learning curve

Since Iris is our first child there is a lot that we don't know about typical babyness. It seems pretty clear that my concern about Iris over the last several days was due to teething. She has a strong affinity for frozen washcloths in her mouth and Tylenol certainly helped. An added benefit to Iris's teething is that she has gone back to breastfeeding full time and is almost never using a pacifier. This make the anti-plastic person in me very happy. I also had the ingenious idea to turn our ice maker on in the freezer. So now we have ice with which to cool her tender gums.

We took Iris to my friend Jill's baby's name ceremony on Saturday. This is a Jewish ceremony. Several of Jill's girlfriends were there along with their babies. It was fun to see all the child energy in the room but I was also preoccupied with trying to get Iris to take her bottle [which she did not].


An update on the house: we are getting all the floors done or re-done this week and the contractors should be done today. We will then work to clean up very well and get rid of any spiders. Evan will install some ceiling fans and then we'll begin moving things in. We are waiting for our kitchen cabinets to arrive, still need to buy a fridge, and then get the concrete countertop installed. My dad and brother plan to come up for a weekend to help us do a lot of the moving and since my brother happens to know a whole lot about tree pruning and tree care he is going to take care of some of our yard mess.