Weekend post
Saturday, we let Corwin ride in the shopping cart at the grocery store for the first time. We have one of those "floppy seat" seat covers that someone gave us as a shower gift, so we took that along to try out. I somehow had the impression that you were supposed to be able to use the floppy seat with one hand, but I had trouble getting it opened up even with two hands (though installation wasn't too bad once I figured out how it went). Turns out he's probably not quite ready for riding in the shopping cart; he was okay for a while, but kept listing sideways, and we'd have to re-prop him upright. Andrew ended up carrying him for the latter half of the trip. Also -- it's amazingly hard to watch where you're steering your shopping cart when your son is sitting right in front of you being cute and distracting (and you're paranoid that he might flop over). Another reason we'll probably wait a few weeks before trying again.
Saturday evening we got brave and decided to try taking Corwin out to eat at Jason's Deli, since there's a new one that has opened up very near our house. We tried having him sit in their high chair, and that actually went pretty well. He sat in it happily (without listing) for about half the meal before he got fussy. Andrew held him in his lap for the rest of the meal, and he stopped fussing as soon as he was picked up. We suspect he was fussing due to being cold, as I was chilly in the restaurant, and Corwin was dressed in a short-sleeved onesie. Next time, we'll dress him a bit more warmly.
We tried feeding him rice cereal again this weekend; he got some at noon each day -- Saturday, Sunday, and today. It's definitely going better, but I'm still not sure that very much is making its way to his tummy. It's not all immediately coming back out, and he's not gagging...more like he is sitting there going, "What the heck is this stuff in my mouth and what am I supposed to do with it?" I'm thinking maybe I'll try introducing oatmeal this week and see what his reaction to that is. He doesn't seem to dislike the rice -- just doesn't seem to know what he's supposed to do with it.
Sunday (yesterday) wasn't terribly exciting. Nothing really to report. We hung around the house, and cleaned up a little.
This afternoon we had the usual gang (minus staticeel and plus kaerukami's wife Jamie) over for board games and pizza. Corwin actually took a half-hour nap around 4:30, which I found impressive. We put him in bed around 1:30 also, and he stayed there for about an hour, but it was storming at the time and I'm not sure he really slept -- there were stretches when he was quiet, but he was also making noise and fussing periodically, so no way to tell if he was asleep or just laying quietly during those times. It was nice to see folks, and I had fun with the games. :)
I don't know what it is with our pizza delivery places around here, though. We have pretty much quit ordering from Sarpino's, in spite of their pizza being excellent, because there is always some problem with our order -- either they can't find our house in spite of having the directions in their computer, they screw up the credit card payment (once they denied all my cards when the problem was really that their card machine wasn't working, and once they doubled the tip), or they deliver us a pizza with green peppers on it instead of beef (and this happened more than once!). Pizza Hut is the fall-back option, and we had gotten decent service from them up until recently. A few weeks back when my cousins + gf were visiting we ordered from them and it took them over an hour to deliver. Tonight, it took them an hour to deliver (when we'd been quoted a 35 minute delivery time) and got two of the four pizzas we ordered wrong. Basically, we got two each of two of the pizzas we ordered, and none of the other two. It's very frustrating.
Tomorrow I need to call the university and figure out when I need to go in to get my keys, pay for parking, and do any other administrivia that's required for starting work in theory this coming weekend. This was probably my last free weekend for a while. My current plan is to stick it out through this semester and see how it goes; if Andrew and I hate it, I'll consider resigning again at that point; if it turns out to be not a big deal, then I'll probably keep at it indefinitely.
I'm off to take a shower now. Might hop on WoW after that.
I'm sad that we missed DragonCon this weekend. :(