Golden Pig Tales

Ezra is in infant 2 now, where everyone eats solid foods. The other day when I dropped off Ezra, I noted that there is a drawer full of baby food jars, and each jar has a name on it. I pulled out my breastmilk bottles and marked them with the bright red tags, and then took out my plastic container of pears for Ezra that I cut up that morning. When I put the pears in the fridge, I think I noticed one of the babies roll his eyes at me, like “oh, there’s Ezra’s crazy hippie mom who makes all of Ezra’s food.” Actually though, I just opened a can of pears and cut them up - not very hard. The can of pears is $1, and I can feed Ezra 3 times from that can. The little jar of baby food pears is $0.55, and only feeds Ezra once. But I do make a lot of Ezra’s baby food. It’s easy to bake or boil or steam vegetables and run them through the food processor. Then I use the ice cube method of storing the food in the freezer. It’s very handy! This weekend I took it one step further and made “Baby’s first chicken casserole” from the baby food cookbook. I guess it turned out OK, because Ezra doesn’t seem to mind eating it : )

Now that Ezra has learned crawling to a stand, he is learning sitting from a stand. The act of sitting from a stand is an act that isn’t yet perfected. It’s a controlled fall upon his butt. His technique is improving.

At first, sitting from a stand was a direct fall from standing that was like a tree falling in the forest. This usually resulted in him falling flat and possibly causing pain he could only express with a quick whimper. Then he learned to control the fall from a stand to land on his butt. This technique has helped avoid any major trauma, but does have the occasional misfall that makes the journey to butt continue with the head to the floor. NOW, Ezra is beginning to bend his knees and lower his butt so butt hovers over the ground before he lets gravity take over and finish the process of going from standing position to a sitting position. This technique lessens the changes of any fall trauma and seems to be furthering his overall desire to stand and walk and sit.

He climbed his first stairs today, and I can still only think of the poop. He came home from the doctor’s appointment with a clean bill of health (no ear infection), and I can still only think of the poop. He was fussing all morning making the day of working at home difficult, and I can still only thing of the poop.

The poop filled the diaper and the back of the onesie. He needed a cleaning with wipes then needed a bath. Then I needed to clean up the diaper changing area and then sterilize the pacifier that had been stepped on by a poop foot.

Hooray! Hooray! It’s Ezra’s Birthday today!

Hooray! Hooray! It’s Ezra’s Birthday today!

Hooray! Hooray! It’s Ezra’s Birthday today!

Hooray! Hooray! It’s Ezra’s Birthday today!

Hooray! Hooray! It’s Ezra’s Birthday today!

Hooray! Hooray! It’s Ezra’s Birthday today!

Hooray! Hooray! It’s Ezra’s Birthday today!

Hooray! Hooray! It’s Ezra’s Birthday today!

Two cats, Jigga and Sassy, live with -v-, Ezra and me.

Before Ezra began to crawl, contact with the Jigga And Sassy was minimal. Jigga would usually try to rub against Ezra to rub some fur off or mark him with scent. Sassy would sit by Ezra and appear to be watching over him. Now Ezra is crawling, Ezra and the cats are interacting more.

Sassy, who is friendly and loving, likes her personal space. Sassy and Ezra have interacted physically, but not much. Sassy sometimes gets freaked out when Ezra begins to crawl or fling his arms, and Sassy usually walks away.

Jigga, our alpha cat, and Ezra, however, have began to play with each other more and more. Ezra can and will crawl over to Jigga and begin to pull on Jigga’s hair in some deep petting way. Ezra will try to grab Jigga’s tail or butt. Ezra and Jigga will sometimes vie over a toy. And most of all Ezra and Jigga vie for -v-’s attention. It is this want for -v-’s attention that is probably the cause of most tension of their growing relationship.

So far both the cats have yet to strike out at Ezra as they do at each other. Ezra and the cats appear to be growing to live with each other.

I can still feel the tension down my spine from the sound Ezra just made.

I am now being soothed with the sounds of his snores.

I forgot Ezra’s Fussiness Discussion Chart which is still a discussion chart because I try to talk with Ezra about his fussiness. I forgot to ask and discuss the second question and topic Hunger.

I think I need to update the Fussiness Discussion Chart with Possible Ear Ache, Coughing, Snot Stuffing Noise, Need To Shit, Fall On Head, Fall And Tired, Hungry For Milk, Hungry For Food?

Tonight it was Hungry For Milk with Teething that woke him that we discussed. I only said fuck once during the entire discussion.

The snotty nose of Ezra is no longer lonely for there is a cough. Though his sleep last night for Ezra wasn’t deep causing sleeplessness for -v-, he appears to be getting better, but -v- is still sleepy. Fortunately, the nose of Ezra is not as runny with snot. However, the cough remains.

Unfortunately, -v- and I are having some of the symptoms of Ezra’s cold. -v- appears to be now more effected by the cold, but I have been feeling some of the symptoms. Symptoms that are becoming familiar once again after what feels like months since we all have had our last cold. I was almost beginning to think we had some how become more immune to all versions of the cold virus in our living area after suffering months of continuous sickness, but it seems just like Ezra finds every dirty spot on the floor while crawling that Ezra can also find a cold.

Ezra is busy making new sounds this week! He’s starting to be able to make the basic sounds of d, g, and m. Today he was saying things like “guh-guh-duh-muh?” and guh-guh guh-guh guh-guh, duh duh duh duh ssssttttttssss!!!!! (that last one is sort of a spitting hissing sound that he’s also learned recently).   It seems likely that he’ll soon be able to say muh-muh or duh-duh, and maybe Kalab and I will think he’s talking about us, even though he will more likely just be practicing these new sounds like he does every day.

And Kalab wanted me to write about Ezra’s poo roll-ups. Every once in a while, Ezra’s poop is sort of dry and flattened to his diaper, and it reminds me of fruit roll-ups, except, well, made of poo.  When it’s in the fuzzibunz, and I go to knock some of the poo into the toilet, this sort of poo even peels off the diaper much like the fruit roll-up would peel off the cellophane wrapper. Ezra had a poo roll-up today, but this time it stuck to his bun instead of the diaper, so I had to use a wipe to unpeel it. ewwwww.

Ezra is experiencing some thing that makes him wake and cry. We believe it is the teething of teeth seven and eight because when waking and crying he wants to press down upon the area of gums where his next teeth should push through the gums. He is also drooling a lot.

Of course with the knowledge of ear infection 1 and ear infection 2 we are always looking for signs of ear infection and so far see none, but who knows…

We do know he has had  a snotty nose since yesterday and a snotty noses can annoy Ezra when he sleeps.

I do know yesterday and last night were not days and nights when Ezra slept much. And it is probably this lack of sleep that makes the suspected teething pain more painful and snotty nose more annoying.

And then he talked! Then he flew! And then he landed on the toilet and took poo! And then he said for me to write to you, „April fool.”