Circadian rhythms

Noah slept almost 7 hrs last night. It would have been more restful if I hadn't kept waking up sure he was dead. But man. I don't intend to expect this kind of - amazing event - each night but it is great. My body hardly knows what to do with itself, except demand more. That's not skillful parenting; it's just luck.

I had to sort through Noah's things too because he'd outgrown his three tiniest onesies and is on the verge of outgrowing a bunch of others. Also, I no longer really knew what was around in what size. People have been so generous with Emily and Noah that I can go shopping in his closet and dresser and pull out things in almost every size to about 1 years old. I found some really cute things he's about to grow into. Also as it's starting to get cooler some warmer things, although really I don't know that we won't just keep the thermostat reasonably high for one year. Gas is hugely expensive this year, of course, but this is the one year to do it.

Yesterday and this morning he played and played, where "play" is defined as looking, kicking, stretching, smiling, and sometimes rolling onto one's side. I think I need to set up the play pen, with different hanging toys in each corner, so I can kind of rotate him around. A kick gym is probably in our future too, especially if I can find one second hand or on eBay-local (shipping makes it so not worth it.)

He also is smiling more and more and gave Carl a huge cheek stretcher this morning that I personally think was totally recognition.

For me - well, it's Saturday and I had a nice lazy morning, but there is a bit of a cognitive thing where I wish a little bit for a bit more free time because, you know, Saturday should be a break. Carl's working again, but at the kitchen table, so he could at least watch him while I did some laundry and cleaning. More needs to be done but I decided to sit down with a tea for a bit. The house is actually not doing too badly, although the backyard is a bit of a disaster. FlyLady strikes again because it's true: you can do things in 5 or 15 minute bits, and keep the main areas afloat.

What I really need - and I say this mildly because actually, I'm really happy and thinking of writing a post on happiness in my other journal and possibly copying it over here - is some way to have family fun other than baby watching. We need to work out new fun since old fun was going out to things that aren't necessarily that easy now. And so far it's been hard to do that. So that's my secondary goal, after the 'socialize more' - have more fun.

Gosh. :-)

On the social front we had lots of good intentions this week and little actual face to face socializing. I did spend more time on the phone and I also invited people over for dinner, but no one could come yet. I need to invite more in advance! And not this Monday because it's Canadian Thanksgiving but next Monday I'm joining a mum-baby-toddler group.

So things continue apace!

Shandra