The last couple of weeks one of Nadia's favorite things to do is play by the step in between our kitchen and family room. Sometimes she climbs up the step to get to her toybox, but most of the time she just likes to hang out on the family room side of the step.Another favorite activity is to ride on my shoulders. If she's really upset and nothing else will calm her down, that will do the trick and turn her tears to smiles. I learned a lesson though on Friday that after she's been fed is NOT the time to do that as she spit up quite a bit and most of it landed in my hair. Gross!
Today I was at Walmart for over 2 hours as it took 2 hours for them to change my oil and rotate my tires. While they were working on the car I got a haircut. Boy did I get a haircut. She cut it WAY shorter than I wanted her to. Well maybe I'll like it, but if not hair does grow back, it will take less time to blowdry, and Nadia won't have as much to grab ahold of. So I guess there will be some perks to the shorter hairdo. I guess a 4th benefit is I should be able to go longer until I get it cut again!
Nadia keeps waking up earlier and earlier, and it's not usually at the same time as a train so I am not going by that theory any more. Any suggestions? I don't get her as soon as she wakes up, but even the time I go get her keeps inching up earlier and earlier. I've tried putting her to bed later, but it seems no matter what time I put her to bed - she wakes up prior to 6am. I was hoping to push her wake up time to 7:30am, but right now I'd settle for 6:30 instead of 5:40!We leave for Chicago on Wednesday morning. I want to start packing tomorrow as I teach on Mondays and Tuesdays. Any tips for traveling with an almost 9 month old? Thankfully the flight is only about 2 1/2 hours, and since we're headed to my sister who has 2 children (and is due to give birth to her 3rd in about one month) she already has strollers, a high chair, car seats, etc. So I should be able to pack pretty light which will be good since I'll be going to the airport myself. I am planning to carry Nadia in the Snugli, and I'm just going to take one suitcase to check-in plus one carry on. Do they let you take a bottle on the airplane or do I need to bring formula powder and an empty bottle to fill up with water and mix on the plane? The trip to Antigua in May will be longer (thankfully also a non-stop flight), but there will be 4 adults traveling with her that time rather than just me.
Yesterday I made some corn for Nadia so now I have four different veggies frozen in cubes in bags in our freezer - peas, carrots, green beans, and corn. She liked the corn. Every week I buy one large tub of either plain yogurt or cottage cheese for her. She eats quite a bit these days! She also loves bananas. Paul and I share some of ours with her when we're eating one. She also eats a lot of puffs, zwieback toast, rice cereal, oatmeal, and unsweetened appleasauce.
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They do let you bring liquids for baby on the plane, but be aware that if there is more than a certain amount in the bottle or cup (not sure what the cutoff is), they may test the liquid with some litmus paper to make sure it's legit. That happened to me.
I would start collecting a few small toys and books (are there yard sales going on there yet?) but don't show them to Nadia yet. Compile them to use on the airplane. Chances are, if she hasn't seen the toys before (or it's been a while since she's seen them) she'll be more interested for longer. Novelty, don't you know! :) When you're on the plane, only get out one at a time, and let her play with each one til she's really done with that particular toy.
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