barrandgirl

Tuesday, September 14

Dinner Time


She never ceases to amaze me with her appetite.  That's Jemmy's dinner on the left - a dozen frozen vegie icecubes for dinner.  That's her 4th meal for the day.  Angus has a more refined and measured appetite with two big spoonfuls of meat and vege after a day of eating not much since breakfast.   He's still a nugget and she's still a lovely lady.

Hard Times

"Hard Times" may seem like a strange title for these photos.  The last coupla weeks have been dark and desperate for me.  Everyone has got their their triggers and mine is a sleepless child....not sleep deprivation but lack of control over their sleep.  Jemmy was once a masterpiece of sleepfullness and over the last 3 months she has declined to low lows.  I felt like I devoted all my thinking space and household routines to her benefit with declining results every day and night.  Sure I can write about it in a socially palatable form here but I can do a really ugly, slow-burn meltdown in the privacy of home. 

So, the good news is that I feel the corner has been turned in a hairpin bend fashion.  Last night I sleep trained her and the results today have been incredible.  One day she struggles to settle with an hour of pacifying and the next day she smiles, grunts once and dozes off. 

The photos above were taken on the weekend when I consciously made a decision to stop resenting the sling sleeping and savour it - for the last time!   A re-frame from the future, occurring now. 

I don't need to write much more but the portrayal of family life on barrandgirl needs a dose of uncut reality every now and then. 

I Can Sit

She is 7 months and sitting up a storm!  We think she's drop dead gorgeous too and may have a career in modelling...read on.

All In A Day's Work

Here are a few snaps of life at our place. Even the mundane can look ok in a photo.



This rocket launcher is ace.  Even the little tackers can get it 10m in the air.

Fingers in ears for the whipper snipper on Sunday arvo.
He's obsessed with the concept of 'get wet'.

Swing doubling as Rusk.

He loves her.


 
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