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| Sunday, August 26, 2012 |
...mundane-ness of life. I know it should never be underestimated but..
The past few weeks have been tough to say the least. Mainly because of lack of sleep. BSK is in some 15month regression, I would like to think, she has been keeping us up in the night. She has learnt to cry to get things done, become stubborn, typical temper tantrums have begun. It is exhausting to say the least.
I am doing this exercise program which is also partly to blame. I am super tired every single day.And I need my sleep! Sometimes I get upset, sometimes I feel sorry for her. Last Monday she had some insane temperature, over 103F. We couldnt find the thermometer of course, I got some sticky bug thermometer, which glowed 103-105F. DH went in the middle of the night to get a thermometer, which as luck would have it did not work right out of the box! So he went a second time to get another working one. By then baby Tylenol did its thing and temperature was down.
But those few hours were the scariest times for me. Seeing her cry and hot and almost like unconscious, was very bad. She did not have a temperature the next day. She was clingy but she was playing, talking normally. Both DH and I stayed at home.
Her nap time is around 11 at the day care. But Sunday we finish mass at 11:15 and then go to farmer's market and hit indian store, before getting home around 12:30 for lunch. Madame was super cranky today, but somehow we managed to keep her up thinking she will sleep in the afternoon when we can also get some rest. But no at 1PM I tried to put her to sleep after lunch and even milk, madame wouldnt sleep. She was super active, playful. Finally at around 5PM when we went to Costco she was out like a light. Note that was the time we could not sleep, because we were at the darn Costco! And yes as you guessed she got up promptly when we returned home.
She is not easily distracted nowadays. She is hell bent on what she wants and remembers it very well. Tougher to calm her. God!
Tonight as I was putting her to sleep, she was in a good mood, playful. Just as she can display her unhappiness quite visibly through tantrums, her happiness also comes through in guffaws and super wide smiles, with her bunny teeth. Those almost, almost make up for the tantrums, one can say. She was blabbering, playing, laughing. I was amazed at how all my frustration vanished when I saw her smiling.
Lately I have been thinking about the kind of person she would turn out to be as I see her becoming more independent. I realized I will love her no matter how she turns out to be. The moms that love their sons even if they were killers?, I can totally relate to them.
Last weekend when BSK was cranky, we thought she was teething, it was just the onset of the viral infection which elevated her temperature. I almost lost it, cried on DH's arms. Really, can we take care of her alone? Can we bring her up as a good person? Are we really capable of it? More importantly, am I capable of it? Because really DH seems to be a pro in my eyes. He says he gets his experience from dealing with me :--P
Thank God BSK has alteast one sensible, level headed parent. Eh?
Saturday was a good day. We went to a newly wed couple's house for lunch. The girl is almost a decade younger to me, but she was so attached to BSK. She would just take her and play with her soothe, while we chatted up, happy to have some time to ourselves. BSK also liked her. But not the husband. He she was very wary off, and would look at him like he was some alien. This guy also likes BSK so much, in fact he is the only person out side of family who saw her when she was barely 2hrs old at the hospital. He tried his best to win her over, but madame is just a snob. We watched Kalakalappu bits and pieces at their place. It was a day well spent.
I would like to have Sundays to ourselves, although Sunday is like a working day, will cooking, cleaning, catching up. :--( Really waiting for BSK to turn 18. 16 years and 9 months to go :--P |
posted by SK @ 10:29 PM  |
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Hope all is back to routine now :)....I usually never try to mess around with R's naps on weekend; it gets worse the older they grow if you try to do so. We are also going through a terrible two phase (now I know first hand what it means ;)) but as they say....this too shall pass :)
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Shachi,
yes hopefully. ;--) Her naps are still erratic, getting a pattern only in the past three weeks or so. Ugh, I am so scared already!! Cannot wait for her to grow up into a responsible adult :--P
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Kalakalappu was amazing! I laughed the whole way through. Sometimes, total timepass like this is required!
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Hope all is back to routine now :)....I usually never try to mess around with R's naps on weekend; it gets worse the older they grow if you try to do so. We are also going through a terrible two phase (now I know first hand what it means ;)) but as they say....this too shall pass :)