Month: March 2005

The boy thing

If you are one of those people who think that at such an early age as 6-7 days boys and girls are the same to take care of, let me tell you that you are wrong. Even at this early age, boys have their boy thing. The boy thing is directing the penis to pee at all sorts of things.

As any movement, penis coordination is at its early stages when boys are few days old. But they sure do try it. Yesterday, Maxim targeted the wall near the changing table. Success. Today he went even further and managed to pee all over his head. Now that’s a tricky one. :)

I think we’ll have to get a daughter now to see what a girl thing is…

Watches

For the last few days I was in need of a convenient stopclock. Keeping track of baby activities relies on minute counting. Today I was passing by a small Casio stand in the Chris Cash & Carry supermarket and noticed a bunch of cheap watches. I’ve quickly purchased one of the medium-priced (27 CYP) models. It can do time, date, alarm clock and stopclock. That’s all I need…

Picture of the day

What are YOU looking at?

I am a bit under time pressure these days, but I think you’ll forgive me if I will put a bunch of pictures from the recent days into a single submission for the ‘Picture of the day’ project. As you might have guessed, most of these pictures have to deal with Olga and Maxim. Some of these were taken few days ago in the clinic. Others – were taken today in my home. Enjoy!

Album location: /photos/2005/2005-03-03_POTD

Baby charts

During the last few days my mother, Olga, and I were trying to figure out Maxim’s trends of sleep. He is not sleeping for 3 hours at a time every time, but he does have his own schedule. It’s just a little bit trickier.

One of the books on parenting that we have, advises parents to use baby charts. Baby chart is basically a time table with marks for everything a baby does. There aren’t that many things a baby can do – sleep, eat, bath, pee and crap. For every day of baby’s life, parents should just mark all appropriate activities on the time table.

We started the baby chart today. It should help us plan and schedule things in the future.

The problem with baby chart is media. The ideal way, of course, is to use a computer. But marking on the computer is not as easy as it may sound. Computer is not always around, not always started, or has the program closed. Paper and pen are better solution, since they are very mobile, small and quiet. On the other hand, paper has organizational problems. It is practically impossible to resize the cell, change the icon, or correct things without messing everything up.

For now we will keep our baby chart on paper. After a few days I will see how it works out and will write (or find on the web) a software solution. I suspect that it will be also a huge deal of fun to see changes in these charts in the long term. By long I mean periods of time that don’t fit on a single piece of paper.