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[sal_amanda]

So the person in Ohio who would be handling the paperwork that would let us leave the state was out today.  She'll be working on it tomorrow, but then it still needs to go to New York.  Guess we'll be here for Halloween.  My friends bought us pumpkins so Nora and John carved a couple today. 

We've been trying to keep Nora busy.  John took her to a little interactive science museum in Dayton today.  I'm taking her to the Cincinnati zoo tomorrow. 

She's doing fairly well, but has had some moments.  Notably yesterday when we went to Target.  We put Henry's carrier in the basket of a cart and Nora insisted that she wanted to sit there.  It was an all out tantrum that required me to remove her from the store for a few minutes.  Yay.

Our friends have been absolutely fabulous and we're seriously so much more comfortable than we'd ever be cramped into a hotel.  I can't thank them enough. 

Henry is a serious eater.  They told us at the hospital that he ate twice as much as the other babies.  And he is producing some major waste, as a result, that has rendered newborn sized diapers useless.  Not absorbant enough.  So despite having a ton of them, we've had to move on to size 1 because the massive outfit and sheet changes has been making us all crazy.  TMI?  Baby poop is cute, though.

I will say this.  Whether it's experience or a difference in baby personality or, more likely, not needing to deal with my own physical recovery and hormones, this seems a bit easier this time around.  *knock on wood*
 

Comments

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

Yeah, doing the newborn thing without having to deal with your own hormones has to be a plus. Though I'd have to get back in the habit of waking up in the middle of the night (I have a theory that the small bladder of pregnancy is actually preparing mothers for middle-of-the-night feedings).

I hope you get to go home soon!

[busybusymama.livejournal.com]

tell me more about the tantrums and poop, and less about the easier stuff, because you are making me want another baby (preferably not one birthed by ME!).

[sal_amanda]

Yesterday, John got peed, pooped, spit up, and sneezed on by him, if that makes you feel any better. And he's still staying up a lot at night, which kind of sucks a lot.