No pants Noah

Noah had a blow-out poop this morning just as we were about to start our hour walk to daycare. The poop was all over his pants. It was Monday morning, I hadn't had any coffee, I was dealing with poop, and I didn't have any extra pants for him. Anyway, I figured he'd be fine going to daycare without any pants on because the daycare lady has extra changes of clothes for him. So I just piled blankets on his legs for the walk over.

We get there late and with a baby with no pants, so I explain to the daycare lady what happened, which she seems to understand. 

Grant picks up Noah at the end of the day. Noah still has NO PANTS! He is wearing exactly the same thing I dropped him off in. And the lady says, "Tell Mom (i.e. me) he need pants. It's not summer." What?! Seriously?! First of all, it's not like I am in the habit of dropping off my baby with no pants on. Clearly something different happened today, which I explained! Second, you have extra clothes. Change the poor kid's clothes if you think it is too cold. Jeez!

Tracking napping

We had a great weekend with Noah. He was super happy. I think a big part of this was that he took good long naps. Naps are key. We've been reading about sleep training to help Noah get better with sleeping. So far we've been following the plan by Elizabeth Pantley, who does a 'no-cry' sleep solution. I'd say it has been working with moderate success, the failure being that we haven't been super strict about following it. It's not that I'm against 'crying it out', and I think I'm prepared to do it, if and when it comes to that. But until he is eating something besides breast milk, I'm cutting the kid some slack in the sleep department. Anyway, Grant took the initiative to read this book about how to get your baby to nap better and he kept a nap diary to track Noah's sleeping habits from Friday through Sunday. Completely anal, but it helped so much! I guess Noah did have a sleeping pattern, but we just hadn't really been paying attention to it. Once we saw what the pattern was, it made putting him down so much easier! And look how adorably happy he is in the picture!

6 hours, I'm feeling good!

Yay Noah-Big-Boy-Five-Month-Old! He slept for 6 hours without eating. I actually heard him wake up twice, but he put himself back to sleep. I needed this. I've been hurting a bit for sleep lately, and I need to do some serious thinking at work, so a clear head is nice to have. I hope this is the start of a new trend and not a freakish blip on the Noah Sleep-o-Meter.

Noah's 5 month-iversary

Happy 5 months, Noah Silly-Face!

Daycare updates

The 9-month old baby at Noah's daycare left yesterday. So now it is Noah and the two toddlers. Grant said he saw the baby's parents saying good-bye to our daycare woman and she seemed really sad. I will say, it is clear to me that this lady really cares about the kids she watches, which makes me feel better about leaving Noah with her.

The baby left because they finally made it into the UCI daycare system. Noah is also on this waiting list. We have been on this waiting list since I was 8-weeks pregnant. That means we have been on the list for 1-year. I just went in the other day and there are still about 20 people ahead of Noah. Twenty people! Twenty people have to leave UCI before Noah can go there. And this doesn't include the fact that really poor people and people who already have children going to a UCI daycare facility get priority, i.e. get to skip over us. So, I'm guessing we'll finally reach the top of the list sometime next fall or winter...when we will likely (and hopefully) not be at UCI anymore. Fantastic! This situation infuriates me because UCI just redid the Infant/Toddler daycare center last year. If the waitlist is nearly 2-years long, why wouldn't they have accounted for this and hired more staff?! Arg! Daycare, again, the bane of my existance.

Movie, Mistake, and Time Change

Noah experienced his first baby-sitting session outside of daycare this weekend. Our awesome friends, Greg and Vivan (who braved cat allergies to watch Noah), took care of him so we could watch The Watchmen. Even before Noah was born, Grant had set this movie as the first baby-free date we would have.

Greg and Vivan said Noah was good, so I'm glad about that. He didn't sleep well by himself, per usual, thus it looks like they had to hold him to make him sleep (see evidence below). But they said they would baby-sit again, so I'm hoping that means the experience wasn't traumatic overall.
Even though I knew Noah was in good hands, I still held onto my cell phone the entire movie so I wouldn't miss it vibrating. I need to be eased out of my paranoia, give me some time.

Movie was good. Some lady brought her approximately 10 year old son and 5 year old daughter to it. They sat behind us. At one point Grant stood up and told the lady that he had read the comic and that it is super violent. That caused the lady to take her daughter out of the theater, but not her son. I'm not judging, because I feel I was allowed to watch quite violent/sexually suggestive stuff as a kid and have grown up not to be some weird deviant, but definitely I was more uncomfortable during the sex scenes knowing a 10 year old boy was behind me.

In other news, I made a mistake this weekend. I accidentally put a disposable diaper (a clean one, thankfully), into the washing machine. This makes a big mess, do not try at home. Grant spent quite a while cleaning up my mistake. Note-To-Self, try not to put diapers too close to the dirty clothes pile. Or better Note-To-Self, try to put dirty clothes into a hamper and not on floor in the first place.

Finally, Noah had to adjust to Spring Forward. He handled it pretty well. Luckily for us, he was super tired last night and went to bed at 5:30 pm (which would be like 4:30 pm pre-time change for him), so maybe this will help with the transition. We'll see over the next couple of days. This is yet another reason why I wish there weren't time changes, it's hard on children and adults alike.

Noah rolled over!

Yay! Noah rolled over from his back to his front today (on purpose)!