Time flies …
25 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
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— December 2011 —
Seems I gave birth just … yesterday … and now Becci is starting to crawl… well, almost… she kind of crawls backwards …
— January 2012 —
OMG, not only does Becci aka “speedy Gonzales” crawl perfectly forward, she stands up on her own holding on to furniture, and now she even lets one hand go …
Becci is a full entertainment program .. and this 24/7, non stop action with this little pumpkin!
Either we have gotten old, or she is really a hand full. Our other two kids were nothing compared to her. For once, they were sleeping for hours during the day. Not Becci, oh no, if we are lucky enough for her to fall asleep in the day, it’s for 20 minutes max. She wakes up with a big smile and loaded with energy. We call her “Becci, things to do things to do” – she is always on the move. On the other hand she is such a sunshine in our lives, we adore her to bits. She really was the missing piece in the puzzle, we all can not imagine life without her, how bored we would have been.
Mother nature has a wonderful way to make women immune to sleep deprivation. I feel like I have been trained for the Mossad, they are welcome to hire me know, I can go months without sleep!
Even if Becci does not wake up in the night, after 2-3 hours, I wake up to check on her. I start to move her, poke her a bit to make sure that she is alive … Obviously, than she wakes up, wondering what the hell I am doing when she sleeps … I admit, I kind of miss her when she sleeps. Before I was complaining that I still breastfeed her during the night, now she is almost 9 months, she should sleep through the night without eating … (maybe she would if I would stop touching her when she sleeps …??? That’s a thought …) Now I have introduced her to a wonderful and comfortable way of sleeping (for me…), I just put her on me, she is perfectly close and I can monitor her breathing all the time … result is, I don’t sleep at all … but reassured!
Oh yes…, and I have 2 other children, one is not much of a child anymore. He likes to believe he is a grown man living like “Alice in Wonderland”. He parties all night, comes home in the morning, sleeps all day, wakes up late in the afternoon, just to get ready for another party night… Well, the party is over now. He has to go to the army, even if I was against it until now, I am more than happy to send him off. Bye Bye party! I hope they will teach him a lesson there, first lesson will be to get up in the morning! I wish I could see that! I grin at the very thought!
There is also my 13 yrs old daughter who is a teenager now, with all the wonderful package we parents get when our kids become a teenager. She is moody, watches her diet, dresses up, skin is not as flawless as before, and she talks back! Never thought this can happen with her … but oh waow … she has a mouth big time! Still she is still a pretty disciplined girl, doing her homework and minding her own business (facebook 24/7) … her only enemy is mathematics at school, rest is okayish.
I still have the liberty of working 6,5 hours a day instead of 8,5 until May, a BIG privilege given by my employer, after making us come back to work 16 weeks after giving birth. In Austria mothers can stay up to 3 years with the baby at home…. but not the UN…. although we are in Austria we have our own rules. I am trying to enjoy these last couple of months “honeymoon”, it is so great to come home when there is still light outside!
It’s end of January now, and we had only 1 day of snow… weather has gone nuts, like the rest of the world, I wonder how long mother earth will put up with us polluters…
There are so many things to do and so little time for everything …
I don’t want a longer day, I just want a long life to accomplish all the things I have planned in a good pace.
