entering the sublime

Guess What?!, its Fall Barfest (that's Barf Fest, not Bar Fest, in case you were wondering :P) 2007 here in the W house...... Ben started last night when I was picking him up at daycare and has been unable to keep anything other than a sip of water down (and FURIOUS when I don't fill his cup). He's kept some water and motrin down since 6, but now its moved through to the other end......

Ben woke up around 6 and we were able to get a little water and motrin in him and FINALLY get him to sleep again (on the floor in his room with me next to him) around 7. Crossing my fingers he'll be not the wee beastie today.....

AND I forgot! In between the barfing, he's a angry strong very squirmy monkey. I think I've been headbutted about a dozen times, and its a good thing I dont have exeternal reproductive organs, or else I'd be talking in a high voice now.

I'm guessing it will hit me on Saturday.
And Judd on Monday

from a *technical* standpoint, not a fan of this - Ben's face is out of focus and didn't have enough natural light, so popup flash came on and didn't have enough time to get the speedlight...................but had I done all of that, would have missed the fun...

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( more photos, some big! )

full disclosure: did some adjusting of midtones in photoshop - it seems that most of my outdoor shots are 1 stop overexposed for my tastes.....

overall VR lens notes:
--I need to get more comfortable with panning.
--REALLY impressed how quickly it focuses
--love that a tulip lens hood came with it - never had one before and loved it outside today
--think that the VR is more 'valuable' for zoom than for lower light, esp considering my subject matter these days.

Thus far, quite happy!

~Brought Ben into work for the afternoon yesterday (it was bring you kid to work day, after all!) I brought him in the stroller and carried him in the sling on my hip, which is something that I haven't done in ages.  He fit perfectly in there, and the bright green sling looked nice with my shirt(:P) He was awesome - we visited a few coworkers for a little while, then I plopped him down on a blanket with a bucket of cheerios, cup of water and some toys. He entertained himself for about 90 minutes.    I miss my little coworker today :(

~Judd has his wisdom teeth out on Wed.  He's doing about a billion times better than I did 15 years ago, but all of mine we impacted and none of his were.  Last night, Ben at more 'solid' food than Judd did.  ha!

~I don't usually get sentimental or happy about the news these days, but the story about Stephen Hawking riding the vomit comet is a great story.  Why hadn't he done this before??

~there was a story on the news (yesterday's Today show?) about the reemergence of Wet Nurses.  Some women pay $1k a week for someone else to nurse their kid!  I'm super pro-bf, but if I couldn't for some reason, my kid would be getting formula. I MIGHT investigate a milk bank, and could maybe fathom having a trusted friend/family who was currently BF feed him on an emergency basis, but regularly?  uh no.

~in a similar vein, was watching Planet Earth / Shallow Seas and learned that a 1 year old Blue Whale drinks 137 gallons of milk a day.  WOAH!

~I finally got my work desktop computer converted to a laptop/workstation.  I've got a Dell Latitude D260, which works just fine, but the screen sucks.  I've been REALLY spoiled with my Mac....   It IS nice to be able to connect wirelessly at home, though, but the whole touchpad/eraser curser thing sucks.  Again, Apple's seems so much easier to use.

Apparantly the Fairies flew in and stole my baby and replaced him with a Baby Who Does Not Sleep.

We've been lucky up until recently.....
Ben is 10 months old and STTN(7 - 7) from about 3 months until 7 months.
From 7-10 months, usually woke up once between 3:30 and 6, I nursed him, and he'd sleep until 8:30

The past few nights:
sleep at 7/8ish without a fuss
12:00 wake,scream uncontrollablly, fall asleep w/o nursing but with us going in, patting him, cuddling,
12:30, wake, scream, fall asleep WITH nursing
1:15-ish, wake, scream, fall back asleep without nursing, but with the holding/patting. Sometimes give him teething tablets at this time
3:00 - wake, fuss, puts self back to sleep
6:00 - wake, fuss, nurse, back asleep
7:30 wake for good in happy playful mood.


He's teething a little bit, but nothing too badly. Not sick (well, always has a cold, but not worse than normal)....

I'm a bit embarassed to admit that I haven't read any of the sleep books.....because he has no problems at bedtime!! Are there any that you can recommend for handing the freakish wake-all-night long kid?


Off for more coffee, and I don't even DRINK coffee.

Okay kids, the paper products beast in me is in full effect -- I'm working on birth announcements. I'm going to pick one from Amber's In a baby carriage. She's undergone some changes since I last looked, and while I still love the double sided panelcards, its def. cheaper (we're talking a bout 50% cheaper) to do the photocards.

I had planned on putting our website/Benjamin's photo site/LJ info on the cards, but can't have that printed up with the photocards. So my quandry......how to include this without it being a pain?


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