Well, its a new year. Strange to think of it but at the same time it’s a familiar feeling. We went around the sun for a whole 365 days and here we are, going on another round I guess. When I told E this, he said, no the Earth doesn’t move. It stopped. He thinks its funny when I protest too much about how we can’t have the Earth stopped moving because it will just not be nice for us. This tiny kid and his never-ending life goal to say the opposite of what we will say :)
Tiny flowers. Also having a slight obsession with Baggu :)
It's almost the end of January. sometimes when I am outside I get sad when I look at people and realised we are all wearing masks and the reminder of how we are still in a pandemic. I still have not finished the book that I started in the beginning of January. I remember saying this book is good to gift to E when he is on the brink of teenage hood. I bought an Apple Pencil for myself. I have attempted a few drawings with it. It’s quite easy to get used to. Sleep has been a bit harder or it just feels like it. As E grows, he’s more aware or he develops feelings over things so maybe that’s why sleep has been a bit hard. But truthfully, I sometimes miss him needing me at night. He’s never the baby to want to cuddle to sleep. He’s never the baby to fall asleep with me close. Ever since we moved E to his own room(at 11 months) if he wakes up in the night, we’ll come in his room to support him back to sleep but sometimes that takes hours so we’ll end up sleeping next to him on the futon mattress. He has been good at sleeping through the night so occasionally when he wakes and doesn’t settle on his own, I’ll go to his room and he will say, sleep together and we will do so, while holding hands(this is what I miss from time to time, and sometimes wish for(this is after a long spell of good sleep)) . I still have not moisturised. I did buy a new body wash which I am excited about. I have yet to get a haircut. I think this is the longest my hair has been in a long time.
Oh yes the birthdays. E’s birthday was nice but definitely tiring for both him and us. Overstimulating. Partly because the year started with E skipping naps. We’re not sure if he is ready for that because he definitely runs on big deep emotions when he doesn’t nap, especially after a few days of no naps. I think we are going to do with a couple or three days of no nap then try to have him nap. Like today, he actually did nap(mostly because he woke up in the middle of the night and only fell back asleep hours later), we settled him in bed for quiet time and reminded him to listen to his body and rest if he needs to. and he did. I think he woke at night because of over tiredness. Some imbalance. he just need a reset after a few days. You can kind of see it build up, with his emotions. Like we know he is running on empty when he mostly cries at every single thing. So we are navigating that. Some no nap days here and there. And also always need a reset. Just like us.
We do have a big pending thing going on. We are moving! We have been talking about it for a while and we finally did go look at houses at the end of 2021 and we found a house that we think is cute and cosy? Just need to wait a bit before we can actually get started with renovations and all that. I think because of that we are also still thinking over the school locations for E. We definitely don’t want to interrupt our rhythm so much. Speaking of schools, we did try out independent forest school, like a trial(just for a day) and E actually went for it without much protest. We talked to him a lot about it and he was ok with being in school with just the teachers and other kids but alas the teachers said he’s not ready to do independent class yet. maybe we’ll try again in a few months to see how he’ll fare. I guess part of it is that he is familiar with the concept of forest school but he has never done things fully independently yet so it’s something he needs to be ready for.
So yes, we have a few things plan for this new year. School and new house. Can’t wait to go through it because now it’s all just waiting.
till next time, m