Movie madness…
I feel so behind on blogging lately- I have had some movies to upload of Noah for ages- some are recent and some are from a couple of weeks ago and yet I am only now getting around to posting them. Some are long- so if you skip them I won`t mind- they are more for my mum anyway. Whenever I take movies too I promptly forget that they will not display up the right way once I upload them to the computer- oh well, those who want to watch might need to turn their heads a little…oh and excuse my commentary- it isn`t like he is up to talking for himself yet!
I put some wiggles on while I did some cleaning and came back to him bopping away…
He squeels a lot now- I tried to catch in on camera but he went strangely quiet and then got grumpy because he wanted to grab my camera.
Playing
I have a good one of him eating too but I guess it is still on the camera…
Back to been behind on blogging. I follow too many blogs- I loved into my reader today for the first time in 5 or 6 days and had over 1000 posts to read- not that I read them all. I have crafty blogs, news sites and cooking blogs come into my reader too so they add up to a lot (sometimes I skim, sometimes I just say “mark as read”) but even then, I still have a lot of other stuff to get through and now, since Noah sleeps less during the day and I have other stuff I need to do at night, I don`t really get much time to read blogs. I still love it though. I still love the community I am apart of through blogging and the friends I have made I just don`t have hours each day to sit reading everything- so my favourites go to the top of the pile and if I have time for others later then I check them as well. Anyway- to those of you who used to get comments from me all the time, but now don`t I`m sorry- I still read but sometimes by the time I read your posts I am probably a couple days late or the baby wakes up before I get to comment.
I had my mummy English class here again today- it went well. It is hard though because the mummies want to learn but they have to of course jump up and follow their kids around. I really need a gate I think. I block off the three rooms but our living room/dining room/kitchen is all one big room (with the kitchen off to the side) and one boy in particular is just a little nuts. He was obsessed with opening and closing our rice cooker today as well as opening and closing the fish grill under the stove. Oh and opening and closing our bins in the kitchen. So pretty much anything that opened and closed had him running around the apartment. I originally thought the mums wanted their KIDS to be exposed to English but it is actually themselves that want to learn which is fine- I just feel bad because of the noise of the kids and their been 5 or 6 people (there was 5 today) they don`t get much chance to practice. That said I charge for an hour but they usually stay for almost 2 hours by the time we do coffee and cake at the end…
I have fun though. And I do like the extra money. I might separate the class into 2 groups of 3 though…if they would be okay with that. One mum said she might want to do private lessons as she is more interested in learning basic vocabulary and stuff she can use with her son.
For July I am also working on Friday`s for a couple of hours in West Tokyo- bit of a commute but transport is paid and I can take Noah. So that will be nice. Not sure if anything will come of it from August but that is okay as it is a bit far anyway. If something did come of it, and the money was worth it and Noah travelled well for July then I would definitely consider doing a couple of hours there each week too.
Any work where I can take Noah with me is great! I don`t really want to return to full-time work anytime soon but part-time stuff is great for now. Bit of extra cash and gets us out of the house (or gets me to clean the house since people come here! HAHA! Ideally I need a bit more though- I have the once a month mummy class, once a month private student and then for July I have the classes out in West Tokyo. If the West Tokyo classes don`t go anywhere ( I am subbing for July but if they get more students who want classes they might start some more) then I will definitely need something else, preferably out this way. I am not opposed to putting Noah into part time daycare once a week or having my MIL watch him- Shun looked into the daycare for me and there are a couple places within 15 minutes walk that charge 2500yen a day ($30) – although Noah still will not take a bottle so at the moment it isn`t an option but definitely something to think about when I come back from Australia.
For us it is definitely more a financial thing than me actually wanting to go back to work. Not that I am against working I just think that the more time Noah (and future children) spend with me then the better their English will be. But if I want to go back to Australia each year or at least once every 18 months then I have to make some money, even if it is just a little.
