Sun 4 Feb 2007
Things I Have Learned This Weekend
Posted by Liza under Personal
It has been very educational, this “single mom for a weekend” business. For example, I have learned:
- We have a climber. The note from school on Friday says that he loves climbing. Today, I put him in out extra-deep bathtub while I was brushing my teeth, and he managed to do a pull-up on the window sill. After church, I risked putting him in there again while I changed clothes, and he climbed up onto the seat. No more bathtub-as-playpen for Noah.
- And a very tall smarty-pants. Noah can reach and open the door handles in his room.
- Noah can also reach anything within 4 inches of the edge of the counter. We have a half-wall that is only 6 inches deep.
- Teething still sucks.
- Small boys can eat an astonishing amount of food: Today alone, Noah ate nearly a cup of cheerios, a yogurt, a jar of vegetables, a grape tomato, 1/4 of a large apple, 1/3 cup of pumpkin-chicken sauce, 1/3 cup pasta with another 2 tablespoons of pumpkin-chicken sauce, a bit less than 1/4 cup vanilla creme brule, and small amounts of shredded cheese, cooked carrots, and cooked broccoli. I think he ate more yesterday. I fear his teenage years.
Well, time to get Noah’s bag ready for school tomorrow. And clean up all the tupperware that has migrated all over the house. And take out the unbelievably toxic garbage that all that food produces in the form of poopy diapers.
February 6th, 2007 at 12:41 am
1: Hi to your Mom if she’s not left yet.
2: Hope Jill’s home soon! And that she stayed moderately dry. And that she met Prince!
3: Pumpkin-chicken sauce? Actually sounds good. Recipe? I introduced lentils today and might work up to meat when he’s nine months.
4: Hope you have furniture straps for your bookcases/tall dressers.
5: This may be TMI, but we keep the changing table in the bathroom and keep down the smell/toxicity an incremental bit by just dumping the poopies in the toilet before throwing diaper in the bin.
6: How did you get him to like broccoli? Is the try-a-food-12-times thing not an exaggeration? (It’s weird, I eat broccoli like three times a week, so the flavor’s been in the milk.)
7: Pumping countdown?
February 6th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
1) Mom left a week ago. But it was great having her here!
2) Jill’s home! And she was pretty soaked during the game.
3) Super-easy Pumpkin-Chicken Sauce:
* 1 can pumpkin puree
* 1-2 cans chicken broth, depending on how thick you like your pasta sauces
* 1-2 tsp sage, 1-2 tsp herbs du provence, salt & pepper
* Leftover chicken, chopped fine, if desired
Heat all on low flame until bubbling at the edges, stirring often. I like it on a hearty pasta that Noah can manage, like half-penne.
4) The main bookshelves are all bolted together and have about 70 linear feet of books, so I think they’ll be too heavy for Noah to pull down. The others have doors on the bottom shelves.
5) Good ideas!!!
6) Noah just was willing to try the broccoli. But he still pushes banana out of his mouth with the look of, “Mom, are you kidding about this nasty stuff?” Go figure.
7) 3 more days! 3 more days! Then no more pumping! At least not regularly! At a year, Noah will get whole milk at day care. We aren’t weaning from nursing yet, but I am weaning from pumping!!!! And I am so ready for that.