Its been
awhile since I’ve posted.
I now understand
the mother excuse “when I get the time to do it”. There really isn’t enough
time in the day, in the week to do everything you need to do. I get thorough my
tasks as much as I can when I can. I literally start something, stop mid way through the task, then next minute start something else. The time frame between these cycles can be anything from a minute to several hours. This process is occurring
for about 3-4 tasks simultaneously. No wonder I hardly sleep, no wonder I can’t
sleep, no wonder I’m exhausted.
Eli has
grown so much in the past few weeks. I look at him and I realise how quickly
time is flying and he’s not that little fragile baby I took home July last
year. He’s eating his home made baby food with such excitement. I’m so pleased
he loves to eat and eat so much of it. I guess it there's some truth to what the midwife at
the prenatal class suggested. Which was to continue to breastfeed and hold back introducing baby food as late as possible will set their tummies ready for solids. Eli is loving all the new foods in his diet.
He’s master
the art of sitting on his own and standing up .. then grabbing onto anything
that he can pull himself up on. I love walking into his room to find him
standing up in his cot, smiling to see you. I also love walking in and finding him playing
quietly in his cot with the limited toys he has in there.
He has a
thing for edges and corners. He grabs corners of blankets and pillows. He’s fascinated
by the corners of his play mat so much so he tries to pull it apart. He’s
getting to that age where you can’t leave lost items too close or else his fast
hands will quickly grab them. And that grip …. Where do babies have such
strength?
It’s great
having our families look after him especially in this critical stage of
development. The only draw back is there are three different techniques of nurturing
going on and this can be annoying when you’re trying to instill a process and routine.
Before I went to work I could put Eli into his cot sleepy and he knew how to
put himself to sleep. Now we’re finding this technique does not work.
Here's a recent pic of the cheeky and growing little man
