Daylight Savings
I’ve just spent the last few days trying to prepare the boys for the end of daylight savings, only to find out that it doesn’t end this weekend but next weekend instead. What a bugger! It’s really very hard work to change their timetable by an hour, and so far we’ve only changed about half to three quarters of an hour. I think we’ll stick with that for a few days and let them get used to it, and then next weekend we’ll be right to finish the change. It will stuff us up for this week though, because all appointments and so forth have been made around the regular sleep times and won’t fit in now that they’re sleeping at different times. I think it’ll be a tough week, but fortunately the nanny starts tomorrow, so there’ll be some assistance for at least a couple of days.
There have been a few other changes this week, with Lachlan and Daniel graduating from the laundry tub to the big bath. We decided it was time because Lachlan has learnt how to splash, and was emptying half of the laundry tub all over the floor. If he splashes in the big bath the sides prevent the floor from getting too wet. The other positive (sort of) is that the boys can share the bath (rather than the water) which I think they enjoy. They so love talking to each other and sharing their playtime. The only negative is the bath takes half the time which makes stringing them out until bedtime a little bit more difficult – especially when we’re pushing the time back for the end of daylight savings.
They’re both also coming along a little bit with their solid eating. Lachlan is accepting more lumpy food without too many complaints, and Daniel isn’t throwing up quite as much. However, with him it seems to be two steps forward and one step back. He takes food like toast, biscuits, banana and so forth and eats it with no problem (he chows down on a biscuit like a little chipmunk!), but this morning he threw up on some porridge oats. They had some tuna mornay the other day and didn’t mind the pasta too much, so I’m going to try that again soon. It’s still a bit of a risk with Daniel though. Luckily the vomiting doesn’t seem to bother him, but it’s really quite distressing for Richard and I. At the moment neither of us are particularly keen to feed him, which is a bit upsetting because it should be something we’re fighting over, rather than fighting to avoid.
Lachlan is still crawling okay though he’s yet to get up on his knees. He’s also starting to pull himself up on things (like Jungle Gym Richard), but he doesn’t quite have the strength to do it properly yet. He loves to stand up though, as does Daniel, and they will both go stiff as a board if they don’t want to sit down. He’s gone a little bit backwards with his sleeping though, and doesn’t seem to be able to settle himself when he gets out of his wrap. The last few nights we’ve had to try and settle him a number of times before giving up and re-wrapping him.
Daniel is also still rolling quite a lot – he really seems to enjoy it which is a relief. It’s still a struggle for him to lift his head, but he does it when he has to. He’s getting stronger all the time. He’s also enunciating really well and experimenting with making noises with his tongue. Richard and I are both hoping this will lead to him being better able to deal with lumpy food. He can get really loud when he wants to, which is such a surprise considering how quiet a baby he’s been until now. Lachlan is still far more noisy and screams and squeals all the time. It’s quite ear-splitting but it’s hard to tell him to stop when he doesn’t understand. He just gets so excited (or cross) and lets it all out!
Yesterday we went to kindergym to make up for some missed sessions. Richard came too and it was much more successful than the Wednesday sessions have been. Both boys had slept well and were much happier with Richard and I than with the kindergym coordinator. The group was quite different from the Wednesday group which is all babies. This group had kids of all ages and lots of Dads, so it was interesting in that respect.
The final change that I can think of that we’ve made this week, is that we’ve started removing Dan’s oxygen cable when he’s awake. We then attach it again with a very small piece of tape when he goes to bed. We weren’t doing this originally because he became so upset whenever the prongs were inserted in his nose, and we thought removing the tape would be very painful. But it’s working out quite well and he seems to be getting used to the prongs being attached. It’s certainly much easier handling him without the oxygen cable trailing along behind him and it means we don’t have to worry about Lachlan grabbing them, or the cable getting tangled as Daniel rolls around.
