kid-isms

ethanisms for today:

Mom can you make your breastmilk into cheese?

(While I am using the restroom he is shouting through the door wanting to have a conversation) Mom I know you can multitask!

We are doing work with fractions and decimals at home this summer as well as cursive writing. Texas public schools are so obsessed with TAKS that they leave gaping holes in some topics. Today I was trying to explain what 7/8 actually means when you convert it to a decimal. So you have seven apples and eight hungry children. Each kid only gets a fraction of an apple-thus a fraction or a decimal of an apple. Ethan then decided that perhaps a more fitting example was eight hungry sharks and seven helpless children. Each shark doesn't get a whole kid. This then led into a discussion of how to approprioately fragment the seven children and we moved to a discussion of plato's world with perfect separation rather than our imperfect world.

Nyjah is six weeks old now. There are tentative smiles for dad and ethan as well as the closet and some of my friends but none for mom. I am the milk provider, not worthy of smiles. This morning he woke up cuddled in my arm nook after his morning routine of a thousand farts and grunts. His little eyes peeked open and he began to stretch every part of his tiny anatomy. His eyes rolled around and widened and closed, squinted and squished. His mouth got big and little and round, then pursed and puckered, and suddenly a little tongue emerged and got very long and then disapperaed into it's little cave again. His cheeks puffed and wrinkled and little lines became etched into his tiny, hairy brow. His head rolled in little circles, arms flexed and grasped and his whole body extended as far back as it would go, little legs pointed and fixed.

Then he relaxed and opened his yoga-asian-wise old man eyeballs and looked at me and milk.

colic log

2.5 ml of baby's bliss knocked little one out. There is no alcohol so what's up? turns out ginger in large doses is a sedative. No wonder all those testimonials talk about babies sleeping through the night.

Nonetheless ginger does seem to exhibit cholinergic activity in the GI track via muscarinic receptors. Perhaps it enhances stomach emtying or regulates contractions thus preventing reflux. Thus the ginger alone could explain the happy baby tummies. This is also supported by the happy tummy the day I ate ginger bread pancakes. Second hand ginger?

yesterday I tried a 0.25 ml dose after he got fussy. I try and wait till he is is a good amount of pain, clenching his fists and gnashing his teeth, also nursing, pulling away then nursing again. It seems like a bad idea to give the kid meds if he doesn't need them. The small dose seemed to help a little-maybe?-but didn't knock him out. But then maybe it wasn't a bad day to begin with.

Today should be a great test day. I ate thai food and iced tea for lunch. I am some sort of masochist. At 4 he got fussy and was cleching, biting, and scratching by 5:10 along with squels of pain now and then. Constant holding as he screams when put down. Tried 0.5 ml.

It's 6 pm-we are sleeping!

colic

It's 6:30 and he isn't crying. his legs are softly folded up on my side, not stiffly stuck out in pain. His little hands are relaxed and sweet, not grasping and scratching. When he nurses he is sweet and gentle and falls it a milk induced coma with little bits of milky, sweet drool falling out of his mouth. Very much unlike the frantic, jaw clenching, chomping that quickly gets him a pacifier rather than a breast. Now he eats a whole meal rather than eating and pulling away after a few bites to cry.

Ike was colicky for the first six months and was a vomit projecting, miserable child until almost a year. Lets hope little nicholas doesn't suffer so.

Ginger pancakes for lunch.