Monkey House

Today went pretty smooth, except that he had no late afternoon nap. He’s slipping into being a 2-nap guy, but the timing is all wrong. He’s more than ready for the next nap after each 2 hours awake, but he fights the 3rd nap so hard (even harder than the 1st two) that it doesn’t really work out.

Morning: Mama Monkey had already been up with the little guy for an hour and a half before I rolled my sorry ass out of bed (thanks, Alie!). So I had very little difficulty entertaining him for a little while. I could see that he was falling asleep as we were walking around, so I fed him a little bit and then let him crash out on my chest. This time I had the remote handy and could see the TV. I napped for about half an hour with him (warm, cuddly little child on your chest? Who WOULDN’T sleep?) and channel surfed for a bit. As it turns out, we had to get the show on the road at 11:00 to make it to a swimming meet-up with the June Mommies in Barrhaven. So I broke the cardinal rule of parenting and woke a sleeping baby.
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Short and sweet:

- Surprise 1.5 hr nap in the morning
- NON-CAR nap in the afternoon (though, only 40 mins… boo, hiss)
- Walked the dogs

The interesting part of the day came in the evening after he had gone to bed. He just started wailing furiously in bed. Like… scary loud and as though he had suffered his first real physical trauma.
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Today I basically passed time between naps. Which, in truth, is how I tend to think of most days. Not that I don’t love hanging out with the little guy and all that, but he’s always so “on on on” (natural for his age) that I look forward to the peace of naps. So, with naps being the “milestones” throughout the day, today was pretty much “wastin’ time”.

Morning was… difficult…
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The usual crappy morning nap, coupled with some all-new variations on crying and suchlike.
Slightly improved “rolling around all over the place; impossible to corral on the mat anymore” skills.

And then we went to Gymboree Sing-and-Play (I think that’s what it’s called; too lazy to look it up!) in the afternoon.
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Before getting to today’s adventures, let me start out by mentioning that this weekend Mama Monkey and I went on our first date since the little guy was born. I’ve been wanting to see Avatar, so we started off with the 1:20 show at Silver City’s 3D Imax. It wasn’t high art or anything, but I had a hell of a good time at that movie. One of the most entertaining films I’ve seen in a while. I’ll leave it to the critics to discuss the shortcomings (most of what they say is accurate), but it was still well worth the money. Or in this case, well worth the gift card!

After that we went to our favourite Vietnamese restaurant, New Mee Fung on Booth. Had the usual: rice paper “roll your own” platters. Yum!

Dates aren’t going to be coming fast and furious now, but we’ll get to some more soon enough.

Day 20

I had a late night last night. He had an early morning (4:00am). The family crossed paths as Alex attempted to hand him over to me and I had to beg for bedtime instead. They eventually made it back to bed, but it was not a good start to the day.
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