Any treatment week that is a multiple of 3 is one in which The Boy receives 2 medications and will receive a Zofran IV as a precursor. So this week it's week 6. Not a red diaper week, at least. We'll be there a little longer; if The Boy starts to get sleepy, he and I might go into the quiet room and snuggle up for a nap.
I love naps with The Boy.
I failed to nap today, as per usual, although I usually nap post-treatment with The Boy and Musical Daddy. Something about the whole process makes me all sleepy.
Not sure if I mentioned it, but looking at The Boy's calendar, after week 10 he will only receive actual chemo meds on the "multiple of 3" weeks. That means that recovery from Diaper Doom is a lot easier.
Today was a dull day. I didn't leave the property (I left the house only to get something out of the car and to take diapers off the line) because it was just that kind of day. Tomorrow I'll exercise first thing in the morning and make breakfast for The Boy and Musical Daddy.
I did get an "exciting" email thanking me for my recent blood donation and informing me that my cholesterol was 153. Seeing as how it was 203 in 2004 (no, I don't know why), that's pretty darned good.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Saturday, August 9, 2008
The Best Resters
Since I am awake and it's only just after 7:00, while The Boy and Musical Daddy are still sleeping, it's clear that I do not win the "best rester" award.
The Golden Pillow...the mattress trophy...The Bronze Blankie...none of that for me. Not for lack of trying--I wanted to nap with The Boy yesterday but it just wasn't happening.
Yesterday I went out to lunch with some other moms from an online group. We all live close to each other (relatively speaking) and we get together occasionally for park playdates or museum visits, and occasional house visits as well. The leader of the group (appointed so because she takes most of the initiative in arranging events and also does the online group maintenance) has a son who just turned 5 and a son who is 8 months or so. The Boy will likely be friends with the younger son once they are old enough to have friends.
We had Indian food which, to me, is fantastic. I know that it's an acquired taste...but somehow I think that The Boy would enjoy it. It's a lunch buffet during the day, so I'd imagine that at his age he would just be expected to eat from our plates. Which he does (sometimes literally, by swiping food from us). One of these days we'll go as a family. Preferably on a day where we anticipate that The Boy will actually have an appetite.
So far he seems better than last weekend. The Boy and I went to services last night which is not nearly as difficult as one might imagine. For much of the service, he has no problem just sitting on my lap. Once he gets antsy, it isn't a problem to let him get down and do some crawling. When we first entered and I had to get him out of the sling, he actually stood for a good five-ish seconds! Long enough to realize that he was standing. Then he fell on his bum.
It's been helpful, we think, that he's in cloth dipes because there's so much more padding there and he isn't afraid to just plop right down on his behind. Another friend told us that their little girl would sometimes get a bruised behind just from plopping down on the ground so much. But then, she was walking at 9 or 10 months so she must have gotten over it enough to practice!
At any rate, I need to go hang up the diapers so that enough of them will be dry; otherwise, The Boy will have none.
The Golden Pillow...the mattress trophy...The Bronze Blankie...none of that for me. Not for lack of trying--I wanted to nap with The Boy yesterday but it just wasn't happening.
Yesterday I went out to lunch with some other moms from an online group. We all live close to each other (relatively speaking) and we get together occasionally for park playdates or museum visits, and occasional house visits as well. The leader of the group (appointed so because she takes most of the initiative in arranging events and also does the online group maintenance) has a son who just turned 5 and a son who is 8 months or so. The Boy will likely be friends with the younger son once they are old enough to have friends.
We had Indian food which, to me, is fantastic. I know that it's an acquired taste...but somehow I think that The Boy would enjoy it. It's a lunch buffet during the day, so I'd imagine that at his age he would just be expected to eat from our plates. Which he does (sometimes literally, by swiping food from us). One of these days we'll go as a family. Preferably on a day where we anticipate that The Boy will actually have an appetite.
So far he seems better than last weekend. The Boy and I went to services last night which is not nearly as difficult as one might imagine. For much of the service, he has no problem just sitting on my lap. Once he gets antsy, it isn't a problem to let him get down and do some crawling. When we first entered and I had to get him out of the sling, he actually stood for a good five-ish seconds! Long enough to realize that he was standing. Then he fell on his bum.
It's been helpful, we think, that he's in cloth dipes because there's so much more padding there and he isn't afraid to just plop right down on his behind. Another friend told us that their little girl would sometimes get a bruised behind just from plopping down on the ground so much. But then, she was walking at 9 or 10 months so she must have gotten over it enough to practice!
