My first few weeks with baby Peter

You wouldn't have known from my blog, but I gave birth on June 28th to a son, Peter. He's a very cute and good natured little baby.

I think I'm enjoying Peter as a newborn more than I enjoyed Kenny. Not from any differences between them -- it's just that with Kenny, I was so exhausted from trying to breastfeed (including pumping, etc), that I wasn't relaxed enough to really enjoy him. That did come after a few months, though.

But with Peter, holding him is like a drug - instant ecstasy! I sit and hold him and watch his little stretches and listen to his little grunts and squeaks, and just adore him. I wonder how he'll turn out...

Toothbrushing success - revisited

A few months ago I blogged about having a new technique for toothbrushing with Kenny, that was very successful. Well, it turns out that over the course of time, it was actually only somewhat successful. Supervising Kenny's toothbrushing was still one of the more stressful parts of my day.

Anyway - I have a new technique, or actually an addition the previous techniques. I pull myself together, try to be less grumpy, and make the toothbrushing into an adventure, by pretending that I can see the "cavity bad guys" in the form of animals. For example, "Look, I see a tiger cavity bad guy! I'm going to brush him away...got him!"

So far, surprisingly successful. We'll see how it works in a week or so.