Prunes, overboard

So, after several days of mixing in dates and prunes into G's diet with only slight improvement, I decided to step things up and get serious about this constipation thing. Thursday (sorry, it happened to fall on Thanksgiving) I did an all-prune diet for G. 3 meals. Ok, there was a tiny bit of pear mixed in, but pretty much just prunes. Not even dates added. Just before dinner, after 2 prune feedings, G had a large poop, still mostly firm, but quite large, we'll call it a big lump, rather than the little rocks she had been passing for several days. We were both quite excited and happy about it. After her dinner, her 3rd prune feeding, all the cousins were sitting around hanging out, and I happened to check G's diaper... more "stuff", this time very smooshy, regular looking, yay! G's constipation bout was finally over!

We got home too late to give her a bath, so G just nursed and went to bed (a little more poop). We talked about how happy we were that G was "regular" again. The next morning, after she woke up from her early morning nursing, G pooped again, let's call it an explosion. After cleaning her up, we decided to do a baking soda soak again (we had been doing this earlier for her back end issues) just to clean things up. We decided that we would not give her any more prunes. We checked her diaper just before putting her down for her nap, to find more poop. 

After she woke up, we fed her lunch, which she hated, fussing the whole time. After both of us attempting to feed her, we finally gave up and went outside to look around our neighborhood (actually we were checking out the leaves that we had raked, we took turns whoever wasn't feeding G was raking leaves outside). While outside, I noticed something on her pants that suspiciously didn't look like her lunch... yuck, more leaky poop. This was the 6th consecutive diaper change with poop. Maybe the prunes worked too well.

Her dinner time diaper change was the first one the whole day that didn't have poop in it. 

But this morning there was plenty again. And again after her morning nap. Sigh. Will it ever end?

Here's our Thanksgiving spread. G only had prunes, but the rest of us had a feast!

Thanksgiving family portrait:

It's so difficult these days to get a good picture of G, as she's always moving and on the go. The second I sat her down, she was trying to crawl away. It was a race to sit her down and move out of the way fast enough for E to take a picture before she crawled or rolled away. We had to repeat this several times, this was the best we could do.

New Stroller & Weekend Fun

We finally got our stroller last week! It's been a roller coaster ride. (The recap: bought our stroller back when G was a few weeks old, had issues w/ one of the wheels, returned it for another one, then found out that the company was updated several features and so we decided to return the second one to wait for the upgraded one, which was delayed several times and just finally became available). Here she is for her first fitting.
What's the first thing we did with her once it was assembled (I'm a pro at assembling them now, it was the third one!)? We took her for a walk around the neighborhood and to dinner (one mile there and one mile back). She loved it, and even took a nap during dinner. The sun/bug cover should be coming soon, already ordered. We like this stroller because of its versatility, it is the only one on the market that converts from a single stroller to a double, and it fully reclines for newborns too (not that G needs that feature anymore, but we had originally intended to get it when G was first born - she can still use the recline for naps). It is also rugged enough we can use it for light jogging and hiking. The second seat is currently being used by G at home as a bouncer. We are hoping this is the only stroller we will ever have to buy.
This past weekend was the SJ Jazz Festival. We've gone in the past for fun outdoor lindyhop, and had hoped to go again this year but none of our dancing friends were free. We did end up going with some of our church friends, because of the kids, we ended up just hanging out by a restaurant (in the shade with bottomless drinks and a courtyard for the kids to run around) listening to jazz by a Christian jazz band (the drummer of the band was our friend's drum teacher). E & G took a little trip to one of the official stages to listen to some blues, but we didn't all make it down there.

Sunday we went over to visit G's Tai Po and Tai Gong to celebrate Tai Gong's birthday. It was interesting because it was the first time that it was mostly the grandkids (and one great-grandkid) because one uncle/aunt is in Sacramento and the other uncle/aunt is in Taiwan with the two younger kids. I think that because G looks so small, Tai Po thinks she's more frail than she actually is because she didn't want us to let her stand or jump (which is what G loves doing all the time).