Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:51:50 -0500 (CDT)
From: DK Sanders-Weatherford <dksander-AT-uark.edu>
Subject: Re: Baby Benjamin


On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Ze Sprout wrote:
> >the panther is BIG!  ok, you asked...  more pictures!
> >http://www.uark.edu/~dksander/benjamin/2mnth1.html
> Jeez Darla,
> what do you feed him. Do yo have steroid breasts ?

he eats anything we feed him actually, vegetables, cereal, milk...  my
breasts, however, refused to cooperate and they did us no good at all.

> But he sure looks happy. [nice pictures]

he's really happy; he laughs all the time.  i hope he gets to keep that
attitude...

> I hope he's quiet sleeper now that he's over three months. Here in
> Belgium, most of the time, the mother gets three months of paid
> holidays after giving birth. And then comes the big difficult moment
> (only for those poor people who have to wirk!) : putting the child
> into daycare. I was lucky with my firstborn because i was working
> partly at home so i could keep him, at least in the mornings, with me.
> But with the second one had to go to daycare as soon as he was almost
> three. This ofcourse has also some good sides: contact with other
> babys f.i.

i've been sleeping through the night for a while actually, but it turns
out that terry (husband) hasn't been!  benji sleeps with us and terry
wakes up and i don't...  he doesn't have a crib yet; his uncle is making
him one and when he had to get the hay in, he didn't have time to finish
the crib.
i took off a little over two months after i had the baby (and a couple
weeks before and did half-time for a month after that), but our maternity
leave is unpaid so i had to take all my vacation and sick days so i could
still have some income.  now i can't get sick again till next month...
luckily, we found this wonderful woman who now spends her whole day doing
nothing but taking care of little benjamin.

> Anyway i do hope everything is all well with you and the baby (and the dad).

thanks!  yes, everything is going great.  benjamin has just discovered his
hands!  he turns them over and over and stares at them like someone
tripping on acid.

darla kay

>
> Greetings
>
> Erik
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