At any rate, I need to go hang up the diapers so that enough of them will be dry; otherwise, The Boy will have none.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Happy Birthday, Musical Daddy
Today Musical Daddy had a birthday (I'll leave it up to him to tell you which one). I had left his presents on his side of the bed last night since he got home late from rehearsal and hanging out with the guys afterwards. The Boy had gone to sleep at 9:00 and woke up at 12:00 just as I was about to get into bed, so I brought him in with me even though I could have easily put him back to bed after a quick feeding. Musical Daddy got home around 12:30 and we all slept for quite awhile. The Boy woke up at 4:30 to nurse...not bad, going for over 4 hours overnight.
By the way...I'm on the really old laptop. It is in such bad shape. Worse so because it fell down a few days ago...and the 4 key is messed up. Among other problems. There's very little response, so you don't know what you're going to get with it. As an experiment, I pressed the 4 key 10 times and got 5 4's out of the deal. But I deleted them because you don't want to see 4's (I had to type that over again).
ANYHOW...we woke up for the morning at about 7:30. Barely awake, but we somehow managed. Musical Daddy opened his presents--an organizer for the fridge with shopping list and white board (you'd think that that was the equivalent of Marge getting a bowling ball from Homer but if you know him and us, that's a pretty good gift) and the book Tigerheart which, in all fairness, he specifically requested.
The best present, however, was when he handed the wrapping paper to The Boy, and just to watch him explore the new texture, examining it carefully in his typical multisensory fashion...and then to watch him rip it and throw it around, just shouting with glee, was SO worth the effort of wrapping the gifts and a lovely way for Musical Daddy to start his birthday.
We went out to breakfast, to a place that we hadn't gone in awhile because since the management had changed and most of the staff that we knew wasn't there, it wasn't nearly as good as it had been. I decided that since it was the middle of the week it might be a good idea to try them again. Musical Daddy was not disappointed by his raisin French toast and eggs on the side and I did enjoy my broccoli, tomato, and cheddar omelette. The Boy enjoyed breakfast as well; he ate quite a bit of both plain egg and the broccoli and tomato egg, and some potatoes.
Another aside: Musical Daddy and I have been together for nearly 8 years. For quite a long time he led me to believe that I was indecisive and needed to have a stronger voice in picking out things for myself or for us...when in reality he's the one who is indecisive and I can't believe it took me as long as it did to figure this out. Really, neither one of us has strong opinions about things like exactly where we go out to eat or what color to paint the walls but it seems as though I'm usually the tiebreaker (I rather like our walls, by the way. They are a silver color, rather than a white or a beige, and they have a satin finish).
We relaxed at home for awhile and then I exercised. This makes the third time in a week that I've exercised and I have to say, I rather like the feeling. Of course, with the way that I ate today, I'm sure glad that I have been exercising.
I also washed diapers today. The past 2 diaper washings have been more like 5 days apart instead of the more typical (and more recommended) 3 or so. I think that since we've rediscovered the prefold, thanks to the wonders of the nice covers that make it easy (like the Bummis Super Whisper Wrap), we've been using them more often. I think that we've been changing The Boy more often, especially while he's in prefolds, but it hasn't affected the amount of wash cycles. We have been setting it for large instead of medium, however. Since it was sunny and hot, it was a good day to line-dry (I would have planned the washing for a line-drying day anyway).
I went to teach lessons after lunch and, surprisingly enough, The Boy went for that entire time while I was gone without any milk (I have a stash in the freezer; if you just clicked the link and you're a person who is looking to improve athletic performance, tough luck).
We walked around a bit before dinner; we had intended to walk down the street for Soul Food but alas, they were closed because they lacked air conditioning. So we went to check out another place and to be honest, I thought that it looked too foofy to bring The Boy there. Instead, we went for dinner.
It is rare that we, being both health-conscious and cheap, will go out for more than one meal in a day unless perhaps one of those meals is a nice light sandwich from Quick-Chek. However, since it was Musical Daddy's birthday, it was a treat.
The Boy was fussier than normal at dinner. I tested the meatball theory and while he did moderately enjoy it, he also had some chicken in a sauce and quite a bit of bread. Including garlic bread, which he really enjoyed. I'm glad that we don't usually have bread in the house because white bread has so little nutritional value and The Boy doesn't need to have it become a staple of his diet.
We also had forgotten a sippy cup but The Boy did have several successful drinks from a regular cup. And several successful attempts to shove his whole face into the cup.
