Thursday, March 26, 2009
A Day of Milestones
This morning, I decided to try bottle once again. This is after declaring bottlefeeding a failure and stopped trying for at least two weeks. (I did try it on Tuesday and he nibbled with it for a while, but didn't drink any.) I put about 80mL of breastmilk in the bottle and started feeding him while he was on his "throne" (a.k.a. his reclining chair). To my surprise, he was actually sucking from it! Seeing the success, and since there was some spillage from his mouth, I changed position and held him in the typical bottlefeeding position instead. He actually finished the full 80mL and demanded more!
This was the first actually successful bottlefeeding since I decided to go bottle-free when he was about 6 weeks old in the hope of improving breastfeeding. Maybe I should do it more often now, since he's pre-teething and started to bite me (which HURTS!) when I nurse him.
After I fed him, I put him on the floor while I checked out some flyers online. We have been putting him on the floor more often now to encourage him to practice rolling -- he had been successfully rolling from his back onto his side for almost two weeks now. To my surprise, when I looked back (he was behind me), he was on his tummy! The first rollover and no one saw it!
I immediately IM-ed Daniel about it, who claimed to see Isaac rolled so far onto his side last night that he would roll onto his tummy with the slightest poke. Then I hopefully tried to capture his second rollover on camera, but nothing happened during the 10-minute recording session.
After we came back from shopping in early afternoon, I left him on the floor again while I consulted a baby book whether he was having ear infection--he had been tugging his ear very often lately, fortunately the book said it's probably a teething sign. I was just sitting next to him, reading the book, and found him rolled so far onto his side (see attached picture). Then I witnessed it: he turned from his side to his tummy! Too bad I couldn't capture it in video.
That's a day with two milestones!
Sunday, March 22, 2009
I Have a Blog?
Oh right, I do...
You see, Isaac's sleeping pattern had been so messed up for the past two weeks that I couldn't get enough rest myself. As a result, everything else--my running training, my blog, heck, even my sleep--was pushed aside.
How bad, you ask?
He would sleep for an hour, and then be up for 2-3 hours and not going back to sleep. For the whole friggin' night. It didn't matter what I did--I tried staying by his side in his crib, I tried holding him and swaying, I tried pacing in my living room countless times, I tried feeding him--nothing seemed to put him to sleep. As a desparate measure (for my own sake), by the time the sun rose, I ended up pulling out the futon and co-sleep with him. Only THEN would he sleep for 4-5 hrs straight, with me feeding him on-and-off.
Things have improved since he had 4-month vaccines. He had been sleeping at least 8 hours straight--at night--since then. Hopefully this will stay.
Meanwhile, please check my YouTube channel for videos of Isaac.
You see, Isaac's sleeping pattern had been so messed up for the past two weeks that I couldn't get enough rest myself. As a result, everything else--my running training, my blog, heck, even my sleep--was pushed aside.
How bad, you ask?
He would sleep for an hour, and then be up for 2-3 hours and not going back to sleep. For the whole friggin' night. It didn't matter what I did--I tried staying by his side in his crib, I tried holding him and swaying, I tried pacing in my living room countless times, I tried feeding him--nothing seemed to put him to sleep. As a desparate measure (for my own sake), by the time the sun rose, I ended up pulling out the futon and co-sleep with him. Only THEN would he sleep for 4-5 hrs straight, with me feeding him on-and-off.
Things have improved since he had 4-month vaccines. He had been sleeping at least 8 hours straight--at night--since then. Hopefully this will stay.
Meanwhile, please check my YouTube channel for videos of Isaac.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Tax Time
March 2, 2009 has come and gone, along with it, the RRSP deadline.
This year, our tax planning has been a lot easier than we anticipated back in February 2008: with my much lower income in 2009 and possibly the future, it made most sense for me to maximize my RRSP contribution. For Daniel, he just want to make sure his net income sits below the next OHIP premium threshold (his net income ended up being about $300 below that dreaded bracket).
Since we both made sizable contribution (mine being considerably larger than his), I filed our taxes last week and is currently waiting for our refund. Between now and then, we're officially cash strapped!
Actually, there was another downside of making a huge RRSP contribution. We have started house hunting and are expecting/hoping to move this summer. (House hunting will be another post, I suppose.) Our RRSP has drained our cash and we have to rely on our current home as a source of down payment, either the proceeds of selling it or refinancing it if we decide to keep it as an investment. Luckily, with the interest rate going down another 0.50% yesterday, our mortgage interest amounts to about $4 a day!
This year, our tax planning has been a lot easier than we anticipated back in February 2008: with my much lower income in 2009 and possibly the future, it made most sense for me to maximize my RRSP contribution. For Daniel, he just want to make sure his net income sits below the next OHIP premium threshold (his net income ended up being about $300 below that dreaded bracket).
Since we both made sizable contribution (mine being considerably larger than his), I filed our taxes last week and is currently waiting for our refund. Between now and then, we're officially cash strapped!
Actually, there was another downside of making a huge RRSP contribution. We have started house hunting and are expecting/hoping to move this summer. (House hunting will be another post, I suppose.) Our RRSP has drained our cash and we have to rely on our current home as a source of down payment, either the proceeds of selling it or refinancing it if we decide to keep it as an investment. Luckily, with the interest rate going down another 0.50% yesterday, our mortgage interest amounts to about $4 a day!
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