I worked almost a full week this week. My team was finalizing the next major demo (for the DC trip I didn't attend this time) and my intentions of working only 2 days this week didn't happen. I did take Friday off so Moriarty and I could walk around Greenlake in the bright sunlight. I intended to go on a mom date with a woman I met at a new mom's group, but she had to cancel. So Moriarty and I had a lovely time. The other 4 days he spent with the nanny. Our original plan for childcare was to start full time daycare at a center near Pip's office when Moriarty was around 6-8 weeks old. They ended up having families with children already attending request spots in the infant room pushing our start date back. Our current estimate is July 20 and hopefully we'll have a contract in the next week or so to finalize that. Until then, Moriarty is hanging with the nanny.
He's growing and growing. I know that's normal for babies, but he's not growing very proportionately. He's still wearing newborn diapers despite being in 3, or sometimes 6, month clothes. His butt is really little and his belly is rotund and he's very tall (and if you're into that sort of thing his toes are absurdly long). I think he kinda looks like a strange photoshop experiment...but in a cute way! He's also getting stronger and is starting to bear his weight on his feet. He still curls his toes up when he does this so it's not very stable.
I had my own form of body distortion since having the baby. Babies have cute little tiny round heads. Grown ups don't. So after spending approximately 700 hours staring at my cute tiny little round headed baby I started seeing Pip's head as incredibly long and huge. I thought this must be a fleeting thing, but then once I started work again many of my co-workers had giant long heads. Does this happen to other people?
The second best part of this week was that I got a lot more sleep. We've figured out the routine to get him to sleep more soundly in his bassinet and for longer. We are diligently swaddling and we hacked the vibrator function of the bassinet to go all night and with stronger vibration. Pip made another post to tell you all about it. I have been able to more or less keep up at work!
The first best part of the week was this video. It took a while for me to figure out how to get him to respond, then he did!
Aside: Before he was born I didn't have a strong opinion about people using Mal vs. Moriarty. I knew Pip and I planned to call him Moriarty but otherwise didn't think it mattered. I'm realizing now that he's here that I really like Moriarty as a name (obviously), and I don't want to encourage people to use nicknames. While I'm not going to be a heinous bitch about this, I've realized I'd prefer if people all called him Moriarty.