plus i am posting various pics of thomas that i haven't had time to post, so that william has some pics to look at next week when he is missing thomas. here he is letting us know that he is getting hungry.
tomorrow should be a fun day. we signed up on a couple different baby product mailing lists, so we get all kinds of marketing and product promo junk mail. last month, we got a letter from the UC Berkekley child development lab. they are looking for babies in various stages of locomotion for their studies. i told them i was only interested in the one day studies so they called us this week and said that they have a study needing babies who have just started to crawl. so tomorrow we are headed into berkeley at 10:30am to test his motor control and decision making skills. i am sure it will be funny. speaking of funny - here is thomas' super smilie
face. it is his smile that he uses when he knows we want him to smile and he wants to please us and smiles really really big. it is so funny!anyways, after the study (1.5 hrs) we are going to get some lunch in berkeley and head over to Dirt Cheap Mattresses, featured on Eye on The Bay earlier this year. we are finally going to buy our king bed so after shopping around a bit, i found they had the best deal of those deluxe mattresses with foam toppers built in. they actually have the simmons top of the line one right now that has a removable topper that you can machine wash if you have a front-loading washer. after sleeping in full size bed for 8 years and a used queen (from CL) for 2 years, we finally have a new king bed! woo hoo!
i am sure all babies do this - flapp all four limbs up and down when they are excited or happy or very pleased with something they have just accomplished. this pic actually captures that somewhat - just all hands and feet a blur with excitment.even though days are warm, evenings have been nice and cold, so we bundle him up at night for sleep. usually a long sleeve onsie and a full body fleece sleeper. sometimes, i even put little long-john pants on under the fleece sleeper. once it starts getting really cold at night, we are going to set the thermostat so that the house doesn't go under 69 degrees. babies are
such blanket kickers, there is no other way to keep him warm. and i can't imagine putting more clothes on him - he would be like this little hot dog boy with 5 layers of clothes on :)here he is bundled up on one of our early evening walks. funny how he tolerates the hat when he feels the cold air. any time it is warmer and we try to put a hat on him (like a sun hat) he just rips it right off. including sunglasses. the days where he just sits passively wearing whatever i put on him are OVER. O - V - E - R. boo hoo...
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by the way, if anyone is interested, dirt cheap mattresses (in oakland and SF) has the Simmons Exceptionale King with eurotop/superpillow for $1000 (or $1100 if you want the box spring/foundation). i checked sleeptrain, mattress discounters and mancini sleepworld and it retails for about $2400-3000. they also have the beautyrest plush for $800. good deals for mattresses if you like the foam toppers. these also have the removable top that you can wash - simmons calls it their healthsmart feature. plus the removable top provides a layer of breathable fabric/fill between you and the foam so it sleeps cooler too. when you sleep right on foam, it can be a little warm. so if you are a warm sleeper (aka sweaty) you want some sort of buffer that breaths between you and the foam. but foam is awesome! we are test driving the 3" foam topper that william's sister got from costco and we are completely sold on foam (high density viscoelastic, yadda yadda). we can sleep in and not wake up sore. in fact we can roll around as long as we want (or as long as thomas let's us) and our backs don't get sore. if anything, tummies start to get hungry before any other part of our body gets sore from sleeping for too long. it is great! definitely worth it for a great night's sleep.
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What fantastic pics! So much character!
The funny thing about beds is that after a month or so, you'll swear that even a king is too small. And you'll wonder how you ever "subsisted" on a queen size bed. =P Trust me; I know from personal experience!
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