A quick note as to the Boston Marathon bombing and following events: We were in CT driving home from NJ on Monday when the explosions happened. We live about 40 minutes west of Boston. We are not a direct suburb, and therefore remained out of harm's way during the manhunt. Todd works a little closer to the city, but his work wasn't included in the shelter in place lockdown, so he went to work Friday. We have friends and family who were on lockdown on Friday and we are thankful that they remained safe; also thankful that this week was spring break for our area and the logistics of school closures weren't added to the list of potential hazards on Friday. Thanks to the Boston Police, the various armed forces, and citizens who helped this week. It's been crazy around here.
Nina's a bit difficult to photograph. She sees the camera (okay, she sees the iPad or my phone, very rarely our expensive "fancy" DSLR camera that we purchased specifically to get awesome pictures of our children) and gets SO EXCITED and flops and dances and reaches for whichever electronic I have.
We are going strong in our cloth diapering experience. Love, love, LOVE them this time around. We even took them with us to NJ last weekend and it worked out well. I think, though, the next time we travel I'm going to invest in a large zippered hanging wetbag. Just for transportation purposes. When we got back, our clean diapers had a funk from being in the same duffle bag as our dirty, separately bagged, diapers. Not a big deal, since it was diaper laundry day anyway. My preferred diaper is the Imagine AIO, followed quickly by the BumGenius Stay Dry AIO, followed by Best Bottom covers with gDiaper inserts. We will be investing in some hemp or cotton prefolds for the summer for a more breathable bum in our humid climate. I have a couple of Charlie Banana diapers, but they're nearly twice as much as my Imagine diapers, also I'm not too fond of the pocket style. I have a single Gro-via and I adore it, but it's not Todd's favorite. I would like more. They're super trim under her little jeans. My only concern with the Imagine diapers is that they won't quite make it weight wise through potty training. Of course, I could be wrong. Nina is still only on the middle rise and is about 17lbs and it's holding strong. I'm officially obsessed. I would only be happier if someone were to get a gift certificate to my favorite online retailer :)
Jack's been struggling with sharing lately. He's had to have the sharing talk at daycare a couple of times. We think it's because Nina is more mobile, yet still somewhat blobby, so he can just take toys from her and she rarely cares. We're working on this, but it's hard without a second kid that cares yet. He's wonderful most of the time, but we certainly have our moments. We skipped the terrible twos and are heading full on into the terrifying threes. He limp noodles in stores, screams, throws things. Oy. On the other hand, he still snuggles, is relatively agreeable. LOVES his sister. He struggles when she's napping because all he wants to do is "pway wif Eeny!"
I'm sure I'll update next month, when I have STATS for Nina. Hopefully sometime in between. Maybe. Don't get your hopes up...
Now, back to her cuteness: Sweet pie, Squish (surprisingly our favorite nickname), Bug, Een, Eeny! Nina goes by many names. She is active, crazy, she screeches...a lot (big brother never did, we are learning to deal with a loud baby...), she blows raspberries, says "mmmmm", and has discovered her toes.
In terms of gross motor skills, Nina sits, steamrolls across the room, and can go from sitting to belly without belly flopping on the floor. Nina does a modified army crawl; she can do arm over arm, but she also does a sort of rocking back and forth crawl. She's working on getting her butt and belly up in the air. As for fine motor skills, she's working on her pincer grasp (YAY! Almost puff time!) and follows fingers, toys, etc when they're dangled in front of her. She's skilled, that's for sure!
Baby comparison time:
Jack: rolled back-to-belly at almost 6 months, sat unassisted at exactly 6 months, and began army crawling at 7 months. He said his first word (MAMA!!!) at 5 months.
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We are going strong in our cloth diapering experience. Love, love, LOVE them this time around. We even took them with us to NJ last weekend and it worked out well. I think, though, the next time we travel I'm going to invest in a large zippered hanging wetbag. Just for transportation purposes. When we got back, our clean diapers had a funk from being in the same duffle bag as our dirty, separately bagged, diapers. Not a big deal, since it was diaper laundry day anyway. My preferred diaper is the Imagine AIO, followed quickly by the BumGenius Stay Dry AIO, followed by Best Bottom covers with gDiaper inserts. We will be investing in some hemp or cotton prefolds for the summer for a more breathable bum in our humid climate. I have a couple of Charlie Banana diapers, but they're nearly twice as much as my Imagine diapers, also I'm not too fond of the pocket style. I have a single Gro-via and I adore it, but it's not Todd's favorite. I would like more. They're super trim under her little jeans. My only concern with the Imagine diapers is that they won't quite make it weight wise through potty training. Of course, I could be wrong. Nina is still only on the middle rise and is about 17lbs and it's holding strong. I'm officially obsessed. I would only be happier if someone were to get a gift certificate to my favorite online retailer :)
Jack's been struggling with sharing lately. He's had to have the sharing talk at daycare a couple of times. We think it's because Nina is more mobile, yet still somewhat blobby, so he can just take toys from her and she rarely cares. We're working on this, but it's hard without a second kid that cares yet. He's wonderful most of the time, but we certainly have our moments. We skipped the terrible twos and are heading full on into the terrifying threes. He limp noodles in stores, screams, throws things. Oy. On the other hand, he still snuggles, is relatively agreeable. LOVES his sister. He struggles when she's napping because all he wants to do is "pway wif Eeny!"
I'm sure I'll update next month, when I have STATS for Nina. Hopefully sometime in between. Maybe. Don't get your hopes up...
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