I've been back at work for 11 week days. Matilda has taken to greeting me upon my return home by putting her hands on my face, opening her mouth and dragging herself towards me to suck on my nose. The first time she did it, the nose sucking, Niclas tried to get her to suck on his nose as well. She wasn't having it.
The nose sucking has quickly branched out into shoulder and arm sucking (she doesn't discriminate with that) and this morning, she gave me raspberries on my shoulder. Then I had to brush my teeth and run to catch a train.
Still bitter about having to leave her during the week. Not only is it cutting into my time with her, it's cutting into my time to write about her. Some things I haven't had time to write about:
Last weekend, she took two road trips for a total of 8 hours in the car. She slept through 7 of those hours. She met relatives there and over there and then met more here during the week.
She discovered her bottom lip and has taken to sucking it in. She babbles now and also SCREAMS just because she is capable of it and not because anything is wrong. For four days this week, she had a three person babysitting triangle. They fed her and put her in the kiddie pool. They rubbed her ear lobe to get her to nap. They danced like back-up singers while she bounced in her doorway jumper and generally loved her all up.
We've kept her up past her bedtime multiple nights in a row this week. If we manage to get her into bed at a reasonable hour, she tends to sleep through the night. (7 to 7!) When we've kept her up past the eye-rubbing and fussing, she has slept badly and woke often.
This past week, she's been naked in a normal-sized pool and sat on a floatation device. She sucked on frozen wash cloths and had cantelope and then watermelon through a mesh food bag. She tasted ice cream and drank out of a cup. She outgrew her newborn-sized onsies -- too long! Last night she ate dinner outside so as to watch the 9 (nine) kids in attendance for the evening. Then she went to bed in pajamas for the first time and I turned on her baby monitor as I wasn't sure I'd hear her over the 9 kids, 9 adults and Lara Croft Cradle of Life.
I could put my ear to the baby monitor and hear nothing from her but the entire conversation at the kitchen table and Lara Croft Cradle of Life. She slept soundly till 7 this morning.
This weekend she's back to just the two of us and boy is she going to be bored.
