1) Robin is crying, pulling, and chewing.
2) Mom takes out her camera and by the time she gets it on and points it at him he has stopped crying …
3) and in moments is posing for his photo!
{this moment} – A [Sunday] ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. As inspired by Collecting the Moments … One by On e and SouleMama
{this moment} – A [Sunday] ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. As inspired by Collecting the Moments … One by One and SouleMama
I did not take any photos this week (June 17-23)!
So, here’s a quick update on Robin: After being weaned from his big medicines, he had another sedated Echocardiogram and a chest x-ray. The Cardiologist saw no more signs of hypertension in his lungs or heart and no significant ASD. He is considered ‘typical’ now! The Pulmonologist still saw some foggy shadows and a little bit of chest retractions, but Robin is gaining weight and maintains his oxygen blood saturation so he is considered ‘typical, but watching’. We’ll go back to see the Pulmonologist in October to see if we want to give Robin the synagis shots again to keep him from getting RSV.
Everything is going great! He is on the height and weight charts for his age (less than 10%, but he’s on the chart now!). He is still seeing a feeding team, but I think he’s doing fine with that – they’re just making sure he continues to progress through all the eating development he needs to.
Robin is enjoying standing on his own – what a neat trick! One of his cousins gave him a fire truck with a walker handle on the back and he thinks its so cool to push that around the house. Or kitchen chairs. No words yet, but he has started TALKING REALLY LOUDLY TO THE CATS. It’s all gibberish, but he has a great deal to say, at big volumes.
welp, next week should will have a photo!
{this moment} – A [Sunday] ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. As inspired by Collecting the Moments … One by One and SouleMama
{this moment} – A [Sunday] ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. As inspired by Collecting the Moments … One by One and SouleMama
Adventure People at the Enchanted Forest!
{this moment} – A [Sunday] ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. As inspired by Collecting the Moments … One by One and SouleMama
{this moment} – A [Sunday] ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. As inspired by Collecting the Moments … One by One and SouleMama
Yay! I finished Robin’s hospital scrapbook! I think it turned out well. I don’t have super-cute and involved layouts and decorations, but it’s still interesting to look at as well as read.
Here are a couple of my favorite pages. This first one I especially like because I used string to point to the things that were on Robin. I think this helped emphasize how bound he was and how it made people feel that he was unapproachable.
This one took a lot of time. At Doernbecher there was a family relations person who hosted luncheons and craft times. One of the things she had was “story beads”. She had made a list of common things families with babies in the NICU went through and paired a unique bead with each event. The idea was that you could string all these beads together to represent your child’s story. I decided to be super elaborate (of course) and made it a timeline. Each silver bead is a day starting with February 26th (the day I was put on bed rest). Each event I put immediately after the appropriate day. Finishing that up took a while (I just *had* to run to the bead store, now didn’t I?) but then, since it would be too thick and awkward in the scrapbook, I scanned the strand and deleted all the scanning junk around the beads before labeling all the beads! In the photo I’ve included the actual bead strand above the finished printed version. The strand will hang up in Robin’s room someday.
I’m leaving it out for a while so people can look at it, but then it’ll be packed away and brought out only once in a while until all the kids are older.
{this moment} – A [Sunday] ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. As inspired by Collecting the Moments … One by One and SouleMama
Well, not *completely* unexpected – I know I have seen people discussing “wet bags” as I’ve been reading up and shopping for our cloth diaper transition. But I didn’t think to apply it to me: I need wet bags! And, since I’m broke, I decided to make my own! I bought supplies for $7.80 at Joann’s (using coupons, etc) and made three wet bags. One is perfect for holding dirty dishes, another for prepared and clean cloth wipes, and the third is not ideal for the used diapers and wipes (yet). I sewed up each bag slightly differently. I primarily looked at this All Wrapped Up blog article (great photos, simple, efficient, and nicely finished instructions) and added my own methods as I went.
For all three I decided to put the shiny side of the PLU as the interior of the bag – open the bag and there is the shiny PLU. It made sense to me that if poo got smeared on it, it would come off the plastic more easily than the fabric side of the material. So, for my zipper I placed PLU (shiny side up), zipper (right side up) and fabric (wrong side up) before stitching, turning, and top stitching.
I also did not cut the bottom of the fabric pieces. I cut the material expecting the fold to be at the bottom of the bags. I left an opening for turning in the side of the cotton fabric. I decided the extra sewing might damage the PLU if I did it there and soiling might get in the exposed ridges of the stitching otherwise.
I created box corners on the two yellow bags and left the corners flat on the grey bag.
Now, my first bag had issues. Well, they all do , of some sort… I was using zippers I had on hand. This zipper wasn’t long enough and after it was installed and top stitched, it left big gaps between the zipper and the edge of the bag. I cut scraps of fabric and PLU and sewed them over the gaps.
I think it looks cool stitched up! This one is for clean wipes.
The second bag didn’t have any significant issues. I just don’t like how the bulk of the zipper makes the corners bulge out. This one is for used dishes and can be attached to the diaper bag strap.
This zipper was also a little short, but I prepared better and it fits relatively well.
The downside is, while it’s a good size to hold several wet diapers, the zipper opening is not very wide and requires two hands to put the dirty diapers in. This can be problematic when handling a squirrely naked baby! 😀
So, all done! They match my diaper bag and are darn effective. I more than payed for it in the use they’ll get and the hours of entertainment I got from playing with fabric! 😀
{this moment} – A [Sunday] ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. As inspired by Collecting the Moments … One by One and SouleMama