What We've Learned - Two Month Update


 Well, we've survived to two months!!!  We are sooooo much older and wiser now.  Where should we start!

The twizzle version of abdominal activity

Court drunk on the sauce

• The Pizz is rocking and rolling.  She is all over the place, and has consolidated her naps into one (much to our chagrin!)  We are totally running out of entertaining options for her.  Thank goodness she can entertain herself!
• The Dude is totally chill.  If it wasn't for the roller coaster ride that has been her GERD, you would have forgotten that he was there.
• The Princess is a total fussbucket.  She has developed a multitude to crazy sounds.  She also cries ad infinatum (I can't spell Latin...) and almost immediately until you put a bottle of sauce in her mouth.
• We totally totally hate infant heart/apnea monitors.  Unbelievable!  The countless times, in the midde of the night, that that freaking thing would give a "loose connection" was unbearable.  I almost threw it out of our new window.  Poor Court might have a permanent mark of the chest band...  (No, not really)
• New Nicknames: The Dude, the Prince, Mr Chill.  But basically the Dude wins.
• New Nicknames: Princess Fusserella, Fusselstiltskin, Fussmaster Flash, the Mouse, KP2 or K2, miniKemper.
• New Nicknames: the Pizz.  (I mean can you really mess with perfection!)
• Dietary Habits:
• Pizz: basically a See-Food diet.  Sometimes you cannot tell where she puts it... until you lift her out of the highchair.   Dislikes: broccoli, fish, tuna salad.
• Fusserella: "Eats to live".  This baby wants sauce and she wants it yesterday.  She wants it so bad, that she cannot contain it all in her mouth.  When she takes a breather (maybe once or twice per 4 oz), there is a ring of sauce around her mouth and running down her chin.  Once she started to reek of old curdled milk that had settled into her neck crevices and shirt.
• Dude: "Lives to eat".  He could pretty much take it or leave it.  No rush.  Just sips away.  Also has to be burped like every 5 minutes to ensure that he doesn't get bored.
• DQ2.0: A well-oiled solid machine!  Unbelievable
• Industrial strength sauce producer:  Running almost nonstop these days.  At one point, I think the machine sputtered out "Help me" during a rare pause.  It's not called industrial strength for nothing.
• The Editor's sleep habits....  pretty poor.  Only now slightly improving.
• Ghosts in the bedroom.  I am absolutely sure of it.  We have only in the last couple of days begun sleeping back in our bedroom.  To which, we have the baby monitor up as well as my alarm clock to wake at 5am.  The last two nights, both machines have been inexplicably powered off at the most inopportune times (mainly 4-5 in the morning, when the DQ is in the Nursery 2.0 and needs help from the Editor).  I don't know how it occurs, and could only be explained as the ghost of Mr Schwartz.  He must not want me awake during those hours.  I cannot understand why.  The DQ points the blame squarely on my shoulders.  Alas.
• Au-pairs are awesome!  I don't know why we didn't get on earlier!  Everyone should get one.  I think I saw Ham on the Internet yesterday looking for one... Although he has taken a serious shine to her too.  He loves his new afternoon walking partner, as well as the return of his suede couch!
• Paci fever!  Catch it
• The Pizz still has it, but we're working on it.
• The Dude usually will take it and go to sleep.
• Princess Fusserella will only take it on her terms, when she gosh-darn-feels like.  Most times she takes a couple of chugs, and then innocently spits it out.  Occasionally, if you try to push the issue, she will raise the ante... She'll gag herself before taking it!  Yup!  Almost once a week, I get caught with this trap.  Sort of scary
• Poop poop and more poop
• Pizz: regular.  I think there was a whole undigested banana in there once, she ate it so fast!
• Fussmaster Flash: fairly regular.  Whew!  Multiple wiper
• The Dude:  Maybe once every 3 days or so.  Yup.... his GI tract is on Dude-time as well!  wow!!
• Photos...  Well, we're taking a smattering here and there.  The posts are coming... It's not like this is not fun and exciting for us... just the days/hours/minutes are filled with other stuff...  Eventually this stuff will get out there...

Ok.  Enough for now.  Time to go to bed!



Family nap time