We are also trying to save for a house. We want to buy in the next couple of years (probably in the next 3 years) and we are readjusting out budget this weekend. I have to update all the bank books on Friday and do some money transferring (to pay off the credit card which I put the Australia tickets on!) so that we can sit down and make a plan. We have been making some decisions about houses lately actually- we have decided we definitely want a house either new or less than 10 years old, we want to stay in Chiba either in Funabashi or Ichikawa and Shun would prefer we stay on the Sobu line but that is not a 100% definite. It is fun thinking about houses though!
Noah still has no teeth. I keep thinking they will pop up since he has really grumpy periods, chews on anything, drools on everything, and I give him approximately 3 or 4 frozen teethers or facewashers to chew on each day. But, alas, still no teeth. Not that I am complaining- I just kind of wish he would stop TEETHING if he is not actually going to get teeth. Maybe we will have 3 or 4 pop out at a time?
I had to take Noah to the doctor last week because he got constipated- I guess from eating more solids lately.
So if you get quesy stop reading cos I am going to write about poo! The doctor was at the new clinic but he was old Dr M – it seems that the clinic is run by young Dr M and old Dr M- a father and son team but the older doctor only works 2 days a week (Tues and Sat) where as the younger doctor works mon, wed,fri and sat. Anyway old Dr M was just as nice as young Dr M so all good there. He gave me some medicine for Noah and said not to be too concerned (Noah had not pooed in 4 and a half days by this time and was sleeping CRAP because of it and constantly TRYING to poo I thought) – anyway long story short, as well as the medicine I got some home enemas. Yeah, something you really should never have to give your child is an enema. But I did it. And it wasn`t so bad and Noah didn`t cry and I have 6 more in case it happens again. Holy crap (excuse the pun!) there was a lot of poo 30 minutes afterwards though!
I am now only giving rice cereal every second day for breakfast usually mixed with some fruit. I am trying to limit banana`s and pureed apple as apparently they don`t help with constipation either. So he has had rice cereal with prunes or plums lately. Or mango or papaya by itself. His dinners this week (since I made heaps yesterday) are peas, brocolli, avacado, carrots, spinach or pumpkin (the spinach and pumpkin were still in the freezer)…I don`t think he actually likes eating much yet though. He will usually do the first couple of bites no problem but gets bored and frustrated after 15 minutes or so and has not usually eaten so much by then. I mix some of the veggies together sometimes like tonight he had peas and brocolli mixed together and last night was spinach and pumpkin. He still breastfeeds 8 times a day though so I guess he is not actually eating much “real food” yet…
As for sleep. Well at least I had a couple months of him been a good sleeper. Now I feed him 2 sometimes 3 times overnight (in a 12 hour period) and gone are the days where his first sleep of the night would be 7-9 straight hours. I often have to resettle him 2 other times on top of the 2 or 3 feeds so I look like a bit of a raccoon from so much uninterupted sleep…Sassymoo was kind enough to send up a safe cot bumper that breathes as a lot of resettling him was coming from him rolling over and getting stuck in his cot or bumping into the bars. At least he is usually fairly easy to resettle (and even feed and resettle) and usually only takes 5 minutes or so.
Naps are also not so great- he is back to three short naps a day instead of 2 long ones. So today for example he took 1 1 hour nap and then 1 30 minute nap and 1 40 minute nap. He is a lot genkier if he has 2 90 minute naps or even 1 90 minute nap and 1 2 hour nap but he wakes up and once he is awake he will NOT GO BACK TO SLEEP. It is as if his nap clock gets reset…
Shun`s first father`s day went well- he got a new wallet (badly needed) and a world cup japan key ring (I let Noah help me pick that one out- ie, he grabbed at it when we were looking so that is the one “daddy” got!) and we went out for lunch to Shun`s favourite yakiniku place. Noah “gave” the presents to his daddy but he had a chew first. Of course.
Okay so this is a bit of a random post of random bits of info- it definitely sounds as if has come form someone sleep deprived. I feel like I haven`t even written coherent sentences. I am sure I planned to write other stuff but the thoughts have definitely escaped me and while is only just after 9pm I might call it a night soon…
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Love the vids – hub had a look from across the room and thought it was Ryu!!
