3 girls

The Baby
Well the past few weeks have been rather hectic on the baby front. For a few days in a row Nina was waking every 40 minutes during the night and I have been unable to discover the cause.  She is now into a 3 hour (sometimes with a 4 or 5 hour thrown in between) schedule at night. As I had gotten used to her sleeping through for almost 2 months, this is rather unfortunate, but after existing in a brief zombie state my body has now adjusted and I am feeling vaguely human again.  Other than that, she continues to be a really wonderful baby and is very content. She is very vocal and spends a lot of time gurgling and talking to herself. I don’t feel she is as alert as Amy was at this age and to me she still feels very much a baby, which suits me fine.  She is a very strong baby and loves to stand and is able to move herself around her cot and even slide out of her carseat when not strapped in. I have realized that she gets over-stimulated very easily and therefore needs enough quiet time and rest in between outings and play time in order to be happy. Since I have figured this out and adapted her routine more, the excessive crying has stopped. She really is adorable and has a smile that just melts my heart.

The Toddler
It is now the school holidays and Toptots only starts in 2 weeks time and Amy seems to miss it. I have been doing lots of painting with her and we have gone on a few good outings such as to the Blue Train (the Mouille point one, just in case you make the mistake of thinking I have a jet setting life, like one of my single, child-less and still funky friend did – lol!); The Tygerberg Zoo with my mom (A great time was had by all and Amy loved the Lions and Pot-Belly pigs) and today we went to POP at Canal Walk. Amy decorated some Marie biscuits, played with playdough and loved going on the slide. Slides are her latest thing. She loved the whole experience so much she threw a little tantrum when we had to leave.  You’ve got to love toddlers.
Amy loves her music and has a thing for Boccelli, watching a music DVD we have of him in Tuscany, over and over again. It is her favourite thing to watch and she gets very excited when she sees him and claps passionately after each song. It is rather funny to watch and very sweet.
I am busy planning her 2nd birthday party at the moment. It will be a Barney party, although I joke she should have an Andrea Bocceli theme! I am rather excited about it, although goodness knows why – perhaps it is just that I love planning things? Let’s hope it is that and not that I am turning into some type of boring human being.

The Mommy
It was my dinner club on Tuesday night and I had chosen a restaurant called Boo Radleys in town, which turned out to be rather nice. For various reasons, this actually was only my 2nd Dinner club this year and so I was really looking forward to it. We had drinks in the bar beforehand and I had a very tasty pasta dish for my main that I have had cravings for ever since. I over-indulged though and felt a tad ill the next day, not to mention guilty as the large amount of milk I had expressed for Nina and hoped would see her through turned out to not be enough and so my child had her share of alcohol flavoured milk from me an hour after I arrived home. Bad mommy. I made a mental note not too make the same mistake ever again, but like paper notes I shall no doubt discard it, sometime in the future. I enjoyed dinner club and seeing my friends so much, I did not want the night to end. I have this thing you see, I used to think it was a Taurean thing, but perhaps it is just a Caroline thing. I am bad with endings. Any kind of ending, but especially when I am having a good time. I was enjoying the conversation so much and suggested we continued it at a coffee shop for another hour, but  got no takers. You see when I am out (especially since it was my first time out in 2 months!!!) and relaxing with friends, having scintillating conversation over tasty cocktails and divine food, why would I want to go home, only to return to the harsh realities of life? Why would any of us?? Yes it is a bit of escapism, but hell I think I have earned it. I live for exciting conversations and stimulating evenings and I just never want them to end. It upsets me that others do. People needing sleep was a reason to all go home. I probably was the most sleep deprived person at the table but did not care. I will sleep when I am dead. I just want to live in the moment and have it never end. Unfortunately I am usually alone in that wish. Anyway we all had an enjoyable evening that I think helped to keep us all sane in some way. Unfortunately most of us don’t see nearly enough of each other these days and women need each other I believe for support, understanding and good laughs.  I miss you my friends, here’s still hoping for that late night coffee…;)

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