Silly Emmett

Almost Christmas...and so excited to come to Calgary!! I'm already thinking about what to pack and no matter how I cut it....there is so much baby stuff to bring! Packing for a baby warrants hiring assistants to carry it all...kid could have his own entourage.

The giggles rolled in this past week big time!! Finally I get to hear them everyday..mostly on the change table and definitely when I tickle his feet. Further evidence that those feet are from me cause Tyler isn't ticklish there at all. I'm pretty sure the teething has begun. The drool is on the rise, we can easily soak 2 to 3 bibs in a day now and the fist chewing can go on and on. Who knows how long until that first tooth pops, 1 month? 2 maybe even 3 or four. Depends on the baby so we will see I guess.

I recently watched a documentary on CBC called The Disappearing Male about the use of petro-chemicals in things like baby teethers, toys also in shampoos and diaper ointments and the terrible effects it's having on male babies, toddlers and adults. (If you are interested, you can watch it for your selves here http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2008/disappearingmale/ click on the video box that says View the Entire Film on the right hand side of the page)

Learning about scary stuff like this as well as the seeing on the news the numerous times toys made in China have been pulled from store shelves for lead makes us wary parents. I hope no one can fault us for wanting to keep Emmett as much out of harms way as possible. In light of that, we will be doing our best in the future to buy toys and baby products as natural as possible and definitely not from China. I can tell this is going to cost us. ; p

Emmett has his second round of shots tomorrow... really, really not looking forward to it. Wish me luck.