The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

[flea]

The good: Casper was ogling mr. flea's banana (and no, there's really no better way to say that, is there?), so he mashed up a piece and gave it to her on his finger. He said she made a face, but ate it. So that's TWO solid foods. Also, clearly not allergic to bananas. (Is anyone?)

Also, she's so charming when we go out shopping. Yesterday I walked over to this store I'd never been to - it sells clothes and shoes and girly stuff and also yarn, and hosts knitting classes. It's tiny and jammed so I spent a lot of time checking it out, and it was the perfect "look at stuff" store for a baby - all full of shiny. Unfortunately for me, Dansko maryjanes not on sale in my size, and Eileen Fisher at 20-50% off is still way too much. (Must find a good used clothes store for grownups). She sits in the sling and smiles at the salespeople and everyonme thinks I have the perfect baby! Very gratifying.

The bad: In the course of a 15-minute conversation mostly about her house renovations, my mother managed to:
1. Scold me for using the booginator. Why? "It invades her space." Dude. She loves it. If you had an annoying booger and couldn't blow your own nose yet, you'd love it if someone aspirated it for you, wouldn't you?
2. Ask "is that baby sleeping in her own bed yet?" Nope. Haven't even tried. Don't really want to.
3. Say "I was on the phone with Cousin's Wife, and she said, 'oh, Cousin's Baby (age 15 months) is up from her nap, but she knows she's not supposed to come out of her room yet.' Now THAT'S a well-trained baby!" Well, mine is a little young for training, and frankly that's not my goal anyway!

The ugly: She's started biting when she's had enough nursing. No teeth yet, but she clamps down hard and pulls. OW. I say "Ow!" and "No!" and she grins. Har har, kiddo.

Resolved: I brought Casper's quilt to work, so I can quilt it at lunch, so I will finish some time before Casper enters first grade. I will no longer play around on the internet during lunch; I will quilt during lunch, and play around on the internet when I should be working. (It's a gorgeous quilt. Even though I can only sew 2-dimensional things, I'm good!)

Comments

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

Sounds like grandmothering as back-seat-driver, to me. You are allowed to simulate small baby-centric emergencies to get you off the phone when she starts going into that mode....

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[orthoepy.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah.

There's an Eileen Fisher OUTLET by me and it's still too freakin' expensive. Although a pair of pants I bought there for $50, blenching, have held up really well. I say, try Ebay.

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

I will no longer play around on the internet during lunch; I will quilt during lunch, and play around on the internet when I should be working.

Excellent plan.

[makaidiver.livejournal.com]

I've been wanted to ask someone how those booginator things work and lo! an opening (I have a cat with one continually drippy or stuffed-up nostril and a q-tip is too big). You deflate it, stick it in, and let it inflate? How do you clean it?

Also, booginator is great coinage.

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[burrell.livejournal.com]

I LOVE the term booginator!

I am so five years old.

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[casperflea.livejournal.com]

Booginators are available cheap at any baby store; they probably have them at your grocery. The one we got from the hospital works best; it's bigger and has a littler nozzle. It works like a turkey baster - deflate, insert, allow to inflate. It takes several tries to get a booger out - I don't know how patient your cat is! I suppose it could be run through a dishwasher; otherwise, soak in warm soapy water to loosen attached stuff and then vigorously suck and spit said water. I think that gets it clean enough.

[burrell.livejournal.com]

Oh we have a booginator, it's just I was calling it an extractor. Clearly the wrong name. We used it all the time when she had a wee head cold. Nowadays I find a Q-tip is more useful for removing the odd booger or so.