a cold one for the road

Genevieve doesn't like drinking cold milk from the bottle. So we always warm her bottles. However, one time we were in a hurry so we didn't warm the bottle at all. Boy was that a mistake. After much wrestling with her she drank the five cold ounces and proceeded to shiver for the next twenty minutes. We felt terrible and never did that again. However, today I've discovered an interesting law of babies.

The acceptable temperature of the milk is inversely proportional to the decibel level of the crying. Consequently a screaming baby is much more likely to drink a colder bottle than a calm one. This usually manifests itself as us heating a bottle but due to the increasing volume of our daughter we forgo the proper bottle temperature and just hope to plug the noise maker. So far this has not failed.

During our mini-blizzard we tried showing her all the snow outside but she wasn't interested. As far as she is concerned it is probably always doing that. We thought about putting her into her little snow suit and taking her out for a bit, but decided against it. We though wind chill down to -1 was no place for a two month old.