Day: May 31, 2016

When Mommy is out of the room, Sierra watches Star Trek.

Nanny, Troy and Connie sent some excellent questions for Sierra.  Luckily, she actually stayed awake after a feeding for the first time this morning so I got to take her on a tour of the house and I proceeded to ask her the questions that were sent in.

Question: Does Sierra know how to knit yet?

Her response: “While I haven’t figured out how to knit yet, my Mom was crocheting for nine months so I managed to figure out how to do that.  I am pretty sure Mom was trying to make a scarf for an elephant’s snout because she never really stopped crocheting so I will see if I can continue and maybe make some mittens for the elephant.  Thanks for the question Nanny!  I’m glad that you are having fun in London.  Hopefully it is not too hot while you are down there!”

Question: Would Sierra like to go to a garage with me (Connie)?

Her response: “Absolutely!  I LOVE garage sales!  I felt bad that my parents had to miss the Great Glebe Garage Sale (GGGS) this year as it was on my due date.  The GGGS is an important day in my parents life because that was the location of their first date and they go every year!  But I got a taste of the garage sale when they went to Embrun instead and scored on a nice bocce ball set, a grass seed spreader and some other knick knacks.  Perhaps Aunt Connie would like to take me to my first Great Glebe Garage Sale?  I’ll slot you in for 2017.

P.S.  What good things have you found at garage sales this year?”

Question: Does Sierra like bourbon or scotch?

Her response: “Oh Uncle Troy, you know me too well…I can’t say no to either!  Plus I don’t mind if Dad sneaks in a drink at the same time as me!  Enjoy your time off as I know you are going back to work soon enough!  Take Nanny to Chaucer’s for the sausage platter!”

Sierra loves the questions so keep them coming.   She accepts questions in both official languages of Canada and because she is trilingual (she speaks French, English and Baby) she will respond in the appropriate language! She will try to find some time to answer them in between eating, pooping and sleeping.  She loved seeing the faces of her family members that she will end up meeting soon enough.

Sierra out!

How did Vero sneak a shirt like this one into the mix?

No word of a lie, this is the coke that came with my St-Hubert meal that we brought home last night!

Holy mackerel we were tired this morning!

We got home yesterday afternoon with some St-Hubert in hand and then it was go time.  Time to set up the house to mimic the hospital surroundings.  Set up the changing station with plenty of wipes (I might need to buy stocks in baby wipes), make sure the room temperature is a-ok, and overall set up the house to be functional.

For parents reading this, I’m just chatting about things they have already gone through.  The one thing that I didn’t know was that if we want to feed the kid every three hours, you start the timer for the three hours as soon as the kid STARTS feeding.  What the heck?  How fair is that?!  So when you are looking at this kid mow down for a couple of hours, you’re sitting there thinking “There goes my nap time!”  Sierra has an interesting habit of eating for a good hour, but then five minutes later wants some more.  So we weren’t sure how to curb that appetite (we laughed at the description of Barracuda in one of those baby books) but we think we figured something out.

But this morning was interesting where you start out knowing that you will be waking up around 3am, then you don’t know when you are going to get back to bed, then you realize that you don’t have much time to nap afterwards before the next feeding around 6am.  6am was rough, but sitting here at 11am I am actually feeling decent.  My Fitbit is an interesting tool right now as it tracks my sleep so I can see how I was super non functional around the 2 hour sleep mark, but now that I have six hours in me, I can tell that my energy is good and I can probably make it through the day with a catnap in the afternoon.

I’m sitting here chatting about myself, but I have to say that Vero is doing quite well and I’m pretty sure she has access to some adrenaline because she has way more energy than me!

We are trying our best to respond to emails and chat on FaceTime with people once in awhile.  If we haven’t got to you yet, don’t worry, we’ll get around to it.

Gotta run, some baby is making noises.  I did figure out how to connect the Bluetooth keyboard so these posts are quite a bit longer now.