- Now that this baby lost his cord stump and has a real belly button like a regular human, he smells delightful now. Mmm, fresh baby head.
- (He did have about a day and a half there right before his cord fell off where he smelled awful. Like rotting belly button. Since that is what actually was happening there.)
- But now he’s been bathed and shined up and is quite lovely again.
- I am doing much better at keeping up with stuff this time. I learned a lot of lessons after Elizabeth was born and I made arrangements this time to avoid making the same mistakes again. And lo, it was better.
- Elizabeth is sleeping very poorly. Very.
- This is Matt’s problem, but it’s spilling over into the rest of the house. (Not that there is a lot more house.)
- We broke out the Halloween clothes today. Yippee! I love holidays. And there isn’t a lot better than dressing up kids for holidays. And now I have two kids (TWO) and I can make them MATCH.
- I called 1-800-Flowers just now because someone sent us a very nice flower arrangement and 2/3 of the flowers in it were broken in half when they arrived. They want to refund the money to the person who sent them to me and have them reorder them for me. No. Just no. That’s rude. I am really annoyed by this. I am not going to call someone up who sent me a nice gift and say “by the way, they were all broken, so I need you to order them again for me.” Just no. So I told the guy on the phone that this was totally unacceptable and I will have Matt call back later and lay some smack down. (Matt and I have a good cop/bad cop customer service relationship. So he will go all bad cop on them. As soon as he wakes up from his nap.)
- The flowers smell wonderful, even if some of them are broken, and they’ve made the whole downstairs smell really good. Between fresh flowers and baby heads, we have a lot of good smells here. If I had enough energy to bake bread or cookies or something, it might be enough to kill someone with nose happiness.
- Elizabeth is…showing the effects…of being stuck at home. The reason I do some kind of activity pretty much every day on a normal basis is because Elizabeth needs some kind of activity on a regular basis. She’s going a little
feralinsanestir crazy. - Relatives arrive tomorrow for an eight day stay. (They are not staying in our actual house, thank goodness. I am not ready for that, no matter how much we like them.) Matt said something like “it will be nice to have someone here for Elizabeth, so she won’t be so bored.” I said “don’t you remember how Elizabeth gets all manic when we have company?” And Matt said “oh, yeah. Never mind.”
- I’m just saying that Elizabeth will be happy when we go back to real life again.
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Steve used 1-800 flowers for a valentines day about 6 years ago. THREE tries and each time the flowers were old, wilted and didn’t even smell like flowers. Such a pity.
I need to come smell the baby again now that he is all fresh (JK) -he smelled lovely to me the other day, but he was clothed and I was too overwhelmed by the cuteness to notice anything else.
BTW-you can’t be going and giving us baby pix every day and then stop. I demand another adorable picture!
1-800-Flowers is famous in our house b/c my husband had to go off on them years ago. We refer to it as “going 1-800-Flowers” on someone. Glad sweet boy smells sweet again! That rotting stump smell is awful! It took D 4 weeks to lose his and that last week was horrific.
Glad little guy is smelling good again. The smell of new baby is pricessless.
OH what a bad deal on the flowers. I’ve ordered from them 1 time and haven’t ordered again – I love proflowers though – they have a guarantee if they die w/in 7 days they replace the entire bunch again. Love that.
I love the photos of your little guy – he’s so adorable w/ the bear that his big sis got him. That has to make your heart just pitter patter.
Good luck w/ your family visiting!!!
When I had my third miscarriage, my mom wanted to order me flowers. So she called 1800 flowers and they told her they had the perfect arrangement to send me. I got a vase, with a few flowers, and a lot of dried up dead sticks. Nothing like dead sticks to cheer you up after a loss.
It sounds like you are doing great!!! So happy that it is a bit easier this time. I found that with Emma, too. You are just more prepared and relaxed.
As for Dibits “settling in”, I found it took Will about two weeks to really acclimate to the “new normal”. And then again at about four months, when the baby becomes more engaging. And then again when they learn to walk (and steal their toys). Basically, every time Emma goes through a milestone phase, there is a readjustment, but it gets easier each time.
Oh, and MY 1800 Flowers story? Six months ago, I ordered flowers for a coworker whose fiance had passed away very unexpectedly. The flowers sent to the funeral home? Were for the birth of a new baby boy. Ironic and completely inappropriate and they refused to refund the money because they had delivered flowers as promised.
I just had to explain the cord stump to my husband. He thought I was making it up to freak him out. I’m really looking forward to seeing his face when he sees it ;)
Mmmmmm, love the clean, sweet baby smell.
Sorry about the flower debacle.
Hope Dibits settles into a new normal soon.
When you figure out how to get back to real life, let me know. We’re still stuck in new baby #3.
Yay for fresh baby head! But boo! hiss! about the flowers. I hope Matt was able to straighten them out (and then reading the experiences of other commenters and I think I may never order flowers again). And no words of wisdom on helping Elizabeth adjust, but hoping that things get better sooner rather than later.
After all the comments, I kind of want to order something from 1-800-Flowers just to see what would happen.