Okay. Enough on the Painting.

Sheesh. You people DO know what you're talking about. And it's scaring me. We've certainly learned our lesson.

- Priming is a good thing.
- Rollers suck.
- There's a reason why people pay other people to paint.

Now. Moving along to more important things. Like either I have the world's most vicious cold or I have allergies. The cold I had kicked my butt for five straight days. That's long for a cold for me. Then I was taking allergy medicine. Then I was feeling fine.

And now I'm stuffy again and coughing weird things up. It can't be another cold, can it? (Granted both my kids are stuffy, but cripey -- change of season, new place = one very stuffy house).

And while you're at it, care to recommend a fun place to go (flying is fine, of course) that's warm and doesn't require passports. You know, since I don't have passports for my wee ones. The huz has four days off in a row before we do this whole "weeee we're moving again for a little while I'm going to stick my head in a toilet" thing.

Of course, considering my son can't breathe through is nose (TEETH I TELL YOU TEETH!) and he's not sleeping (I saw 1-3am with a happy awake baby last night -- that is not good), I'm not sure I want to go anywhere.

All I have to say is that after this is all over, I had better see teeth and somersaults. Or brain surgery. Seriously. He better have learned how to operate after all this no sleep crap.

And a big shout out to ImpostorMom who pleasantly introduced herself at Baby Loves Disco today. Her family is adorable -- AND, she's this uber baby food maker that is making me feel like a total slacker for just giving Drew orange food and some rice puffs. I have no idea what to feed the kid and I'm blaming his rash attacks last month.

Oh, and I'm lazy.

Anyway, who's got a good schedule of when/what to introduce?

Comments

[jaelithe]

Allergy medicine can make you feel better even if you just have a cold and don't have allergies. Most allergy medicines contain histamine blockers, which block the part of the immune response that produces stuffy noses and watery eyes. Blocking part of your immune response will relieve some of your symptoms whether they are caused by a real response to a virus OR an overreaction to pollen.

I am personally hoping you just had two colds in a row due to a stress-depressed immune system, because, sudden mystery allergies in the middle of everything else you're dealing with? Yuck.

[ImpostorMom]

Just found this one too.

http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/solidfood8to10montholdbaby.htm

[ImpostorMom]

HA! Uber baby food maker. That's funny, but thanks. I tried more pasta with Boog tonight and it didn't go over well as quick as it went in it came back out.

I was just about to pull out my Baby's First Year week by week book after our conversation to see what it says about moving to table foods. I long since gave up actually reading each week but I know there is a chart in the front of it as well. Also, I think Earth's Best has some info on their site. http://www.earthsbest.com/baby_nutrition/feeding_schedule_print.php

For a four day trip I would actually suggest Chattanooga. It's only a 2 hour drive or so and there is tons to do with kids. I grew up there and we recently went back and acted like tourists and I was pleasantly surprised.

[Jill]

While the Super Baby Food book will make you feel like a lousy mom for not being the Martha Stewart of all Moms, it does have great food feeding charts in it. Maybe you could get one out of the library and just copy the charts. My kids ate sweet potatoes, bananas and rice cereal for several months before I added anything new.

Beach? I love St George Island on the panhandle- can't fly directly there though.