Chemo tomorrow, week 5. I'm not looking forward to the fact that it seems like he just got back to normal after last week and now he has to have more chemo; who knows how long it will take this time? Will he still be "not himself" for the next treatment? I'm not sure if next week will, in fact, be worse, because the Adriamycin (Doxorubicin) was 2 weeks ago and that is probably the harshest of the three drugs. It is certainly the reddest. Since chemotherapy is cumulative, maybe he was only recently feeling the effects of that drug rather than this past week's Vincristine, which is the primary drug in his treatment schedule.
Interestingly enough, as we studied the treatment schedule, The Boy will not get medicine every week once week 9 is over. Sometimes he will only require a blood draw at the center. Tomorrow we should have some more definite answers as to when more things are happening.
I do hope that Musical Daddy had a good birthday. We're not the most exciting people but we have a good time, and we love each other.
By the way...I'm on the really old laptop. It is in such bad shape. Worse so because it fell down a few days ago...and the 4 key is messed up. Among other problems. There's very little response, so you don't know what you're going to get with it. As an experiment, I pressed the 4 key 10 times and got 5 4's out of the deal. But I deleted them because you don't want to see 4's (I had to type that over again).
ANYHOW...we woke up for the morning at about 7:30. Barely awake, but we somehow managed. Musical Daddy opened his presents--an organizer for the fridge with shopping list and white board (you'd think that that was the equivalent of Marge getting a bowling ball from Homer but if you know him and us, that's a pretty good gift) and the book Tigerheart which, in all fairness, he specifically requested.
The best present, however, was when he handed the wrapping paper to The Boy, and just to watch him explore the new texture, examining it carefully in his typical multisensory fashion...and then to watch him rip it and throw it around, just shouting with glee, was SO worth the effort of wrapping the gifts and a lovely way for Musical Daddy to start his birthday.
We went out to breakfast, to a place that we hadn't gone in awhile because since the management had changed and most of the staff that we knew wasn't there, it wasn't nearly as good as it had been. I decided that since it was the middle of the week it might be a good idea to try them again. Musical Daddy was not disappointed by his raisin French toast and eggs on the side and I did enjoy my broccoli, tomato, and cheddar omelette. The Boy enjoyed breakfast as well; he ate quite a bit of both plain egg and the broccoli and tomato egg, and some potatoes.
Another aside: Musical Daddy and I have been together for nearly 8 years. For quite a long time he led me to believe that I was indecisive and needed to have a stronger voice in picking out things for myself or for us...when in reality he's the one who is indecisive and I can't believe it took me as long as it did to figure this out. Really, neither one of us has strong opinions about things like exactly where we go out to eat or what color to paint the walls but it seems as though I'm usually the tiebreaker (I rather like our walls, by the way. They are a silver color, rather than a white or a beige, and they have a satin finish).
We relaxed at home for awhile and then I exercised. This makes the third time in a week that I've exercised and I have to say, I rather like the feeling. Of course, with the way that I ate today, I'm sure glad that I have been exercising.
I also washed diapers today. The past 2 diaper washings have been more like 5 days apart instead of the more typical (and more recommended) 3 or so. I think that since we've rediscovered the prefold, thanks to the wonders of the nice covers that make it easy (like the Bummis Super Whisper Wrap), we've been using them more often. I think that we've been changing The Boy more often, especially while he's in prefolds, but it hasn't affected the amount of wash cycles. We have been setting it for large instead of medium, however. Since it was sunny and hot, it was a good day to line-dry (I would have planned the washing for a line-drying day anyway).
I went to teach lessons after lunch and, surprisingly enough, The Boy went for that entire time while I was gone without any milk (I have a stash in the freezer; if you just clicked the link and you're a person who is looking to improve athletic performance, tough luck).
We walked around a bit before dinner; we had intended to walk down the street for Soul Food but alas, they were closed because they lacked air conditioning. So we went to check out another place and to be honest, I thought that it looked too foofy to bring The Boy there. Instead, we went for dinner.
It is rare that we, being both health-conscious and cheap, will go out for more than one meal in a day unless perhaps one of those meals is a nice light sandwich from Quick-Chek. However, since it was Musical Daddy's birthday, it was a treat.
The Boy was fussier than normal at dinner. I tested the meatball theory and while he did moderately enjoy it, he also had some chicken in a sauce and quite a bit of bread. Including garlic bread, which he really enjoyed. I'm glad that we don't usually have bread in the house because white bread has so little nutritional value and The Boy doesn't need to have it become a staple of his diet.
