February 1st, 2011 by Busy Mommy

Goodbye Safety pins from Nolan’s swaddling days (first two weeks of his life)…Goodbye receiving blankets that I used every day for swaddling, nursing, keeping Nolan warm, wiping his spit ups and generally cleaning up after him.  He’s moved beyond them and I haven’t needed them in awhile. Goodbye rancid diaper cream that I made when Nolan was only 3 days old.  I did use it and it smelled wonderfully of lavender….but he doesn’t really need anything anymore except for the very occasionally time when he starts getting a rash, which we then use David Hosking’s Diaper Rash Cream, which is hands down, the BEST diaper cream EVER ON THE ENTIRE PLANET.  That’s because it works.

Before we had it Nolan’s pediatrician gave us a prescription for something like clotrimazole or something like that when he got a pretty bad rash around 1 or 2 months- it’s “medicated” and you are not supposed to use it more than 2 or 3 weeks because it can cause liver damage…um, yeah, like I want to use that on my 1 month old helpless infant.  But at the time we didn’t have a choice because nothing else was helping and it was getting worse.  The thing is, this medicated liver-damaging cream didn’t help either, and after 3 weeks we were like, what do we do now?  Ben did some research online and found this, and though it was expensive, it had excellent customer reviews, so we took the leap.  It is now the only thing we ever need and gets rid of any forming rash instantly.  Well enough of that.  Not too many of you reading this have any need or interest in diaper rash cream, so let’s move on to the next blog post eh?

February 1st, 2011 by Busy Mommy

So something Ben finds himself saying fairly frequently lately is “don’t touch that”.  Mostly in relation to different features of his music instruments- like the tuning keys on his guitar.  We didn’t realize but when he went over to Grammy and Grandpa’s this past saturday she realized that he was saying “Don’t touch” and “Don’t touch that” at times.  And sure enough when we asked him to say it he did!  It sounds like “dontouch” and “dontouchat”  We were cracking up over that.

He’s obviously a happy kid so I guess we’re not going overboard with the dont’s and no’s.

February 1st, 2011 by Busy Mommy

Nolan appears to be “graduating” from things very quickly- we already got rid of his crib (see new scenario above)  a couple of months ago when he was like 13 months- we just set his mattress on the floor and he sleeps all night now since 14 months and comes padding in to us in the morning.  We started using the crib when he was 4 months old so that means he only got 9 months use out of it.  He just seemed to do better behaviorally with this new set up as he seems to have an independent personality (I don’t know where he gets it- I certainly don’t know anyone who’s like that).  Smile.  Oh- I’m digressing, but this book we’ve started reading him in the photo above- it’s a Dr. Suess that had a rythym to it when you read it- he’s fascinated with it and after I finished reading it the other night before bed, he took the book and sat there and started pretending to read it by going “car car car car car car car car car.”  It was adorable.

Back to graduating from things, more recently, Nolan kept sliding out of his highchair (I didn’t put the belt on too often because it’s so covered with gunk it’s disgusting and it doesn’t detach to wash) and then climbing up onto our regular dining chairs and wanting to eat the table in those chairs.  So we figured why not?  He seems to be managing fine, so that’s another bulky item we’ve gotten rid of a la courtesy our neighbors who love free stuff- all you have to do is put something you don’t want out on the curb and it will be gone within the next 48 hours.

He still makes a huge mess, but now it’s all over the chair, floor and table instead of the highchair tray, floor, and highchair seat.  Honestly it’s actually quicker for me to wipe up now, so I like the change too.  He’s also learning to use a regular cup and having fun with that.  Sometimes he does great getting it down his mouth, and other times he dumps the whole cupful of water all over himself- although I suspect it’s on purpose anyway.