First Time- Lesson one: Don't write in Hindi

This is my first Blog. I don't have much experience writing but its my goal to learn as much as possible in this life. Within the first minute of writing this, I have learned not to type in Hindi. At first I chose that option without even realizing it.

I am on vacation until September, so now I am staying at home with Milo and Schwa. Being home with the baby all day long is exhausting. He is five months old today. It looks like soon he will be crawling. He can get up on his hands and knees and shake his body back and forth but he can't really go anywhere yet. I am still breast feeding him but he has started on some foods. Now, he eats oatmeal cereal, rice cereal, and squash. I made the squash, blended it up and put it in an ice cube tray. It seems crazy to buy the baby food in jars for 50 cents each when you can buy the whole squash for about $3. That is one of the reasons other than the health benefits, that I decided to breast feed. It seems crazy to buy formula when you can make the milk for free. I read that you burn 500 calories a day breast feeding, so that works out to about 50 calories per feeding. I lost my pregnancy weight pretty quickly, I think the breast feeding helped. At first he was eating just about every hour. That was painful, but once he learned to latch on the correct way and my engorgement ended, it wasn't painful anymore. I keep hearing stories about women switching to formula because they had too many visitors and were afraid or shy to feed their babies in front of an audience. I guess I'm lucky that I have two sisters that had babies before me and I saw them breastfeeding in many situations and in front of many people. There were times when I wanted to give up but I didn't just because I could talk to my sister about the trouble I was having and she could tell me how she got through it. We both had the same problem of having too much milk. She taught me to sleep with a receiving blanket folded up in my bra to stop soaking the bed when I sleep.

Milo goes to sleep early now, which gives me some time to work on things. I am trying to teach myself to crochet. I am working on a flower scarf from the book Happy Hooker. So far every flower is wrong, either it has the wrong amount of petals or the wrong amount of stitches so I can't fit in everything. I will attempt another flower tonight, hopefully I can focus enough to follow direction. One of the challenges is I am a knitter and crochet seems completely backwards.