We also had forgotten a sippy cup but The Boy did have several successful drinks from a regular cup. And several successful attempts to shove his whole face into the cup.
Chemo tomorrow, week 5. I'm not looking forward to the fact that it seems like he just got back to normal after last week and now he has to have more chemo; who knows how long it will take this time? Will he still be "not himself" for the next treatment? I'm not sure if next week will, in fact, be worse, because the Adriamycin (Doxorubicin) was 2 weeks ago and that is probably the harshest of the three drugs. It is certainly the reddest. Since chemotherapy is cumulative, maybe he was only recently feeling the effects of that drug rather than this past week's Vincristine, which is the primary drug in his treatment schedule.
Interestingly enough, as we studied the treatment schedule, The Boy will not get medicine every week once week 9 is over. Sometimes he will only require a blood draw at the center. Tomorrow we should have some more definite answers as to when more things are happening.
I do hope that Musical Daddy had a good birthday. We're not the most exciting people but we have a good time, and we love each other.
Monday, July 28, 2008
One of the many reasons I love my husband
Parents Magazine Rebuttal
Musical Daddy wrote this a few months ago after we read a really poorly written article in Parents Magazine. I just wanted to revisit it because it's brilliant.
Recently, my mother forwarded me a thread on the Slickdeals forums. CostCo online is now selling Bumkins All-In-Ones, fitted diapers, and diaper covers. Many people were excited about this new development, but just as many people were shocked and appalled at the idea of washable cloth diapers.
My feeling is that our dipes are more effective at holding things in there until he gets changed, so we do less clothing laundry.
Musical Daddy wrote this a few months ago after we read a really poorly written article in Parents Magazine. I just wanted to revisit it because it's brilliant.
Recently, my mother forwarded me a thread on the Slickdeals forums. CostCo online is now selling Bumkins All-In-Ones, fitted diapers, and diaper covers. Many people were excited about this new development, but just as many people were shocked and appalled at the idea of washable cloth diapers.
My feeling is that our dipes are more effective at holding things in there until he gets changed, so we do less clothing laundry.
So okay...Musical Mommy was taken
The last thing I want to do is draw attention away from my husband's wonderful blog, The Musical Daddy. I also find it pretty funny that he's the one working on the math degree yet *I* get stuck with "logic" in my blog title. For those of you who are readers of the above-mentioned blog, you'll find that my blogging style is similar. In fact, the last entry was written by me. I wrote a review of gDiapers.
A bit about me, and my family, for those who are new readers or would like to hear more about us: Musical Daddy and I are both public school music teachers, and The Boy is almost 11 months old. Musical Daddy spent last schoolyear at home tending to The Boy while I went to work. His blog was originally created to chronicle the life of the stay-at-home dad.
The major disclaimer that I will write is that, for the sake of this blog actually being useful, it does get a little personal. Certainly not TOO personal, and without branching into the "inappropriate." I intend to keep the language clean, and since much of this blog will be devoted to discussions about the raising of children, it should be fine fare for anyone who is interested in these topics. So with that in mind...
I am a nursing, cloth-diapering, part-time co-sleeping, sling-wearing, baby-led solids encouraging mama. And when I put it like that, I sound like a raging hippie. I'll admit that my perspective has changed somewhat since having The Boy, but most of the choices that we have made as parents have evolved from our day-to-day actions. As in, they are "logical" choices. Hence, The Logical Mommy.
There was no "choice" involved in nursing The Boy; it was what I had to do. No question, no debate, no discussion. Even when it turned out that I'd be going back to work, I bought one of these and committed myself to, at least, 6 months of exclusive mama milk for The Boy. And then at around 3 or 4 months, I figured out that there was no need to stop before 1 year or even 2 years.
With the cloth diapers, there didn't seem to be any other option either. The Boy kept on getting these nasty rashes from disposables. I wasn't thrilled with the amount of garbage that we were producing as a result of him being in disposable diapers either. Thankfully, through the magic of the internet, we discovered that cloth diapering didn't have to be done with pins and rubber pants, even though we did start with those for a few days.
