Jul. 18th, 2008

One nap?

Jul. 18th, 2008 12:07 pm
judecorp: (baby feet)
Somebody wouldn't take a nap this morning. Someone named Punk. She got up a little later than normal thanks to an ounce of milk that she left in her wee hours of morning bottle - I slipped it to her at 6:30 and she fell back asleep for another 40 minutes or so. Awesome. But she was rubbing her eyes and yawning and clearly tired for her normal naptime of 9ish and I set about to put her to bed. After an hour of trying everything - swaddling, no swaddling, rocking, no rocking, paci, no paci, letting her jabber in the crib until it turned to screaming and "mum mum mum mum" - I got her back up and said, "Okay, let's go play." And she did, she totally held it together until lunch (11:30) and proceeded to get a little crabby when I was cleaning up lunch but nothing too major.

And she just went down for a nap in approximately 8 seconds. I have hopes that she will sleep a long time to make up for the lack of morning nap, but I am not putting any stock in those hopes because I will undoubtedly be shot down in an hour when she is awake and screaming because she has missed me.

Perhaps I should make some lunch while I have this blissful break. I was counting on that morning nap, you know? Fried.

~//~

p.s. Thank you for all of the suggestions for the child care thing. I'm a little leery of moving Punk to a center for last minute child care for a couple of reasons (1. she's a really routine-oriented kid and I wouldn't want to stress her out, and 2. she's not fully vaccinated) although I would consider the substitute-nanny route ([livejournal.com profile] rexlezard especially, seeing as he knows Punk and is a whiz with kids). We'll probably end up just taking the days off because I am Anal Psycho Mom... I already cleared it with my boss who said I could borrow against time off I don't have yet or take it unpaid, whichever I'd prefer. So maybe I will take a couple of days especially since August 12 is Punk's neurologist appt and I was going to be there anyway. Who knows?
judecorp: (g'nap!)
She woke up at 1:16pm.

One hour and five minutes after she fell asleep.

I don't understand it. She napped for - wait for it - four and a half hours at day care yesterday. FOUR AND A HALF HOURS! From 9 - 11:30, then ate lunch, played for a bit, and slept from 1:30 to 3:20.

WTF, people?

Baby

Jul. 18th, 2008 04:12 pm
judecorp: (baby stripes)
I swear to God my kid just said 'baby.' I was looking at Flickr to fill out one of the silly Friday Surveys from the Due Date Community and she cruised on down the couch and said, "bah beh." And she was looking right at the pictures of herself!

She will probably never do it again, but I'm calling 'baby.'

Also, I have this ancient wooden case filled with cassette tapes. (Because you never know when you might still need The Stop The Violence Movement's "Self Destruction" cassette single, you know? Or maybe the first couple of Indigo Girls albums? Or The Muppet Movie soundtrack?) Punk just now discovered how to open it (it's kind of like a roll-top desk) and pull out the tapes. She just held one up in the air and had a very triumphant look a la Braveheart.

FREEDOM!!!!!! (Now put my guts back in.)

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