Haven’t posted in a while but I’ve been uploading most of the baby photos on a private blog that is just for family and friends. Now I don’t know why I have a public blog, but I guess it’s still fun to have something for all the world to visit with a fleeting curiosity. Plus I love reading other mommy blogs so maybe someone will like reading mine too, especially if they want to read about a couple with a baby living in a tiny ass but cozy apartment in the city. But I’m not really into giving advice or inclined to give a ton of detail about what I’m doing so… enjoy the photos?
Anyway, it’s been two months since Parker has been born. She is awesome. I’ve been tired and have had some days of severe crankiness but overall — I think it’s been going well. We also survived a cross town move and Phil working a lot. We’re lucky that Parker is a chill baby. Most of the comments about her have been about her hair. I think it makes her seem older than she really is which makes me feel like she needs to do more/I need to do more than what she might be capable of. Like feeling bad if she isn’t being read to or interacting with something constantly while awake, as if she were a 6 month old. If Parker was bald I’d probably be content with her current eat/poop/sleep schedule which she does for the majority of the time.
Parker inside her UPPABaby bassinet wearing robot leggings!!!!
With my mom in Madison Park
Baby socks and Lulu's feet
Okay fine, here are just a few things I’ve learned in the past two months, that I am rattling off from the top of my head:
1. The UPPAbaby stroller has great steering and I like using it in the city, but it is definitely big. It can’t fit through the hallway lobby of our apartment building! So we keep the bassinet inside the apartment (which Parker currently sleeps in) and the stroller frame in the trunk of our car. Yes we’re lucky we have a car at all and lucky that we have alternate side parking right outside our building. Now that I’m a SAHM I can move the car T/F & M/Th 8:30 AM-10 AM and not pay for monthly parking!
2. Babies have toe jam! How, when they don’t even walk anywhere?
3. We moved to the Gramercy/Murray Hill area of the city. There are several parks within our area, the famous Madison Park, another park on 29th and 2nd Ave, and a third on 26th and 2nd Ave. This third park is where there are zero children and instead filled with adults from the nearby methadone clinic. It’s too bad because it’s a huge park but uncomfortable to be in with a kid.
4. We cloth diaper but have no laundry machines in our building. I take everything over to the laundry mat a couple of blocks a way. It’s kind of a pain but mostly because of the steps that lead into our walk-up building and because for some reason I choose to do diaper and baby laundry at the same time. This is dumb and I should really just do more trips to the mat a week with less of a load. I bring Parker with me in the Moby wrap and she sleeps the entire time. Phil has also been able to help which has made doing laundry easy. For adult clothes we do drop-off service.
5. I really hate smokers now and how imposing their noxious fumes are. I also hate that I’ve only realized this as a mother and not when I was a casual smoker in the past. There are so many smokers in the city and I wish baby poop was as toxic to them as their smoke is to Parker. The problem is that we’re forced to breathe the same polluted air when walking through the streets. It really sucks.
6. I’ve gotten really good at typing with one hand.
7. Babies are really tiny! Taking photos that show how tiny they are is really hard!
Didn’t think I’d write so much but I missed being able to type with both hands really fast while the baby slept for a bit.
