The three of us have gotten to be pretty good at getting out of the house! The weather since Henry's birth has been nearly perfect, maybe a little humid but overall just beautiful. This has led to us leaving the house at least once daily for the last 2 weeks. It is a new experience, leaving the house with a newborn, but it is so nice to be out amongst those in the "real world" since our world at home sometimes seems confining. Henry has been to Target, BabiesRUs, to the German festival Strassenfest, out for Thai and Ethiopian food (those were both just yesterday!) to Fenton and to Kirkwood to visit his grandparents, around our neighborhood in the stroller several times, and into a few grocery stores. His ideal mode of transport right now is a ring sling that the Foys handed down to me. I got some tips this week at Kangaroo Kids who make the sling (oh, Henry has also been to Kangaroo Kids!) on how to put him in the sling and make him comfortable there, and have used it daily since then. This allows me to carry him and still have my hands free and seems to make him feel secure and calm and he usually falls asleep.
The sling and the baby it contains are likely going to be making an appearance at a Cardinals playoff game very shortly. We have been offered 2 tickets from Andrea who has been my baseball game partner for more than a decade. Henry will be 5 weeks old when the Cardinals begin the National League Division Series and probably will be attending his first Cards game.
I need to post photos of the first three weeks of Henry's life. Posting photos is easier to do one handed than blogging, so I will do it shortly when he's back with me feeding. At the moment, he is asleep on Rob's chest and this is one of Rob's favorite things about Henry.
Mostly it makes me uneasy because this is daytime and I don't want him sleeping too much during the day even though its freaking adorable to see his tiny little arms folded up under his head lying on his dad. But you cannot wake a sleeping baby no matter how much you badly you know the night ahead will go. Instead, you do laundry, vacuum, or blog because you have two hands totally free.
And you look over at 2/3 of your little family and know how lucky you are.
The sling and the baby it contains are likely going to be making an appearance at a Cardinals playoff game very shortly. We have been offered 2 tickets from Andrea who has been my baseball game partner for more than a decade. Henry will be 5 weeks old when the Cardinals begin the National League Division Series and probably will be attending his first Cards game.
I need to post photos of the first three weeks of Henry's life. Posting photos is easier to do one handed than blogging, so I will do it shortly when he's back with me feeding. At the moment, he is asleep on Rob's chest and this is one of Rob's favorite things about Henry.
Mostly it makes me uneasy because this is daytime and I don't want him sleeping too much during the day even though its freaking adorable to see his tiny little arms folded up under his head lying on his dad. But you cannot wake a sleeping baby no matter how much you badly you know the night ahead will go. Instead, you do laundry, vacuum, or blog because you have two hands totally free.And you look over at 2/3 of your little family and know how lucky you are.
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