6:21, waiting for the bus. Enough bags to look like I’m moving house, no sign of any buses as yet.
And did I mention it’s raining?
And so it begins…
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The Night Before…
Back to work tomorrow. Different building, don’t know where my team is, don’t know anyone on my team and my boss starts work 4 hours later than me… wish me luck!
Squiggles!
Or squirrels, as people who aren’t my kids call them.
(Yes, I need to save up for a better zoom lense! – working on fixing my roof first though)
Accidental Masha and the Bear…
So I wanted to make a Pixie hat for little, I used the free crochet pattern here, and needless to say, mine didn’t end up quite like the picture. But I still liked it and made her wear it. Then she played with her new goldilocks/bear toy (a bit horrifying really, goldilocks is inside the bear!) and the resemblance the Masha and the Bear was realised!
Ickle Autumn Flower…
I’m not even gonna pretend to know what they are!
OK… google thinks they might be ‘Autumn crocus’ and I’m inclined to agree! (Who dares doubt the mighty Google?)
Google also says – don’t eat it. I find myself saying that a lot as the owner of small children, but thankfully, they aren’t into eating flowers!
Random Autumn Pics
From our annual ‘Autumn Walk’ because every year, there’s a kid homework about Autumn, and this seems the easiest way to do it!
This Tree loves everyone
And I like it too
Living room floor battleground
Some kids have toy soldiers, mine have cowboys and Indians
Make it So…
Going back to work sucks… so does formula, apparently!
So, as it’s nearly time to go back to work, I’ve been trying to prepare the baby for the change. And failing.
3 weeks of trying to get little to drink formula. 2 brands of formula. 2 types of bottle, 5/6 types of sippy/straw/magic cups.
And the baby says no…
In fact the baby spat out the first formula every time… a week later I tried another one. Baby said ‘ok’ (well, not literally, she’s not baby genius) but she drank 20ml. And that was it. Apart from the <gross alert> explosive, mucus filled poops </gross alert> which happening every time I managed to get her to drink a mouthful (and apparently mean she’s intolerant to the formula). Which is all she ever drank.
This culminated in her deciding she wasn’t drinking it anymore. At the start of this week, we’d gone an entire day on a few sips of water. She was crying, I was crying, she was dehydrated but still refusing the formula. So I gave her breastmilk in a bottle. And she downed it. So, we know she can do it if she wants to! So I mixed formula in. She spat it at me.
So now formula has been shelved, poops are normal, baby is happy.. bank balance less happy as I bought an electric pump and paid to have it delivered the next day.
Now I’m trying to figure out how to deal with this at work – I will be spending my lunch breaks stuck in a meeting room with my new machine, being milked like a cow. Awesome.