Mira, the Budding Foodie

I used to think Cordy was quite the eater. I had no idea that my second daughter would be the real foodie. She can’t get enough of it, and spends most of the day wanting only to eat, eat, eat.

I’d call her our little food critic, but that title doesn’t exactly fit. Her report so far:

Breastmilk: Tasty, although quickly becoming passé

Oatmeal: Yum! Mixed with some of that milk is best.

Sweet potatoes: Yum! And the orange stains left behind when I spit up give mommy a headache.

Carrots: Yum! Tastes great, and is another great orange color for staining my clothes.

Apples: Yum! Great to eat cold when teething pain strikes. More, please!

Squash: Yum! Like sweet potatoes, only not quite as orange. Not as much stain power as the other veggies, but still delicious.

Bananas: Yum! What’s next?

See? If she was a critic, everyone would want her at their restaurants, and every dish would get a glowing review.

And she’s not content with the selection provided so far. She also eyes anything I eat, trying to swipe a bite and occasionally propelling herself forward on my lap to get her gums around my sandwich.

Sometimes I’m a little bothered that she’s no longer as interested in breastmilk, like it’s so three months and she’s nearly six months now. Of course, less nursing means fewer attempts at a nipplectomy from her teeth, so I guess there are upsides.

And she certainly doesn’t appear to be a starving baby.

Don’t listen to her. Got any spinach dip? Maybe nachos & cheese?

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PS – Look for a new review and a fun giveaway coming soon (before Thanksgiving) at Mommy’s Must Haves. Everyone loves free stuff right around the holidays, right?



What Happens When You Force Her to Use Full Sentences

“Juice!”

“Cordy, that’s not how you ask, is it?”

“Juice, please!”

“Can you say ‘Can I have some juice please?'”

“Some juice, please!”

“No, ‘Can I…have some…juice, please?'”

“Can’t have some juice please!”

“No, no, repeat after me.”

“After me.”

“No, I mean say this…’Can I have some juice please?'”

“I have some juice please?”

“Close! Now, say the whole thing.”

“The whole thing!”

“Ugh! This is going nowhere.”

“No, going to kitchen!”

“Can you ask for juice?”

“Can I… ask for juice, please?”

“Close enough.”

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PS – Another review is up! This time for an awesome music DVD called That Baby DVD. See what I thought about it over at Mommy’s Must Haves.



Parenting Is A Full-Contact Sport

And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

I’m still finding it hard to focus too long on my computer screen today thanks to a sudden meeting of Cordy’s occipital bone with my nasal bone on Sunday.

We were up very early in the morning, thanks to her Houdini ability to open her bedroom door, even with a doorknob safety cover on it. (Note to safety device makers – this one DOES NOT WORK!) In my half-asleep state, I prepared breakfast, turned on the TV, and promptly found a pillow for my head on the couch. Soon, Cordy had eaten breakfast and came over to the couch, wanting to snuggle. She crawled up next to me, facing out with her head on the pillow. I pulled the blanket up to cover both of us and tried to return to my semi-asleep state.

I don’t know why she did it, but she suddenly jerked her head back quick and fast, sending the back of her (hard!) skull into the soft tender parts of my face. For a moment, I could actually “see” pain as everything looked brighter, then darker. White hot electric pain shot through my nose.

For her part, Cordy seemed unaffected, although she did climb off the couch, rub the back of her head, and say, “I have a boo-boo, mommy. Kiss it better?” Somehow, the last thing I wanted to do at that moment was kiss the sore spot on her head that resulted from her attempt to make my nose concave.

I don’t think my nose is broken, but it’s quite possible she cracked the bone. It did bleed, but no black eyes. (Although how can you tell if you have permanent dark circles under your eyes?) Two days later, and I can still feel the ache up into my forehead and eye sockets. But my nose isn’t crooked, so it just has to heal on its own.

Aaron told me the story of how he broke his mother’s nose as a toddler in a similar incident. All I can say is that I really didn’t want to be a part of this family tradition.

Never let your guard down, folks. There are no personal foul penalties in parenting. Investing in a helmet might be a good idea, too.

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Speaking of rough and tumble children, I just reviewed The Daring Book for Girls over at Mommy’s Must Haves. Somehow I think this will be Cordy’s favorite book when she’s older.



Haiku Friday: Toys and Villains

Haiku Friday
Lead paint, toxic drugs
No toy is safe anymore
Wood blocks for Christmas?

First there was small magnets posing a danger, then lead paint, and now poisonous chemicals that can lead to a coma or death. Seems like every toy is a little death bomb waiting to pounce on our kids. I may be sticking to organic fabric and wood when shopping for gifts for the girls.

Ninth of November
Halloween is over now?
Tell that to my kid.

I’m not sure which is worse – listening to Cordy beg to watch Mickey’s House of Villains for the 78 gazillionth time, or having to sit through it again. Cordy will not accept that Halloween is over, and I’m slowly going insane from it. I think even at Christmas she’ll be walking up to Santa, saying “Look, mommy, a red monster! Happy Halloween!”

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And Then She Bit My Nipple Off

We have a slight situation here at Casa de Mommy Story. You already know Mira has teeth. Two sharp bottom ones, to be specific. She’s chewing on anything she can with those two new teeth. Including me.

I’ve been trying to use the advice people have given me. When she bites me while nursing, I yelp, hoping to startle her and make sure she doesn’t do it again. It’s a good theory, and it worked the first time, but now my screams of pain are countered with laughter. She thinks it’s funny. Not sure who she got that sense of humor from.

I also tried putting her down and stopping the feeding session when she bites. She gets mad and screams her head off, as expected, but it doesn’t seem to do much to discourage her from biting.

Another bit of advice was to push her head into my breast when she bites, making her unable to breathe and then she’ll let go and associate biting with an unpleasant experience. However, Mira is a bite-and-release girl, so it’s hard to catch her in the act. By the time I feel the bite, the damage is already done and she’s pulled off, smiling at me. (I told you she had a sick sense of humor.)

I even tried buying a nipple shield to give me a thin layer of silicone between us, but she refuses to nurse with it. Re-fus-es. Completely. Like it’s some kind of abomination of the natural order and using it would be akin to admitting there is no God.

We’ve come to a breaking point, though. Yesterday Fang (my new nickname for her) bit me hard enough to draw blood. I have three small gashes on my right nipple and one on my left. I tried to nurse her again overnight, and she bit me hard enough that I worried she bit through my nipple. (I checked, and she didn’t – but at 2am when you’re half-asleep, you jump to those conclusions from the pain.) I’m too sore to nurse on one side, and also too sore to pump.

To all of my hardcore lactation readers out there – I want to know how you survived biting? What did you do to discourage it? If we can’t stop this, I think weaning is in the near future. I don’t want to wean – bottles and formula are such a pain, plus formula is expensive. And when she’s not biting, I like having the ability to breastfeed her. But I can’t let her turn my nipples into hamburger.

Any advice is appreciated.

(And it’s not like Fang has a lack of teething toys. Anything is a teething toy to her.)

That’s one way to hold a spoon.
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