When hormonal instability hits, all my emotions, each in a different saturated color, merge into a raging moving sea. Each emotion deepens and exaggerates itself in an attempt to dominate the others, which often result in my being caught between two currents of emotions or being pulled into the darkest core of one.
"Just ride it out, babe. Once it's over, you're usually exhausted but calm," reported the usual bystander/victim of the hormone hurricane named Kate.
Thank you, Bill, for always being there and your persistent attempts to throw me a rope.
Thank you, the Martin girls, for your understanding and words of encouragement.
Our friends, the Kleinsmiths, moved back to Bloomington at the end of last year. Brian is in school earning a degree to become a high school Chinese teacher. Kitty is a stay-at-home mom who's currently expecting their second baby Liam. Sabrina (at 5 months old in the first picture) is now almost 2 years old and getting music lessons from her dad.
When they learned that we're expecting, Kitty asked her mom to put together some of Sabrina's baby stuff to give us. Since we don't know the gender of the Little Peanut yet, Kitty's mom has picked out mostly gender-neutral colors for us.
Thank you, Brian, Kitty, Sabrina, and Kitty's mom, for your generosity.
We went to pick them up at Kitty's mom's place yesterday. We got a bag of clothes, a baby bathtub, and a bottle sterilizing machine.
When we got home, I moved some stuff out to make room for the baby clothes. There came another rookie-mommy moment: I have never held (or folded) clothes this tiny. Nuenue can't even fit in them (he might be able to if we shaved him). They are absolutely adorable!!!! I felt like I was back in my girlish doll-playing childhood.
We got about a dozen of these kimonos (robes). Some long-sleeve ones and some short-sleeve ones.
There are also about a handful of these... jumpers (?!) The one on the left features the Pooh bear, and the one on the right has little ducklings between the buttons.Now here comes a question, what are these baggie-looking things for? We got two pairs of them. I think they're used to wrap up the little fists; Bill thinks they're for the feet.
Well, moms (and dads too if any of you would like to post an answer)?!
7 comments:
hand mitts! they go over bebe's hands so that their teeny tiny nails don't scratch up their face. it can be hard to trim their nails so that they can't scratch- and their nails grow super fast. those little mitts aren't necessary but oh-so-helpful (as long as your bebe isn't a finger/ thumb sucker). congrats on your fist bag of loot!
fist= first (sorry!)
Must. Clip. Nails. Noted! Guess I can always ask Juli what her secret is 'cause Maggie's got perfect nails.
Thanks, Rae Ann.
It is hard to cut their nails, you have to be very carefyl so you dont cutthe fingers and cause them to get infected and puss like I did with Jed.I learned you can bite the nails and you wont hurt them.This is when they are newborns, later you will beable to use the little clippers.
hormones shmormones. they come and go day by day but you, i, and the little peanut are here to stay. i didn't mean for that to rhyme.
Good job son! Keep it up.
hehe! Kate, this is so fun to follow. Yep, Rae had it. Natti was always scratching up her face. It's strange because those tiny nails seem so papery thin, yet they leave such a mark! I clip Maggie's with the baby nail clippers, very, very carefully, and also the bite and tear method... again, very, very carefully.
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