Those enemas work really well and if you need to buy more they are well cheep from the drug store. Marina thankfully doesn’t need them anymore and is even going poo on the potty now. Yay. I can’t wait till potty training and night and early morning wakings for the three of them are over. Hope you start getting some more good sleeps.
Father’s Day sounds nice. How cute of Noah to have a wee chew before daddy got his prezzies
Hmmm…..I thought bananas had the opposite effect. Misora absolutely loves them, if she sees a banana she stops whatever she is doing and comes crawling over to it. But we….um…..haven`t had any problems in that…..um….area. Quite the opposite in fact. Not bad or explosive, she generally poops twice a day, I tend to like her morning poops better (especially in cloth diapers) as they are more solid and I can just plop them in the toilet without really need to rinse the diaper off.
As for house hunting, when you are looking I wouldn`t bypass the older houses. That is exactly what we were doing but the house we liked (and we`ve asked the realtor about getting the windows replaced along with the door, haven`t heard back from him yet though) was built so much nicer than some of the newer places we had seen. I would say in your search, look at everything you possible can (especially is 1) its in the area you want 2) its in your price range and 3) just so you can get an idea of how different houses are put together so that in your head you can go “I like this this and this but wouldn`t want this”)
G.W- Didn`t your husband realize the voice was an Aussie not a kiwi?
Ryu and Noah do look a little bit similar though!
Last nights sleep was a little better- he woke up at 10:30 but I resettled him without feeding him and then he slept until 1:45am and then fed again at 5am and back down until 6:45am or so then up for the day. I am just about to feed him and put him down for a morning nap as soon as I reply to these comments (and as son as he gets sick of the jolly jumper!
I still miss the only once a night wake up and feed nights though
Melanie- I thought that about bananas too but apparently in children foods to avoid if babies get consitpated are mashed bananas, pureed apple (but apple juice is okay) and rice cereal….in adults bananas have a lot of fibre so they are good apparently but not in kids.
You are lucky with Misora- Noah poos once every 2 days if all is going well. If he waits longer than that we have issues.
With the houses- I can understand what you are talking about but the earthquake laws changed in 2001 with how they built things so either pre-war or post 2001 are usually safer structures apparently which is why Shun wants something in the last 10 years. It is also a lot harder to get a loan for an older place especially in Tokyo (I am not sure about out here as the land is usually a bit bigger I guess) as they change the housings laws ALL THE TIME. So if you like something and then go ask for a loan they say no because it would be too hard to sell again later because it is 2cm too close to the house next door or the driveway is 30cm too short or blah blah blah. So many rules and we would definitely need a loan as we won`t have enough cash saved for an entire house!!!
In Australia I would have no problems looking at older houses but here I am not so sure.
Aw! What a spunky little monkey Noah is! I can see how he really loves The Wiggles! So cute how he squeeled when Wags the dog came on! He really does look like Ryu! Sorry to hear about the poo dramas! Yeah, I’ve heard bad things about giving kids enemas! When my Mum was in the Nursing Mothers Association she used to tell all the mothers to eat oranges when their babies were constipated because it is absorbed quickly by the body and passes through the breast milk to the baby making them poo soon after. So if it happens again, maybe you could try that? As funny as it sounds!
Katie I have never heard of that before but I am going to try it!!! I don`t like prunes but have been trying to eat one or two a day to help Noah and feeding him some mashed ones every 2nd day with his breakfast (he luckily seems to like them!)
Thanks for the tip!
Would you believe there’s a woman on my Dec. due date club board whose baby didn’t poo for 29 days!?! I guess the doctor in America wasn’t worried, the baby is exclusively breastfed and the doc said something like breastmilk can be processed really efficiently. Anyhow, when you talked about Noah’s constipation I immediately thought of that. I found that nuts, I think I’d be freaking out if my kid didn’t poop for almost a month but the mom was pretty calm about it!