Daily Archive for July 3rd, 2007

In preparation for our trip – Alternate Sleeping Option Part I

Published on Tuesday, July 3, 2007 in Claire, From the offline blog, Milestones, Parenting 101, Sleep and Travel. 0 Comments

I can’t wait for our trip to Santa Fe in August.

One of our friends is letting us borrow their pack-n-play as an alternate sleeping location option for Claire. We used to travel with the PeaPod, an incredible pop-up like tent contraption. It was awesome, because it packs up so small and is incredibly light. It worked when she was littler, but now that her head touches the top of the tent, she freaks out. And, really, who can sleep with all the screaming?

I still can’t get Claire to sleep in the pack-n-play, but for the record, I haven’t really tried extremely hard. She won’t sleep in it if she can see her crib, so I’ve moved it into our room. I half-heartedly tried today, and gave up.

I would put it in my office, but we don’t have the a/c unit in here yet, and it’s too hot. Plus, on the trip, odds are, the pack-n-play will be in with our bed anyway, so it should be a relatively realistic test. We’re also going to look at some tent options tonight and see if we can find something that has a lot of mesh and is taller than the PeaPod.

We’ll use the trip to the Midwest as a test run for whatever option we choose and adjust as necessary.

We still have a little less than two weeks to figure it out. I’m a little leery of putting her through a lot of trauma right now, at least until she has the stitches out. But I’m sure we’ll figure something out. Neither Daddy nor Momma wants to share a bed with Claire, because she does so well in her crib. That will be the very last option, I guess. So, that’s why we’re trying desperately to find an alternate option. I should be thankful she sleeps so well in her crib. She begs to sleep in her crib. Some people would give major body parts for that to happen with their own children. :)

Add this to the list of things I wished I didn’t know.

Published on Tuesday, July 3, 2007 in Are you bleeding?, Drama, From the offline blog and Parenting 101. Closed

We all know that you’re supposed to use cold water when removing blood stains from clothing, but did you know that you can use “Woolite PetStain & Odor Remover +Oxygen” to get human blood out of your carpet?

Just use cold water, some of this spray and a little tiny bit of elbow grease. No, this is not an officially endorsed usage for the above product.

Also? The sales person who sold us the chair and the couch said it was made of this incredible fabric that would resist stains, and that there wasn’t a stain we wouldn’t be able to remove.

Apparently, blood isn’t on the exceptions list! The fabric on our pillows and furniture is officially AWESOME.

You can’t even tell anything happened in the living room, let alone something that involved three or four firefighters and two paramedics.

Residual traumatic images

Published on Tuesday, July 3, 2007 in Are you bleeding?, Claire, Drama, From the offline blog, Parenting 101 and Random Thoughts. 0 Comments

I’m just now finally starting to get the image of the impact of Claire’s accident out of my head. It was the most awful thing I’ve seen in real life. Quentin Tarantino would have been impressed with the aftermath in our living room. When people say head wounds bleed a lot, they mean it!