received a phone call instructing her to check. I told her it was mine and said they didn't even have any on the shelf for sale. I was then made to open the canister. I did. I was pissed off but fair enough. This is when I became livid. Not twently steps from the cashier I was stopped by a plain clothes security gaurs who asked me if "I forgot to pay for something". Again, open up the canister, which had a walmart sticker on it, and show it was empty. Again stating they didn't even have that formula on the shelf for sale. I asked to speak to the manager who refused to apologise because he said I was never accused of stealing. Right.
We returned $150 worth of groceries to that store. Over a $24.99 can of formula that they couldn't have sold me to begin with.
We're now at Walmart, our third stop looking for formula, and they have it. They always do because poor people like me feed their babies formula and apparently also often steal it.
BF moms can bring their breasts with them to feed their baby on demand but when I bring my baby's food into a store I get treated like a criminal.
-- Post From My iPhone
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