Sarah and Adam: The Next Generation

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New pictures from the last few weeks including our trip back east: click here.


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Adam says: This is my first full week of parental leave. I've been working for most of the past three months while Sarah has been home with Jasper. Now we've switched, and I'm home for the next 3 months while Sarah works.

It's obviously a big change for us, but it's been fairly smooth. I already felt pretty comfortable taking care of Jasper but had never done a full day on my own til last week, so that was a big day. And Sarah had never been away from him for the whole day, so it was challenging for her too. We've found an interesting perspective on the end of the day, when Sarah finishes working and wants to relax, while I am ready for a break from Jasper after a long day. It's the same dynamic we've had for a while, only now it's reversed as Sarah's the one working. So it's helped to see it from the other side.

Continue reading about my first week on leave here, and watch the video of chatting with Jasper below. Also don't miss the previous post, which is also new.

The First Trip

Last week we took our first trip with Jasper, back east to Connecticut and DC. We were apprehensive about the plane travel, having previously been frequent travellers who got irritated by screaming babies on planes and now being in the position of having one. We arrived at the airport hours early and had prepared for every contingency.

Continue reading about The First Trip

Watch Jasper meet his cousin Andrew, a big fan of this website:

Adventures and misadventures

This week has been very exciting for all of us.  Jasper has had several visitors, including his grandma from Connecticut (Adam's mom). We all had a lovely visit, and, amazingly, Sarah and Adam went out for dinner one night (without Jasper). It was quite remarkable!

Jasper also got his very first trip to the emergency room when he grabbed (who knew he could grab??) the cup of coffee in front of Sarah at the local coffee shop and spilled hot coffee all over both of them. Sarah, in a mad panic, concerned he was burned, immediately put his little legs under the cold water tap in the bathroom (which, as it turns out, enraged poor Jasper even further).  Unsure of how badly he was burned, 911 was called, several firemen conferred, agreed he was burned, called for an ambulance, the ambulance came and took us all away to the emergency room. By the time we got into the ambulance, Jasper had calmed (perhaps because he was no longer immersed in icy-cold water?), and by the time we arrived at the hospital, his legs weren't really very red any more. An hour later, when the burn specialist finally stopped by, Jasper was asleep, apparently unharmed, and we were all sent home with a diagnosis of "mild skin irritation due to coffee spill." 

Thanks to quick-thinking by Adam's mom, we had Jasper's car seat (and our car) at the hospital. Unfortunately, though, Jasper had no clothes! (His original outfit being soaked in coffee and then water.) We wrapped him in our blanket and then put a hospital blanket over that. When we got home, he continued to sleep in his car seat for some time, but managed to kick most of the blankets out. Check out the picture of the cute little half-naked sleeping guy!

Today when we went by the same local coffee shop for a latte, the latte was only lukewarm at best. Apparently they've started making them VERY tepid thanks to our little incident!

 

Other Jasper developments include the fact that he has begun to master the art of keeping his hand in his mouth. This often requires that he use the second hand to sort of prop up the one that's in his mouth in order to keep everything in place.