Monday, June 15, 2009

Caffeine good...

We went to the doctor today and all is good. Maddie loves her doctor but puts up a huge fuss because she hates being nekid. She is such a little lady, it's just too undignified for her. Maddie has lost a bit of weight since she was born (pretty normal) so now she gets to chow down on more formula each day while I get to try to figure out how to mix weird amounts of formula when the package only tells you how to do even amounts. Why do they expect new parents to do math? Really? Fractions?

After our doctor's appointment, we went over to my Mom's house for Maddie's first visit to Grandma's. Grandma had very kindly offered to babysit for a bit so Rob and I could have a little bit of time to go out and do whatever we wanted. We went out to lunch and then stopped by the grocery store. I got an iced latte for the first time in 9 months! God, I forgot how good caffeine is! We came home not long after because Rob is exhausted from his nightshift duties last night and wanted to nap. I've been a whirlwind of activity getting a ton of stuff done ever since I got home. Caffeine is awesome, what can I say.

Here's a picture to tide you over. We'll call this Maddie's face of the day:

4 comments:

Net Ghost said...

You don't have to do math for the formula. Just mix enough formula for a few bottles all at once. We bought a "formula pitcher" from BRU, which makes it easy to mix large amounts of formula at a time (and has a mechanism that is supposed to cut back on gas). For example, we usually mix 16 oz of formula at a time, even though we only feed Annie 3.5 oz at a time. Mixed formula will keep for 24 hours.

A Fuss said...

OMG, that is awesome. I am going to have to get one of those. I figured I would make 4 oz bottles and then just pour all the left over into an extra bottle, etc... The doc recommended she go up to 3-3.5 oz.

Net Ghost said...

Yeah, the pitcher was one of the more useful things we got from BRU. However, you can also use one of those glass Pyrex measuring cups or even an 8 oz bottle that you're not using yet. The cool thing about having formula left over in the pitcher is if the baby seems extra hungry, you don't have to keep mixing formula. You just take out the pitcher and pour her another ounce.

Net Ghost said...

As much as I hate advertising for BRU, here is the pitcher we use:
http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3247691