In our cloth diaper stash (you can skip this paragraph if you don't care), we have primarily bumGenius 2.0 OneSize pocket diapers (they have since upgraded!). They are fantastic! We also have HuggaBuns pocket diapers in a size medium and 1 Happy Heinys pocket diaper (yes, that's really what it is called). The pocket diaper goes on the baby like a disposable would, with snaps or velcro to hold it together. It has the waterproof cover on the outside and fleece of some sort that touches baby's skin. There is a pocket to put absorbent inserts. The All-In-One diaper is similar except that everything is put together. I find that it takes longer to dry. We have fitted diapers with matching covers from BluePenguin and a few from EcoBaby that I picked up on FreeCycle. Fitted diapers also go on like disposables but do require a cover. And we also have good old fashioned prefolds, which are pretty much the only cloth diaper that can be purchased in the big stores around here. For those, we have Bummis covers, mostly the Super Whisper Wrap. We have a Thirsties cover as well.
The co-sleeping came about because The Boy started sleeping through the night on his own at 2.5 months--actually, the same night that he was first cloth-diapered--but then changed his mind a few weeks later. He had stopped waking up to nurse, but then decided to phase night feedings right back in. First a 3:00 AM feeding returned, and sometimes Musical Daddy would bring him into our bed for me to feed him...but then none of us would stay awake for him to finish the feedings. Then he tried a 12:00 AM feeding instead. Usually for that one I'd go in to feed him and then put him back to bed. But then both feedings returned sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas. And he phased himself into our bed, nursing to his heart's content. Everyone got more sleep with the baby in our bed.
An added benefit was that he started to want more milk at night from me than he did during the day from bottles, which made pumping easier. This isn't uncommon, apparently, for babies to reverse-cycle and nurse more at night even though they will still sleep between feedings.
Sling-wearing: we got the NoJo Baby Sling as a hand-me-down from Musical Daddy's brother's family. We didn't use it when The Boy was very little but when he was 3 or 4 months old, we started to experiment with it. He is often carried in the sling during shopping expeditions. He will ride in the cart for awhile, but it's just so much easier to carry him close. He doesn't fuss. Sometimes he even falls asleep. The sling allows for constant snuggles while allowing for freedom of movement for parents.
Baby-led solids (baby-led weaning): one of the best decisions that we ever made. No question. And also one of the laziest, but in a good way. Baby-led weaning is based on the theory that babies will eat what they want when they are ready to do so. As they become more familiar with food, they will take less milk via nursing. The key is that the parents offer the food but the child has to pick it up and try it. Which is impossible with puréed carrots. Starting with soft foods--veggies and fruits--that are made into sticks and trees, babies as young as 6 months can start to eat at the table with the family. Much younger than that, and they might not have the ability to get the food into their mouths and may not have lost the tongue-thrust reflex that keeps food out of their mouths until their bodies are ready to process food other than milk.
That's the long rundown of how we do things around here. If you've read this far, GREAT! If you cheated and skipped to this paragraph, that's okay. I won't know.
Last month, The Boy was diagnosed with Wilms Tumor, which is in the kidneys. He had his entire left kidney removed and is going to have a chunk of the right one removed soon. He is currently undergoing chemotherapy. Musical Daddy has done a remarkable job of chronicling this whole experience. Read the post about the origins of The Boy's condition right here.
Thing is, for 5 days a week, everything is pretty routine for The Boy. He does the normal things that any 11-month-old does. And even for the other two days--the day of chemotherapy, that night, and the day after--he's still pretty much himself and we're the ones with the issues. All things considered, we're not doing too badly. It's been great having such an outpouring of support from family and friends, and it makes it so much easier to look at The Boy and his handsome smiling face.
That's about it...after spending an hour writing, interrupted by the sounds of The Boy who is asleep in his crib (a quick feeding and he was back in slumberland), I think I've covered "the basics" of our family and this blog.
A bit about me, and my family, for those who are new readers or would like to hear more about us: Musical Daddy and I are both public school music teachers, and The Boy is almost 11 months old. Musical Daddy spent last schoolyear at home tending to The Boy while I went to work. His blog was originally created to chronicle the life of the stay-at-home dad.
The major disclaimer that I will write is that, for the sake of this blog actually being useful, it does get a little personal. Certainly not TOO personal, and without branching into the "inappropriate." I intend to keep the language clean, and since much of this blog will be devoted to discussions about the raising of children, it should be fine fare for anyone who is interested in these topics. So with that in mind...
I am a nursing, cloth-diapering, part-time co-sleeping, sling-wearing, baby-led solids encouraging mama. And when I put it like that, I sound like a raging hippie. I'll admit that my perspective has changed somewhat since having The Boy, but most of the choices that we have made as parents have evolved from our day-to-day actions. As in, they are "logical" choices. Hence, The Logical Mommy.
