The last few days he has been miserable… I have been nursing him, holding him, giving him cold washcloths and ice rings and other fun toys to chew on but he really hurt poor little guy….
This morning he was making sounds that were just so pitiful before we all got up… I gave him my finger to chew on a bit and I felt the little rough spot that I remember with the other two…
He was in such a better mood today!
Yesterday I ran into a nurse that I know at the grocery store… we talked a bit about my UC, birth, breastfeeding and babywearing which led to weight…. when I told her that we hadn’t had him weighed because we don’t agree with Well-baby visits she offered to weigh Khéna if I wanted (she had a free time this afternoon) and I thought it would be fun even to just show him off to a few of the nurses that I know… so I went in today, put him down on the scale and got the numbers…
At a few days shy of 6 months (6 months on Monday) he is now 29 pounds and is about 29 1/2 inches long…!!!!!
He is wearing 24 months (in the pic he has a 24 month romper) and mostly 2 years clothes and is just a big boy overall…
Such a frustrating day!
Our city allows garage sales 4 weekends a year… 3 are in May and one at the end of August… though the August one is free the others need a license and not only can they only be valid for one weekend, you cannot even get another one if things don’t go well, rain etc…
Anyway…
I saw that it would be nice this weekend so I decided that it was a good day for a garage sale… On friday I went and got change, got the license etc and then came home to get everything together with Simon… Early on Sat morning we got everything set up and then started the wait… Well… another thing about garage sales here is that you are not allowed to advertise… neither before or during the sale.. and of course, we live on a small side street… so we practically had no one come by… finally at the end of the day we made our first sale… then a second… paying at least our license.. then a third sale made our grand total of profit…
1$
I am never having another garage sale here… the laws really suck!!!
The only good thing was that it was a gorgeous day and I got some cute pics…
I read about this on a message board so I decided to give it a try…
Started the oven at 300F and started filling 4 muffin cups with broken crayons… 10 minutes later the crayons were melted… we watched (or tried to watch) though the oven door to see the crayons melt and Xavier thought it was cool…
Then we took them out and looked at them a bit before we put them in the freezer to set…
They looked really cool but I am not really hapy with the way they turned out… I am not sure that it was because the broken crayons were cheap… or we did something wrong but they didn’t colour much…
It was still a cool experiment though… and I think that I will be trying again with some good old crayola’s…
Thanks Ania for the link to these!!
“Go to your local public school, walk down the hallways
and see what behaviors you would want your child to emulate.”
-Manfred B. Zysk
“By breaking up topics into age-appropriate subjects as schools do,
learning is divorced from real life, and therefore limited.”
-Sara McGrath
(and of course you can read Sara’s blog here)
I hope there are more of these…I love them!!
