I
finally had what I envision as “the perfect working mommy night” and wanted to
document it because it may never happen again.
The irony, of course, is that I had today off work, but Guinevere still
went to daycare, so it counts as a “working mommy” night to me even though I
didn’t go to work.
I
picked G up from daycare at the normal time.
She was super smiley and adorable when I got there, which made me really
happy because the last couple time I’ve picked her up, she’s been a
cranky-pants. I’m guessing she had a lot
of fun at daycare today. Aaron and I
were both super sick over the weekend (either food poisoning or stomach bug,
not sure which), so I’m sure we were pretty boring to be around for the past
two days, and daycare was much more fun in comparison. I didn’t really start feeling back to myself
until about noon today, so I’m actually really glad that I had today off work
and G had daycare!
When
we got home, Guinevere and I played in her room. I sat her down on the floor with her big stuffed
dog, Eric, behind her (just in case she fell backwards) and just let her play
and explore. She’s sitting so well
now! I was even able to leave the room
to briefly get dinner started and when I got back, she was still happily
playing with her toys. I think she’s
getting close to army-style crawling. I
put her on her tummy and put her toys in front of her and she started swaying
and attempting to move her legs. She
just hasn’t quite got the coordination down yet. Then she gets frustrated and starts doing the
“Superman” (both arms and legs up in the air).
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Sitting in her room. |
After
playtime, we ate dinner together. I gave
up on the whole puree thing for tonight.
She seems to like feeding herself much better than me spoon-feeding her. So I gave her some puffs to eat while I
finished making dinner. Then I gave her some
food off my plate: broccoli, zucchini, cauliflower, chicken, and a piece of
biscuit. She seemed to love it all –
though, she loved the broccoli and zucchini the most.
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Chompin' on broccoli. |
Then
I gave G bath. She laughed and giggled
the whole time. It’s the first time
since she was a newborn that she seems to really have enjoyed the bath. I was singing to her, and she started
“singing” back. Of course, it helped
that I was really just humming “da da da, lalala” – so it wasn’t hard for her
to repeat it.
After
bath time, I gave her her final feeding of the night. She drifted off into that beautiful “milk
drunk” dream state . . . for about five minutes. Then I put her in her sleepsack and read to
her. I attempted to read a book about
puppies in Spanish, and then followed it up with “Goodnight Moon.” Then I sang her a couple songs and put her to
bed.
Normally that part is the worst part – this is
when I leave her in her room and set the timer for 10 minutes and wait for her
to wail herself to sleep (which seems to usually take 8 ½ minutes lately). But
tonight, I heard one cry as I left her room, but by the time I got to the
monitor to turn it on, she was asleep! I
was able to clean up from dinner and type this blog and will still be able to
go to bed at a decent hour! And that is
what I consider a perfect night. :)
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