Oh, smiling! That's one of my favorite milestones!!
I've been hanging out for it. You could tell he was heading that way - he was gradually becomeing more alert and focused, and though the smile wasn't there yet he had some great eyebrow action going. Then one day I'm finishing up changing his nappy and out comes this lopsided, beaming smile.
Anyway, after saying all that, we just had a slightly disastrous night feed. The goal: get in, feed him, get out. Minimum of fuss, keep him from fully waking up, get him settled again posthaste. He's normally pretty good at this. This time around, thogh, I stop off to give his nappy a sniff, see if it needs changing. Seems like it might be a bit wet; ok, we'll change the nappy, then in for the feed.
Not wet. He's done a noxious green poo (we changed formula recently - he's both breast and bottle fed - to something with more iron). Ok, I'm not prepared for this. I start wrapping him up again to go get the water and gauze wipes, when Wallybee's mother comes in to see if I need help. Not refusing right now. She gets the gauze and wipes. I set about prepping the little man. And of course, once his nappy's off, he decides that whole wet nappy thing has a lot going for it. He's peeing all over his clothes, and now we're looking at a change of outfit too. He's become agitated with all of this, and is crying hard. He's awake, he's hungry, he's wet and cold, this is not good.
We finally got him cleaned up and changed, and then on to the feed. Ok, he's not crying now, but he is wide awake. I get him fed and burped (I'm pretty good at burping him, if I do say so myself); he's still fussing. I cuddle him, carry him around for a while (I've learned this new hold, lie him face down on my forearm with his head resting at the crook of my arm. He seems to like it). After ten minutes he grunts and farts; that seems to settle him. I rock him for another ten minutes or so; then he's ready. He protests a little when I put him back to bed, but the fire's gone out of it. He's asleep five minutes later.
Oh, that green is probably the additional iron, isn' it?
But green poo aside - he sounds lovely.
Oh, that green is probably the additional iron, isn' it?
Yep. It's kind of cool really. Except it also smells more toxic than his previous poos. Ah well.
But green poo aside - he sounds lovely.
He really is. Such a sweetie.
Billytea, when Owen started giggling at diaper changes, we gathered he enjoyed havind hos penis touched. DH ducked his head into the nursery one day and smiled--saying, "that feeling never goes away, Buddy!"
LA's vegan restaurants are full of egg
QuarryGirl.com sent undercover agents to many of LA's vegan restaurants and ordered take-out food, spiriting it away on ice in sealed bags, then they conducted their own tests for trace amounts of animal products. Turns out that a lot of Thai vegan meat-substitutes are made with egg and other animal products (but seitan and tofu aren't).
The actual article:
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Is your vegan food really vegan? We pull out all the stops to test 17 LA area vegan restaurants for non-vegan ingredients, and to find out why seven of them failed miserably.
From Pure Luck to Green Leaves, Vegan House to Vegan Plate and Rosemead to Taipei we pull back the covers on the seedy world of vegan restaurants, and an international supply chain that pumps eggs and milk into our supposedly vegan food on a daily basis.
LA's vegan restaurants are full of egg
Report: Turkey Sandwiches An Excellent Source Of Turkey Sandwiches
Turkey sandwiches, long suspected of being a rich source of turkey sandwiches, were found to contain a substantial amount of turkey sandwich in every bite, the Food and Drug Administration reported Monday.
Yeah, there was an article a little while ago about meat products found in "vegetarian" meat substitutes in Taiwan, which made a bunch of people start thinking about where the fake meats at restaurants came from. And the answer was frequently China or Taiwan. (I haven't bought processed food that I know is from either of those places for a while, but I have no idea what's going on in restaurant kitchens. I know that certain of the pricier vegan restaurants make all of their stuff in their own kitchen, but the cheaper ones will buy the premade fake meats.)
World's Ugliest Dog competitions
Not only is this dog ugly, but it looks insane as well: eta: pic# 8.
eta: Umm... this ain't right: eta: Pic #21.
Tommy, all the links default to the first picture in the gallery-- Pabst, the winner. Who I actually think is cute. Lewis suggested that with so many of the entrants being Chinese Cresteds, they needed the Mutt category, the Pedigree category, and the Chinese Crested category.
He's right.
Tommy, all the links default to the first picture in the gallery-- Pabst, the winner. Who I actually think is cute. Lewis suggested that with so many of the entrants being Chinese Cresteds, they needed the Mutt category, the Pedigree category, and the Chinese Crested category.
Yeah. Let me just say that the dog in pic 8 (a Chinese Crested) was totally robbed.
