Baby Yoga

Today was Zoë's first day of baby yoga. It's also about a week since Kate's gone off of dairy in an effort to help Zoë be less gassy. Also, Zoë seems to be feeding like crazy in preparation for another growth spurt.

These things happen to be related.

After Kate went off dairy Zoë became generally less gassy (we'd like to think those two things could be related), and stopped producing poopy diapers. It isn't unheard of for babies to go a few days without pooping, so we weren't too concerned as she was both happy and extremely well hydrated.

In any case, apparently there's something the yoga class teaches that's called "digestion massage". It helps with the end part of digestion. This is generally a good thing, except that Zoë had a bit of a backlog which was rather accelerated to where it overflowed her diaper, her onesie, mom's pants, mom's shirt, a changing pad, and a packet of wipes.

I'm told there was a nice shower once everyone got home.

Running tally for the evening

As of 10:00pm

1 fuzzy blue bathrobe (baby poop)
1 hair towel (baby poop)
Carpet near bathroom (dog blood)
1 button down shirt (baby poop)
1 baby bathtub (baby poop and spit up)
1 Penny Arcade "Div" t-shirt (spit up)
Carpet near bed (dog blood)
1 pair of pants (spit up)
1 pair of jeans (shower nozzle overspray)
Purple wrap (spit up)
Carpet near dresser (dog blood)
Top blanket for the bed (baby poop)
Brand new nursing tank (spit up)
Liver (bourbon)


(the dog is fine, he had a minor altercation involving the cat's claws and his ear)

Silly doggy

New Rule: baby wipes go into a container that Porter (our black Labrador) can't get into.

Porter tends to walk when he poops, and my wife's taken to describing his current predicament as "diarrhea odysseys".

IC Tots

It's official.
My kid's swing is now lame.

Pandora Fail!

I generally like Pandora. It was a godsend in the hospital as my phone effectively contained several thousand hours of music and good music made the hospital room seem a bit more like home.

But every once in a while it falls down.

I'd created a station that typically plays music that's good for falling asleep to (started with Dead Can Dance and Loreena McKennitt). This worked pretty well until we added the Twin Peaks theme and one or two tracks off the Edward Scissorhands soundtrack. Suddenly, Pandora decided that any movie soundtrack was fair game.

King Kong? Exciting! Thumbs down.
Avatar film score? Not relaxing. Thumbs down.
Lord of the Rings soundtrack? Bombastic! Thumbs down.
(Also, why isn't there a "This song belongs on my other station" button. It's not bad music, just completely wrong for the station)

Regardless of how many we gave a thumbs down to it kept digging up new movie soundtracks.

After Kate was woken up early this morning by the theme to Star Wars I have removed all the soundtrack entries from the station.

Update:
I've been informed that Pandora does now have a Move-To-Another-Station button! Did they add that when I wasn't paying attention or did they always have that?

Perhaps I should seek psychiatric help

Am I the only one who finds it kind of satisfying when you see your baby spit up a whole lot. Not one of those dainty spit-ups that you dab at with a burp cloth, but one of those outfit soaking fountains. No? Maybe it was because great-grandma was the one holding her at the time.

Lies, Damn lies, and Babies

A few baby related things I've found to be less than true:

"Cats will suffocate/eat your baby."

I'm not sure where this anti-cat sentiment came from. Given some of the bizarre cat myths I've heard over the years I'm inclined to believe that the same traits that lead to cat hatred also lead to making up stories about your opponents. Feel free to extrapolate this to which ever political groups you hate.

So far our cat has sniffed our baby (with disdain) and has occasionally had to be removed from various pieces of baby furniture. Given the high price and low quality of most cat furniture I'm seriously considering getting an extra foam changing pad for a cat bed.

"Your car seat is easy and intuitive to install."

Apparently this is only true for certain models of SUV in the 2015 model year. It was most certainly not true for our 2001 model year car (sorry, we're bad consumers who buy long lasting cars and then perform maintenance on them. I know it's really terrible that we're doing that to the economy and it would be better for everyone if we bought a car that would need replacing in 5 years. If it makes you feel better you can come over and have some of my homebrew beer that I've made with money I wasn't spending on car payments).

"You can soothe a child and type at the same time."

Ok, this is one I keep telling myself. It totally does not work. My wife's holding the baby as I type this.

"Once your infant is fully asleep with floppy limbs it will be nearly impossible to wake her"

Lies! Any attempt to fool around with mommy instantly wakes up the baby.

And now:
Gratuitous adorable baby picture