It has been a lot longer than usual between posts for us. With me jet-lagged and digging out from a week away from my office, it hasn't been easy to find time to take pictures of Margaret much less post on the blog.
Working on Saturdays again also takes a bit of the steam out of my sails in terms of having personal time.
The weekend was a whirlwind, actually. Well... for us.
SAM and Margaret actually met me at work on Saturday afternoon and got a tour of the office and met everyone there. After having lunch near the office, we took a long walk by the Tsim Sha Tsui promenade and went home (after ice cream) via the Star Ferry.
Date night was spent, essentially, collapsed at home. Daisy was sick, but luckily, she had left us soup, curry chicken and rice so we still ate well.
Unfortunately, Daisy wasn't the only one not feeling well yesterday. Margaret was very fussy yesterday. We suspect that she might be cutting another tooth as she keeps wanting to stick hard objects in her mouth and bite on them.
There's been a lot of fussing and screaming. Of course, this is compounded by a new effort to try to get Margaret to wake up later in the morning by reducing her naps during the day.
Today turned out to be unexpectedly full.
SAM had Margaret this morning which allowed me to sleep in until the incredibly late (for us) hour of 8:45 AM. Mommy took Margaret to the park for an early morning swing and found it nice and quiet.
After Margaret's nap until 10:00, it was, of course, my turn.
Incredibly, by noon, we'd all had breakfast, read a few books with the little one (Going on a Bear Hunt) and had Margaret down for our nap. Such efficiency has heretofore been unknown to us.
From about 2:00 - 3:00, my Godfamily came for a wonderful visit and brought the most delicious fruit.
Margaret made googly eyes at Uncle Howard that had her Daddy jealous!
Sadly, they had to leave by quarter after 3:00 so we took Margaret out for her second trip to the park and swings.
Unfortunately, Margaret was, again, fussy in the afternoon. I think that, again, the lack of sleep is compounding some other discomfort (perhaps teething). But we'll have to wait and see what it is.
She was so fussy that, while Sarah was getting groceries, and I headed off to change Margaret, complete strangers were trying to give me advice on quieting her down, telling me to either feed her, hold her, pat her, change her or some combination of all of those.
Eventually, holding her and giving her a pacifier did the trick.
Actually, what really did the trick was coming home and feeding her a smorgasboard of pureed foods. Immediately upon arriving home, she quickly devoured a meal that included copious amounts of apple, potato, zucchini, sweet potato and rice cereal.
She was again, as on Saturday, fussy during her bath, but took to her post-bath feeding happily and enthusiastically.
Margaret was awake long enough to welcome Molly and Bill with whom we had a wonderful (take-out) Vietnamese meal that included everything from noodles to spring rolls and everything in between.
SAM is feeding Margaret in bed as I write and I can't wait to wash up and crawl into bed with them. Waking up early tomorrow morning and going to work again, I'm looking forward to less.
'Till next time...
4 comments:
hi you guys, welcome to the agonizing world of teeth. Yo's mom made us a suggestion which has saved us many times: frozen pineapple core. It's less juicy than the rest of the fruit (which you get to eat), but it contains the enzyme that makes your mouth feel funny when you eat pineapple - it's a meat tenderizer. If you put a chunk in her mesh bag, I'd bet she'd love love love it and it might save you some fussy time. hugs all around! E.
Priceless.
Absolutely priceless.
Do I note that the overhead contraption of friends has been disassembled and replaced by a basket o' buddies??!!
What Knotts to know :)
John, you more than make up for momentary vacancies on the blog! What a collection of photos. So many moods and expressions in one young being. What a trip that Margaret can be sitting in her chair and reaching into the basket to pick out what she wants to play with! It's just dizzying how fast she's getting control of her physical world (we already know that she has the people part well in hand!) Hope this week goes better for all of you. XXOO
Adorable!
what great photos!
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