I’m just kidding, I don’t go to the prison, nor have I ever been through a metal detector, believe it or not. I did, however, get my staples out on Wednesday. It pinched a little bit, but that was it and now I’m metal-less. Matt got me re-bandaged with the giant corset that I was given to hold my guts in last night (since he leaves before 5 am I just shower at night so he can do the bandage) a little tighter and it seemed to help a lot. I did laundry, made dinner and picked up stuff off of the floor without using my toes. It was still tough to get down, but I managed it and the place was semi-clean when he got home.
He’s gotten home late as of late because he’s been working overtime, that and trying to catch up for being late with my doctor’s appointments (don’t even get me started). It means some pretty long days for me and some really short nights for him to have time with Keeley, which is kind of sad, but by then she’s not in the mood to do much other than fuss or slap the glasses off of his face after the first half hour or so. She wants to eat, bath, nurse and bed, or eat, nurse, play and bed depending on if she had a bath the night before. She has, though, progressed to falling down on her butt from a standing position instead of falling all the way down and thumping her head. This happened, oh today I think, which is good. Her butt is very padded, see. Also that is the next step for walking. As such, I scheduled her 12 month check up and immunizations. I will probably skip the H1N1 (oink oink) shot for her. It hasn’t been tested very much and even though she’s young, she’s not in day care and very rarely makes contact with other kids or people who may not cover their mouth/wash hands, etc. The worst thing would be the grocery cart, which I can wipe off before putting her in. After her birthday, though, we can put her in her new car seat, which will be nice. She’s definitely almost there in height AND weight of outgrowing the old seat, but the new seat mandates her to be 1 year exactly before putting her in it for safety’s sake, even though she meets every other requirement (it can’t be rear-facing, which we didn’t realize when we bought it). It did have VERY high reviews from the Consumer Reports people, though, so we’re happy about that. Lots of changes going on around here.
We’re practicing for potty training already. Ha! This is a 10 month picture, but as I wanted to post and our 11 month pictures won’t be taken until this PM, this is the one you get! After several weeks of struggling with keeping Keeley on the changing table, I moved her over to the guest bed for diaper changes. Almost immediately the issues went away. Once we supplied a book, toy, or asked her to help by pulling out a wipe (yucky, don’t eat it!), it helped a lot. We had tried giving her toys on the changing table, but I guess she was trying to say she’d outgrown it! Occasionally she still turns around on me, but for the most part, at least she’s on something soft, and here we go with a fine example of what the beginning of a diaper change might look like. Although by the end, she’s usually dropped the book, after having chewed on it. The changing table now holds diapers, toys, and we may move books over soon as well. At least a few of them. For the next couple of weeks I won’t be doing much bending, so she’ll have some limitations on toy and book usage while it’s just the 2 of us at home, otherwise it will be a hazard.
