Baby Update and Michael Jackson

For anyone that has had a child recently will know, the health region sends out nurses to your homes a few times for a few weeks after you bring the baby home. We've had about four visits so far. As per normal, Kate lost some weight post birth (I believe she lost about 150 grams). The past few visits from the nurses, she's regained that weight and then some. The nurses like to see the babies gaining 15-30 grams per day - Kate has been gaining about 80! So they are very happy with her weight. Kristal was a bit worried about her as she was having a lot of eye matter in the one eye. The nurse said that she probably has a blocked tear duct (i think) and as a result we're supposed to gently rub her eyelid with a warm damp cloth to help clear things out.

Speaking of cleaning, Kate had a bath on Sunday and for the first time, she didn't wail like hyena during the bath. I think I've determined that she is like me - prefers water a bit warmer. Initially, Kristal filled the tub. As I was putting Kate in, my elbow touched the water as well as Kate's foot and I immediately pulled back and Kate was already looking fussy. I look at Kristal, "This water is WAY too cold". It wasn't even room temperature. Im guessing what happened though was a case of it was warmer under the tap but all the colder water that was already in the tub made its way to the back... where I was putting her in. So I made her do it again and I tested the water temp. Kristal thought it was too warm, i disagreed... and apparently so did Kate. The only time she got fussy was when we were taking her out. I don't blame her though, I hate getting out of a nice hot shower too.

On Wednesday, we took Kate down to Diefenbaker park along with my parents where we had another set of firsts. Baby's first fireworks experience... and baby's first pot experience. In our walk to the point where we sat down, I swear we passed through no less than six different clouds of it. Until that point, I really didn't care if people enjoyed a little reefer. But since we had our two-week old with us, my opinion seemed to change slightly. I still don't care if people do that, but we will have to be mindful of it when we bring Kate with us anywhere. Gah, so many new things dad's think about.

And finally, a comment on MJ's death. Personally, I'm kinda getting sick of all the attention its getting. However, during my browsing of the news, I came across this picture on the internet and I just have no words as to how incredibly dumb the idea is. I'll let you have your own opinion.











For the record, I swiped this image off the net from (http://9.media.tumblr.com/GZbqLZ3AXp9gdz5lp4T63RJpo1_500.jpg). I by no means lay claim to its ownership.