Life is speeding up again. If you look at the time stamp on this post, you can probably tell that. I’m up and it’s close to midnight. Laura will be awake between 5-6am. I’m too jazzed to sleep. I’ve been working remotely at night and the issues spin around in my head. Work is chaotic and home is chaotic. At work, I found out that my position was going to be made a full time position. I decided to pass on that option. For a brief time, that meant I was without a job. Luckily, there was an opening and I’ll be working with Multiple Sclerosis patients in the same department and hospital on a part-time basis. I was reading my email and realizing I have to move my office THIS WEEK! I thought I had another week in order to do all that. Oh well.
Mom arrives this week. I’m going to Boston to go to my Academy meeting. I’m also visiting Aaliya, my college friend in New York for a day. Mom will be helping Wayne with the girls while I’m gone for 6 days. I’m worried Laura will stop nursing. I will bring my pump and try to keep my milk supply going, but we’ll see. If so, she’s 10 months old and it’s a natural time for her to wean.
Sara is sleeping for the first time without sucking a pacifier (her “ba-ba”). Every week, she visits our local toy store to “check on the animals” during our swim trips. She got excited by a stuffed animal horse. She knows that we’ve bought her toys for potty training goals. I offered to buy her a toy in exchange for giving up her pacifier. Excited by this idea, she offered to give up her ba-ba. She picked out a beautiful Gund horse she named “Rainbow”. It’s been a few days now. She gets sad a night before she goes to bed without her pacifier, but is doing ok. I put her pacifier away in a special place for a keepsake.
Laura has been going through stair training this week. We have gates in front of all our stairs. I decided it was time Laura got some practice handling stairs while I was spotting her. So I opened the gate. She got the hang of up quickly. Down is a little harder. My mantra is “feet first, belly down”. Sara sings it with me. Essentially, I help her slide down the stairs. Laura laughs and then tries to go up the stairs. She gets very excited when I open the gate now and crawls quickly to the gate when I call her. Today she even oriented herself so her feet went down first as she went down the stairs. See, training works.