Tonight, you and I stay home from the show. It's on at 8.30 each night - well past your bedtime - but most nights you sleep through it, nestled against me in the Ergo. Still, it's nice to have this quiet time with you while the apartment is empty.
Monday, March 11, 2013
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52/365
We are in Adelaide for the Fringe Festival. Your dad is playing in a show that I am musical director for, and we are doing a run of nine nights in a row. Tonight, before our show starts, we go to a wine tasting cabaret show. We thought it would be quite casual and laid-back, but it is in fact a very intimate setting and I'm nervous about you being noisy and disturbing others. You sit happily on my lap, then your dad's and finally the floor, playing quietly, until, 45 minutes in you start to make loud (happy) noises during a quiet moment in the show and I decide it is time for us to go.
50/365
The table in our Adelaide apartment is just the right height for you to pull yourself up with - and so a new skill emerges.
49/365
Our sick little man. You sleep fitfully, needing to be sat up during your many coughing fits. We keep you safe between us.
48/365
Midnight, Adelaide Children's Hospital. We arrived in Adelaide this morning. You're sick and occasionally having trouble breathing, and we are worried. Poor little bubba
47/365
Heading to the airport very early in a strange (dirty) car seat in the back of a maxi taxi, you are unsure.
46/365
You have slept in many places in your little life. Like most babies, movement lulls you to sleep - loving arms, slings, Ergo carriers, the car and occasionally the pram. But when it comes to sleeping on an unmoving surface, you struggle.
When you were tiny and new, we tried to put you to sleep in a bassinette in our room. This didn't work, so we quickly moved to a small co-sleeper, a little miniature bed for you in our bed, between us. This worked well until you grew out of it, so then we began to co-sleep without it.
There are many things I love about co-sleeping: feeling you next to me, being able to soothe and feed you practically in my sleep and having you wrap your little arms around me in the night. It reached a point, though, where the three of us slept better with you in our room but not in our bed. So eventually we set up a porta-cot next to our bed and put you in this.
Turns out porta-cots aren't that comfortable for babies to sleep in every night. And so we have made the decision to move your big cot from your room (which you have never actually slept in) to ours. You are sleeping better now, but still come into bed with us for part of the night.
Sweet dreams.
Sunday, March 10, 2013
45/365
Playing peek-a-boo with Grandma. You're getting very fast at pulling the handkerchief off of your face, and when it does come off it always reveals a wide grin.
43/365
You and Cocoa continue to get along famously. Now that you can scoot along on your belly, you wriggle up to her for a lick. She happily obliges.
40/365
At swimming lessons with Aunty Fi, you sit on the edge then throw yourself forward into her arms.
37/365
One of your dad's go-to moves for getting you to sleep is to pop you in the Ergo and play piano. Inevitably this is how you always end up - asleep with your head tilted right back, from looking up at Daddy.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Monday, February 4, 2013
35/365
Your latest obsession: a mixing bowl and spoon. Forget about all of the wonderful gifts your family gave you for Christmas - for now, this is what it's all about.
Sunday, February 3, 2013
34/365
I guess it was always a given that you'd love music, but I still wonder at the way you settle when one of us sings or plays the piano. In addition to this calming influence, though, you are utterly intrigued by sound. You are so, so like your dad.
Saturday, February 2, 2013
33/365
Right now, we are all very, very tired. For the last two weeks you've been waking through the night every two or three hours, wanting a feed. It is no coincidence that for the last two weeks I've been away working - just for a couple of hours a day, but clearly enough for it to impact upon you.
Now that this lot of work has finished, I can spend more time with you in the day and you will hopefully feel secure enough at night, so that we can all get some rest.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
32/365
You are SO close to being able to crawl. You push yourself up, putting your weight onto your hands, then press your toes into the ground. Finally, you make it into the crawl position with your knees on the ground. You rock and wobble, trying desperately to coordinate your arms and legs enough to propel you forward, then either lurch ahead, face hitting the floor, or collapse with exhaustion on your belly, yelling with frustration.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
31/365
Breastfeeding didn't come easily to you and I. For the first six weeks of your little life, we worked hard at it. It was painful, upsetting and very, very difficult. Then, finally and suddenly, it was easy. I am in wonder of the fact that my body can provide you with such nutrition and comfort. I love the calmness and connection that breastfeeding brings us both. The work at the beginning was utterly worth it in the end.
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