The downside of working so far away from home is that evenings consist of getting home between 7.30 and 8, which depends on trains and whether I need to go food shopping on my way back from the station. Then when I’m at home, I have to eat dinner then prepare for work the following day. This only gives me at most 30-40 minutes with Jessica before going to bed.
Yesterday morning I got to spend some proper quality time with the Milk Monster and I loved it. Gabriella had just finished the early-morning feed and was just coming back to bed at 8am. Jessica was, in her usual adorable way, making snuffling, gurgling and grunting noises and didn’t really show any sign of going back to sleep. Wanting Gabriella to get some more sleep, I carried the little one through to the living room and put her on the settee whilst I prepared even more food. Jessica fed for over an hour in total, but she very kindly allowed to get some breakfast myself, by taking short breaks from the bottle. Once full (it does happen apparently!), she happily laid in my arms looking at me with her big, blue eyes. She’s definitely deliberately looking at people, focusing on their faces (Gabriella and I are pretty certain that she’s watching our mouths) and smiling a lot.
By the time Gabriella got up, after her first decent lie-in in ages, Jessica was lying on her baby gym being adorable. I did shoot some video footage and hope to upload it to Jessica’s gallery on our main website (there’s a link – not surprisingly – under Links on the right menu).
Being keen to show Jessica all the fun bits on the baby gym, I started shaking and pressing things for her amusement. Pressing one particular ‘button’, which, unbeknown to me happened to be a squeaker, was right next to Jessica’s ear, caused the little mite to jump and look really startled. Another lesson in parenting learned here – don’t press things that you don’t know what they do in very close proximity to a small child! No harm done thankfully…
Jessica had her first lesson in IT yesterday. The wireless connection between the two PCs wasn’t working. Keen to introduce her to modern technology, I sat her on my lap whilst investigating the problem. I carefully explained what it was I was doing and why, but for some bizarre reason it didn’t seem to interest her, in fact she dozed off in my arms. I’m sure that was because she’d finished another feed only 15 minutes earlier and was nothing to do with the subject matter…
Anyway, I need to sign off now as Jessica’s farfar and farmor will be here shortly.
Ian.