16 February 2023
I cannot believe this is actually happening. I am sat down at a café with a mocha at 9:20am in the morning. I haven’t had a coffee since I was pregnant and I have no Arthur with me. I have just dropped you off at nursery for the 2nd settling session which is 2-hour long today. Well slightly less than 2 hours given we were late arriving at nursey due to a last min poo poo incident (let’s be clear this is Arthur’s not me!).
I am coping much better than yesterday. Even though it was only for an hour, I ended up crying silly tears after dropping you off for the first time. It wasn’t that I was worried about parting with you for the hour, it was what this hour represents that got to me – The fact that it is the beginning of a new era which signifies my maternity leave drawing to a close. When am I going to get a chuck of time to spend with you like I did again?
Anyhow, it was a good thing that no one was on the street to see me in tear :p You, on the other hand was fine! You didn’t even flinch when I waved bye🙄 We sort of knew this would be the case because you are a friendly, independent little man who is happy to be carried by everyone and play with everyone. You are also pretty happy to play by yourself. This is actually a great thing and makes it easier for me to let you go.
When I picked you up yesterday, your key person Roz said you were mostly fine. Another baby has a high pitch cry that set you off a few times but otherwise you were fine, just a bit moany and didn’t look impressed. You didn’t want your milk very much (no surprises there) and you spit out the banana she fed you!
I am really wondering how you are getting on at nursery though as you are meant to nap today! Eekkkk we shall see.
16:00 update
Today is the best day ever! OK that is an exaggeration but I am so happy right now. You drank all your milk in one go at nursery (all 180ml) and YOU NAPPED. OMG how on earth did that happen! You have been so smiley since coming home too. Just a happy chappy. We are wondering if you are happy to be back home or just really enjoyed your time at nursery which put you in a good mood.
Back at home, you also ate very well at lunch and wasn’t too difficult to put down for nap. Happy mummy!
22:50 conclusion of the day
The day continued so well – I can’t believe it! OK it didn’t go so well for Daddy because he is definitely unwell now. We figured he has caught your bug from last week. Poor Daddy. You know he kept reflecting on how you were last week and kept saying how you must have felt so awful ☹️ That aside, I really thought today was a great day. We cut your 3rd birthday cake with grandma, I would even say it was funny when you and your naked bum attempted to crawl away from me while I was trying to wipe poo off you before bath time. You and I even had a giggle session at bedtime while I was holding you in my arms. You silly boy decided to suck the edge of the dummy and I brushed your lower lip with my index finger. You laughed which made me laugh. You then continued to do it for the laughs. It was cute. A short while later, you changed the game to “throwing the dummy onto the floor” which I was less thrilled about so I put a stop to that lol.
I really love that you sometimes have a giggle session with me and/or daddy before bed. It makes me feel like you are going to bed happy and will sleep well (not in terms of not waking us up but that *cough* happens all the time, but in terms of you being content with happy hormones inside of you). Cutie bum, please sleep just as well as last night.
So one of the things mummy promised herself to do before you were born was to keep a good record of our journey together and share bits of it that maybe of interest to others. I have tried hard so far to keep decent records but I haven’t been good at sharing at all. I kept delaying things making excuses for myself. Well I want to start doing this to fulfil a promise to myself so here goes. I think this maybe the first ‘piece’ I publish on my not-up-to-scratch website, just in time for mummy returning to work tomorrow (before 2 days of leave again haha) but it is OK because mummy is just making a start! She may even tidy up the pieces from before 😛