yesterday's blog finished with the words, "it was a really fun afternoon."

the evening was absolutely appalling.

jasper, sela and carys, denied the majority of their 2pm-4pm afternoon nap, did not eat well at 4.30, were asleep by five, oh, except jasper who started up in his crib at 5.30pm.

wahhhh my soother has left me...this is just like the nicu when my parents would leave me every night....wahhhh i am so lonely for my soother......wahhhh the room is dark and i am so scared that no-one will ever come back for me.....oh wahhh

i'll wahhh you, kid.

so my sister got him up and attempted to give him the bottle he had pushed away earlier. jasper wasn't sucking. (well, he was sucking in the best kid sweepstakes, but that's another story). he ate a few mouthfuls of leftover sweet potato, and by 7pm was sleeping again. but that was an hour of whinging, so please don't think he was remarkable. what is remarkable is that i didn't run out of the house crying.

pam was really good, she pushed marie-claire at me and said, "i'll take care of it". and she did. v. impressive when your sister can tell by a look that you are nearing your notnice levels. remember that unwritten and understood book i referred to in pride or pity? the same book details your levels.

the evening feed was crap, too. jasper didn't want any sweet potato, was squirming and yukky, kept slapping the bottle away....carys ate well though took a long time, and sela didn't finish hers which made me wonder if she was going to last through the night (she did).

then we sat down and ate indian takeaway, courtesy of divine richard. i will write a plenty on richard at a later date. but for now i will just say he is a fellow canadian, animal and people lover, savvy, sweet, overly generous, interesting, and funny! and he loves food. richard makes me laugh. last night, i didn't see him per se, but the food cheered me up. nothing says "laugh!" like aloo gobi.

Comments

[Mum aka Mo aka Maureen]

Darling - thank goodness for someone else to step into the breech(sp?) when you just needed to step out for a bit. So glad Pammie could do that for you.

We love you and think you are a great mother.

xox

[Lauren]

Jasper was showin' some 'tude with a capital T. I guess messing with the schedule is a sacrilege. I hope today goes smoothly.