new location. woo.
i'm coming to you now from my bedroom, where i have relocated the laptop in an ill-conceived and swiftly-defeated attempt at getting some work done while the kid refuses to go to sleep. it is now 3:07am and she is still awake in her crib, crying away. she's cried so much this past week that she's hoarse - my daughter is now the kathleen turner of babies. faboo.
so the baby is completely weaned now, and the boobs are in almost pre-baby condition. the good thing about my virtually non-existant boobage is that the girls are too small to sag, which is excellent.
total random sidenote - where was i a year ago today? here:
...all pregnant and fabulous. and rotund. and glowing, may i add.
i was thinking about my pregnant belly a few days ago and reminisced about how i used to love sitting back on the couch while watching tv, my feet up, pants rolled down, and my hands on either side of my bellybutton, waiting for a kick or elbow or hiccup. the kid was (and still is) quite a mover and a shaker so i was rarely disappointed. i loved being pregnant, seriously. despite the water retention, fatigue, gas and waddling, i really felt beautiful. i loved the kind smiles i'd get from strangers and when john rubbed and kissed my belly. the random cravings were fun and the fact that i could eat pretty much whatever i wanted in any amount and it wasn't frowned upon; many times it was encouraged.
as i write about all the wonderful memories of rainbows and unicorns running through fields of smiling wildflowers, the baby is screaming at the top of her lungs three feet from me. what a reality check. it's now 3:21am, ps, and she has not stopped crying since i began writing. motherhood........ what can i say.
oh, so i'm going to make a mix cd of calm, gentle songs for the baby. i don't want to do stereotypical lullabyes and classical music: i was thinking along the veins of joni mitchell's "case of you," coldplay's "green eyes," and billy joel's "goodnight my angel." ANY SUGGESTIONS?? feel free to email me songs (after my computer crashed in freshman year, i never regained the colossus that was my playlist of downloads) or just post suggestions. i've decided that my child will have stellar music taste, even if i have to ban Z100 and shit pop music from her innocent ears.
okay... the crying is ridiculous now. say prayers that i figure out some magical way of getting her to sleep on her own.
posted by baby momma @ 2:29 AM
2 Comments:
reg, you are unbe-weave-able. as in you should get a weave, because you'd look great in it. i'm thinking a fuschia weave. what do you say?
the kathleen turner baby thing drove me batty!! how are you so funny?? god, almighty i love you girl.
okay, i want to make you a cd. mother, may i? you can approve of the artists, but the songs will all be surprises, ok? so let me know if you hate any of these artists. i'm pretty sure everything's okay, but give it to me:
joni mitchell
neil young
coldplay
bernadette peters
regina spektor
nellie mckay
jolie holland
earth, wind, and fire
james taylor
beatles
ben harper
lionel ritchie
rasputina
the phenomes
billy joel
debbie does dallas the musical (just kidding)
cyndi lauper
belle and sebastian
ian and sylvia
astrud gilberto
janis ian
barbra streisand
Regina --
OK, so I'm not a baby momma, but I have been doing the nanny/daycare thing forever, so I do have a suggestion... which I am sure you tried, but I will say it anyway, just so I can say I tried to help in someway. If Lily is laying on her tummy, rub her back in quick circles -- not only does it calm, it soothes, and the repetitve motion lulls a kid to sleep. I've put down many a kids with that method. (ps - by "put down" I don't mean killed......)
Happy baby-putting-to-sleep-ing.
katie
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