The picture speaks for itself:
(My driveway isn’t usually filled with trash - it’s stuff I was hauling out for a “bulk” trash pickup.) And here are a couple shots of Kai demonstrating his athletic skills (from his trip to Denver over Labor Day weekend)
When Eidan was born, we didn’t think he looked much like Kai. But his appearance has been changing, and now we think he looks a lot like Kai. Here’s an infant picture of Kai next to a picture of Eidan, so you can judge for yourself (one thing that’s clear is how much bigger Eidan is, at an even younger age).
Kai at ten weeks
Eidan at six weeks
Eidan is a piglet. Here is my evidence:
Eating, quantity: at 4 weeks he was over 10 lbs, so he had increased his body weight by about 60% in one month. He’s six weeks old now, and we haven’t weighed him again, but my guess is he’s 12 lbs. He’s a very robust looking baby. Kai was never particularly large, so we’re wondering if Eidan is going to turn out to be less skinny than the rest of us, or if this is just a phase.
Eating, style: when he sees that bottle coming, he sometimes gets so excited that he grunts and snorts uncontrollably. Unlike Kai when he was an infant, Eidan is a very sloppy eater, with milk dribbling down his face as he tries to force as much milk out of the nipple as quickly as possible (an aside: I came across a great quote the other day: “the only intuitive user interface is the nipple, everything else is learned.”).
Odor: We bathe him almost every day, but there’s no denying Eidan is a stinky baby. It’s not just the diaper or dry milk - it’s BO. Actually, it’s mainly his head - he has stinky hair. Maria’s mother tells us there’s some ancient Chinese proverb about a stinky baby head being a sign of good fortune, but I am dubious.
In the not-pig related aspects of his development, Eidan continues to be a good nighttime sleeper. He’s up every 3 hours to eat, but he always goes right back to sleep. He’s much better than Kai was in this respect (we hardly slept for Kai’s first 2 years). Until a few days ago he was a good napper too, but now it’s much more difficult to get him to sleep in the day - hopefully it’s just a phase.
By this time with Kai, we had some sense of his personality, at least in terms of general temperament. But so far Eidan is still an enigma. He’s actually fairly sour most of the time - he typically has a look of general displeasure on his face. But I did get my first smile over the weekend. We had been trying without success for a while to get a smile out of him. On Sunday Maria’s friend Julia was visiting, and she facetiously suggested we pet him like a cat. I said, “oh, like this”, and I stroked him under his chin, and viola - a big smile! We’re looking forward to more.
You know that flap in the front of men’s underwear? There’s no special name for it – it’s just “that flap in the front of men’s underwear.” Well Kai found that to be unsatisfactory, so he gave it a name: The Peniser. My guess is that he derived it by combining “penis” with “launcher.”
I think he may have a future in marketing.
That was a long and unplanned interruption in my blogging. Between an ongoing lack of sleep, the start of my class, and trying to meet a deadline at work, the blog has suffered. I’ll probably post less frequently until Eidan starts sleeping through the night, which he’ll hopefully start doing when he’s about 3 months old. But I’ll try to avoid going this long without a post again.
Today’s trivia: I should explain my greeting “ahoy!” For years I’ve used it in emails and IM. It was Alexander Graham Bell’s preferred phone greeting, but it lost out to “hello,” which Edison preferred. My feeling is that the electronic medium calls for a different greeting (I don’t have a profound philosophical justification for this - “hello” in the written form just feels too flat as a greeting, especially for IM). Apparently English is the only language where the greeting used in-person and on the phone is the same, so it’s not unusual to have different greetings for different contexts. According to this NPR story, “hello” likely comes from “halloo” (also a nautical greeting) and caught on as an in-person greeting and as a phone greeting around the same time, in the 1880s (the phone was invented in the 1870s).
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