Metal Mummy

Freyja has been an absolute delight lately, she really has. That sounds as though I’m saying that she wasn’t before. She’s always been a delight. But now, she’s sleeping through the night again, which is awesome. Although I thought that since she is sleeping through the night again, and we are getting proper, unbroken sleeps, then I would feel less knackered. Unfortunately, this hasn’t happened yet. I’m still feeling pretty exhausted, but I’m sure that will improve with time.

She’s loving the extra food we give her. Her favourites being rice pudding, and anything with banana in it. She’s completely mastered how to use a spoon, and opens her mouth wide for the “aeroplane”. She’s trying her hardest to grasp onto the spoon when I’m feeding her, and I have, on occasion, given her the spoon to handle, to see what she does with it. She knows it’s supposed to go in her mouth. She just hasn’t quite figured out how to turn her wrist to put the spoon in the “hangar”.

The only problem I have at the moment, is sometimes, she fights her naps so bad, that sometimes, she doesn’t even manage to nap. She will cry and whinge and throw her weight around. But I’ve gotten into the habit of just leaving her to it. There’s nothing I can do – she’s clean, fed, nice temperature, and isn’t in any pain. What more can I do other than let her cry it out? It does usually only take her a couple of minutes to settle herself, so it’s not too bad. Last afternoon though, it was crap. She just cried and cried. Then quitened down for half hour. Then cried and cried some more. In the end, I just got her up and let her play on the playmat. She didn’t sleep at all yesterday afternoon, which in turn, takes me away from work which I can usually do for a couple of hours when she’s napping. It can be so hard to juggle sometimes – but she will always come first.

She still slept 12 hours last night though, so I can’t really complain!