Off the cuff

Its been a bit rough. With bad days. Fussing. Crying. Negotiating between the 2 sisters. So little time to myself. Caitlin is gaining her ground. Now that she sits up and wiggles her way to get her toys, she has become a little being that Ellie has to reckon with. A bit less of scratching her sister, no more biting (at least not in the last few weeks). Although both sisters have begun to play together a little, I think Ellie still misses being the only little girl at home. We try to give her one on one time, which is after Caitlin goes to bed at 8:00 or 8:30. That means that Ellie sleeps late and we sleep later.

I never realised how much work kids were. Till now. Thing I took for granted before are now luxuries. Even a trip to the bookshop by myself needs to be orchestrated around feeds, naps, moods and the babysitters timetable. More later.

Hangover Mondays

People are now are saying that Ellie looks like Kee Meng. She started off looking like me but now she is beginning to look like her father. So Kee Meng now has his mini-me. Female baby version.

Monday’s are Ellie’s hangover days. She either sleeps all day to make up for loss of weekend-sleeptime OR ends up not sleeping much at all. Trying to process all that she has seen over the weekend. Too excited to close her eyes for fear of missing out on something good. I tried to put Ellie to sleep by reading the market report from the Straits Times Money Page. These things usually bore me but Ellie ended up enjoying the read. I think I put too much excitement into the Dow Jones index.
Had lunch at Cat’s house today. A gathering of babies and Moms. Eleanor joined the group with her two month old. Can’t believe Ellie was a little needy constant feeder just a few months ago. Time flies. It certainly does.