There was no "choice" involved in nursing The Boy; it was what I had to do. No question, no debate, no discussion. Even when it turned out that I'd be going back to work, I bought one of these and committed myself to, at least, 6 months of exclusive mama milk for The Boy. And then at around 3 or 4 months, I figured out that there was no need to stop before 1 year or even 2 years.
With the cloth diapers, there didn't seem to be any other option either. The Boy kept on getting these nasty rashes from disposables. I wasn't thrilled with the amount of garbage that we were producing as a result of him being in disposable diapers either. Thankfully, through the magic of the internet, we discovered that cloth diapering didn't have to be done with pins and rubber pants, even though we did start with those for a few days.
In our cloth diaper stash (you can skip this paragraph if you don't care), we have primarily bumGenius 2.0 OneSize pocket diapers (they have since upgraded!). They are fantastic! We also have HuggaBuns pocket diapers in a size medium and 1 Happy Heinys pocket diaper (yes, that's really what it is called). The pocket diaper goes on the baby like a disposable would, with snaps or velcro to hold it together. It has the waterproof cover on the outside and fleece of some sort that touches baby's skin. There is a pocket to put absorbent inserts. The All-In-One diaper is similar except that everything is put together. I find that it takes longer to dry. We have fitted diapers with matching covers from BluePenguin and a few from EcoBaby that I picked up on FreeCycle. Fitted diapers also go on like disposables but do require a cover. And we also have good old fashioned prefolds, which are pretty much the only cloth diaper that can be purchased in the big stores around here. For those, we have Bummis covers, mostly the Super Whisper Wrap. We have a Thirsties cover as well.
The co-sleeping came about because The Boy started sleeping through the night on his own at 2.5 months--actually, the same night that he was first cloth-diapered--but then changed his mind a few weeks later. He had stopped waking up to nurse, but then decided to phase night feedings right back in. First a 3:00 AM feeding returned, and sometimes Musical Daddy would bring him into our bed for me to feed him...but then none of us would stay awake for him to finish the feedings. Then he tried a 12:00 AM feeding instead. Usually for that one I'd go in to feed him and then put him back to bed. But then both feedings returned sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas. And he phased himself into our bed, nursing to his heart's content. Everyone got more sleep with the baby in our bed.
An added benefit was that he started to want more milk at night from me than he did during the day from bottles, which made pumping easier. This isn't uncommon, apparently, for babies to reverse-cycle and nurse more at night even though they will still sleep between feedings.
Sling-wearing: we got the NoJo Baby Sling as a hand-me-down from Musical Daddy's brother's family. We didn't use it when The Boy was very little but when he was 3 or 4 months old, we started to experiment with it. He is often carried in the sling during shopping expeditions. He will ride in the cart for awhile, but it's just so much easier to carry him close. He doesn't fuss. Sometimes he even falls asleep. The sling allows for constant snuggles while allowing for freedom of movement for parents.
Baby-led solids (baby-led weaning): one of the best decisions that we ever made. No question. And also one of the laziest, but in a good way. Baby-led weaning is based on the theory that babies will eat what they want when they are ready to do so. As they become more familiar with food, they will take less milk via nursing. The key is that the parents offer the food but the child has to pick it up and try it. Which is impossible with puréed carrots. Starting with soft foods--veggies and fruits--that are made into sticks and trees, babies as young as 6 months can start to eat at the table with the family. Much younger than that, and they might not have the ability to get the food into their mouths and may not have lost the tongue-thrust reflex that keeps food out of their mouths until their bodies are ready to process food other than milk.
That's the long rundown of how we do things around here. If you've read this far, GREAT! If you cheated and skipped to this paragraph, that's okay. I won't know.
Last month, The Boy was diagnosed with Wilms Tumor, which is in the kidneys. He had his entire left kidney removed and is going to have a chunk of the right one removed soon. He is currently undergoing chemotherapy. Musical Daddy has done a remarkable job of chronicling this whole experience. Read the post about the origins of The Boy's condition right here.
Thing is, for 5 days a week, everything is pretty routine for The Boy. He does the normal things that any 11-month-old does. And even for the other two days--the day of chemotherapy, that night, and the day after--he's still pretty much himself and we're the ones with the issues. All things considered, we're not doing too badly. It's been great having such an outpouring of support from family and friends, and it makes it so much easier to look at The Boy and his handsome smiling face.
That's about it...after spending an hour writing, interrupted by the sounds of The Boy who is asleep in his crib (a quick feeding and he was back in slumberland), I think I've covered "the basics" of our family and this blog.
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