Sleep And Well, Other Stuff Thrown In

I never wrote a follow-up post to Sleep Improvement, though I always meant to. I told you how the gaps were being bridged on Figlia's end, but the truth is that life is improving on my end too.

I have realized that napping as soon as she is sleeping does not work for me at all. I nap when I want to, anytime during her afternoon sleep, but I can't just lie down. I would be too restless and fidgety to pull it off. So I head to bed when I get sufficiently drowsy, and sometimes she wakes up just by my movements, but then we do go back to sleep often, and I take my dutiful rest.

And if she does not go back to nap in the afternoon when I hit the bed, I just make sure that I manage to lie down a bit and attempt to keep her sated for a while. If I can pull it off for 30 minutes, I am a hero.

Figlia continues to throw curveballs at me. But I have become better at handling them. I have become comfortable waking with her often at night. But she goes back to sleep again, and that is what I root on everytime.

Till.

Till she woke up at 6 o'clock, and then cuckooed some for an hour, kicked me constantly (I was lying beside her) and denied milk. Then she cut her afternoon nap by a good two hours, and then cried a ton before she fell asleep for the night.

Those days still fall by.

For the rest of the days, I am ready to wake up. I feel more acclimatized to it now.

And I will also let you onto a secret. I don't have much work to do around here. My mum and the domestic help take care of much of the housework. Currently, I only have to see Figlia's needs met, and I perceive that my life will get more woven only with landing at UsualCity, and the house's responsibility falling on my shoulders.

Hubby has been missing Figlia and me terribly, and the truth is that I can't wait to go back. Well, there's a date finally! End of this month should see us going back to UsualCity, and to a new home.

The house-hunting has turned crazy. Whatever fits our likeability scale is very expensive...we are just trying to tip-toe the budget versus liking-the-house see-saw. And the fact is that budget is currently the bigger criteria...if a decision has to be made, it will be the deciding factor, for now.

One thing that has become a constant with us, is that Figlia hates to be pulled out of her bath. She loves water! She loves to bathe. And we cry everyday when our favourite activity is curtailed. She actually gets very angry, goes red in the face and cries! Sometimes milk soothes her, sometimes it does not. It is very difficult to distract her on this.

And I have begin to realize another thing in her personality...she likes what she likes, and is very assertive about her likes. She does not get distracted from things she loves to do.