Heavenly weather has been drawing pulling us (shluuurrrrmmpsh) to the park these past several days.
I have seven or eight fewer tantrums a day when we visit the park. Kidoodle has thirteen or fourteen fewer tantrums. We stay at the park for four hours at a time.
Nothing is better than wearing him out and watching him fall asleep as soon as I give him some milk and lay him on the futon. Nothing, although this comes close: we've all made new friends.
I'm joining a local babywearing group!
I'll tell you all about it after I attend their our next meeting in a couple of weeks. I am soooo excited to learn the tricks of comfy wearing and breastfeeding while babywearing (BFWBW) and to test ALL--hahaha!--the different styles of ring slings, structured carriers, wraps, etc. And to make IRL like-minded friends.
Because sometimes I just get tired of being the "crunchy" one. I co-sleep, use cloth diapers, feed my baby in public, make my hub ride his bike to work ;) , plan to home school, often eat locally grown and organic foods, repurpose junk T shirts, etc. etc. etc.
Wait. Lots of my friends do these things. Basically I am just like thirty-seven other people I know IRL. Exactly.
But that still leaves 4,289 others of my friends and acquaintances that I am painfully unlike. I don't need to be like them, too. Except that these figures make me seem like the adventurous, rebellious one. When I pull out a Fuzzibunz, they are surprised how cool it is. When I use my ring sling, they wonder if it is comfortable, a poor substitute for a stroller, or expensive. I love to share the things I like. . . but sometimes so much explaining can feel like defending. (More on this later.) I am not adventurous. I am too old to be rebellious.
I want more IRL friends here who walk my way. I want to be a groupie!
(but still be me)
So I'm so excited to meet these other baby wearing, cloth diaper using mamas. I'm gonna learn so much--cuddly, snuggly, crunchy stuff--from them!
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Now, just to prove that I'm not super crunchy, see how I wear my baby?
Okay. So I did take him out of his seat after his nap. And then I tucked him into my sling and nursed him. Which is hard to snap a picture of. ;)
P.S. I love all my IRL friends, and I love all of my blogging friends, too. Thanks for all the good vibes!
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That sounds great! I wish we had a babywearing group. I'm surprised at how foreign it is to people, in fact just yesterday we walked around the mall and I got so many inquistive looks and comments (positive one). I've seen people wearing babies for years, so it just seems so normal to me.
Yay for long park visits and naps!
Love your new haircut. So cute! And baby wearing terrifies me. Kudos to you, but it does not sound pleasant to me. I want my baby apart from me as much as possible. I enjoy him plenty at arms length.
And your differences are what make you so fantastic and special to me. I wish we lived closer.
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