Getting Organized

"Are you still on the computer?" T peered at me from the hallway. "It's getting late and I need to show you the new drawer layout." I thought foggily about what "drawer layout" might mean as I shuffled after her, mind still on the Very Important Web Surfing which I had until very recently been enjoying. Pulling me into the nursery, T opened a dresser drawer and explained.

"I had to rearrange some things here in the second drawer, but don't worry, it's only slightly different. Here in the middle are the onesies in three stacks, the one in the rear is the long-sleeved type. On the right in the back are the gown-type sleepers. In front of that are the bodysuit sleepers, and then long-sleeve daysuits. On the left are the sunsuits towards the front, and shorts in the back, moving right are the long pants in front and shirts behind those. Behind that are some jumpers-- I think, I wasn't sure how to categorize those..."

I blinked at the neatly stacked piles as T smoothed out a light pink dress on the changing table, eyeing it tragically. "Can you put her in this one tomorrow? She has so many cute outfits in the three-month size that she hasn't even worn yet, and she's getting too big for them..."*

I judged that now was probably not the time to explain again how my choice of clothing tended towards "nearest item in drawer", as long as it didn't have too many snaps, or some construction so complicated that I couldn't tell which end went where.

"Sure honey," I said, "not a problem. I'll take care of it."


*T would like to point out that there are no dresses in drawer #2,
all of the dresses are in drawer #3.

Not entirely accurate

Sometimes I get obsessed with details. Particularly when measurements are involved, I like to have things accurate. I suppose that's why I have a scale with more precision than anyone needs to weigh letters, even though that's mostly what I use it for. It came with a nice brass 200 g proof weight, which the scale reports to be 200.01 grams.

Just for fun, I measured the 5 oz Medela bottles that we have been using for feeding RR, and found that they are not so precise as one might like. In particular, "5 oz" of water is actually a bit over 5.3 oz. Now, we feed her as much as she wants anyway, so this makes no practical difference. I just think Medela could do better with their bottle markings. The 2 oz "snappie" bottle we got at the hospital, which looks like a graduated cylinder with a snap-top cap measures to be 1.9885 oz which seems pretty good to me. 5 oz in the Adiri 8 oz measures 5.217 oz and Dr. Brown's 4 oz reads 4.157 oz.

Forwards and Backwards

This past month, little RR has been doing well in sleeping through the night- so much so, that T avoided the subject at her weekly mom's group, to preclude the possible wrath of the other sleep-deprived moms. However the schedule has been changing, with her first feeding moving at least one hour earlier every day this week. Saturday morning started at 4:45 am, so I guess it's a potential conversation topic again.

In other news, she is able to hold her head up much better than before, and her legs show signs of being able to support her 6 kg weight fairly soon, if not managing actual balance. She pulls at the edge of her bib (maybe not on purpose) and will hold small items briefly. In the vocal department, she seems to be working hard on her Gkkkth sounds, which I'm sure are key elements of some language... possibly Klingon. Gkkkth.mp3