All the news that fits, in between baby demands, anyway

I woke up this morning and hung out in bed for about an hour-Naomi was taking a nap, Cayne was emptying the dishwasher. Suddenly, a loud glass-crash sound from the kitchen and I startled, and in jumping out of bed and racing for the kitchen, I must have twisted awkwardly cause my left hip is sore.

Naomi is working very hard on mobility. It's amazing...she gets up on hands and knees and rocks, or she gets up and starts to move forward and then drops her head on the ground. She sometimes gets up on her hands and feet and moves forward and then face plants. The funniest though...she gets on her hands and knees in front of the mirror, rocks back and forth, banging her head into the mirror and then licks her reflection. She does this while I'm on the toilet, too. She's also learned to stick her tongue out at people when they stick tongues out at her. She was an absolute charmer at the endocrinologist's office the other day.

She's not a fan of food off a spoon, which is fine-I figure, she knows much better than I do when she's full, and she also gets to participate more in the social aspect of mealtimeand so, she "eats" things she can feed herself. I say "eats" because she still has no teeth, and so very little actually makes it from her hand to her digestive tract. This is fine because solid food is not supposed to be the majority of her diet right now. I do need to upload the pictures of her with a pickle which we took during entirelysonja's visit. She also had her first experience in the swimming pool and I may even have some really poor quality video of that.


We had an awesome staycation with entirelysonja and her family recently. It's a very different world being around a toddler and a preschooler though, and right now, I am grateful for my mostly very easy baby. I'm glad one usually gets to ease into the transition of parenting toddlers rather than facing it suddenly...especially now that Naomi has begun to express frustration at things she can't have. I will try and post some pictures of our staycation...I don't think I took many. We might have a picture of the dolphins at Sea World mating...I can now say that in addition to humans, I've seen cats, dogs, dolphins and tortoises have sex in front of me (not in a nature video or something, like where I saw the rhinos.)

I had an interesting experience with my endocrinologist recently. I had my med-check with her, and she offered to write me a new Metformin prescription if I needed one. I declined, and said I'd been thinking about adding another medication to the treatment plan, but that it wasn't compatible with pregnancy or nursing. She said to me, "Don't do it. That baby is far more important right now." This is a vastly different attitude than I got from her former NP, who was telling me that I'd never get pregnant, that I shouldn't try to get pregnant, etc. I mean, the woman had me in tears, and the thought of going back to the endocrinologist gave me panic attacks to the point where I canceled my first follow up with them, and started looking for a new doctor; the only reason I went back is because I hadn't found a new one and I was pregnant and needed someone to follow my thyroid. I love that this one though, is happy to treat my borderline but symptomatic thyroid, and wants me to not only be within a good range but is concerned with how I feel at certain points. I'd like to be a tiny bit lower than I am now, but I think if we were to up my dose, I'd end up uncomfortably hyperthyroid, and so we've compromised on where I'm at for now and if I need more, I'll get more next time, unless I get pregnant between now and next time I see her, in which case we'll probably up my dose pre-preemptively and then follow with frequent bloodwork.

One of my mommy groups has sort of broken up recently because of communication issues. Effectively, one person expressed concern over her own child's behavior at group, another responded but because of how she said what she said, the first person assumed that the second was calling her a bad parent. And she wasn't calling her a bad parent so much as saying she would handle similar situations differently...but she could have been kinder about how she said it, for sure. I'm not sure what will happen, but I stayed out of it. I've never parented a child the age of the one being discussed (he's about four) and therefore, can't really contribute much to the discussion.

There's not really anything exciting to say here...we're chugging along, Naomi is amazing, we're trying to figure out our plans for the winter holidays...Thanksgiving and December, and it's all just going forward. I'll try and get photos up soon of Naomi.