Author: Luciana Misura

Your dad was working until very late so I decided to give you a bath by myself. I planned the whole thing for a while thinking about every step and how I would do it alone. Everything was going really well and I was starting to rinse you when you turned your head too far back and a little bit of water went up your nose. You immediately became frantic, I got you into a choking position so any water could come out and you coughed for a little bit until calming down. You were really red from screaming and I wanted to finish the bath right then, but you still had soap in your lower body. I then held you sitting down in your baby tub so the water wouldn’t go anywhere near your head but the minute I poured some water on your body you went nuts and threw your body backwards, hitting the side of the baby tub with your head. Needless to say you started screaming and crying again, I picked you up and ended the bath right then. You stopped crying in my arms and I wrapped you in your towel, you were fine by the time you were dry, but I was shaken for the rest of the night.

You don’t usually like taking a nap in the afternoon. Yesterday after you cried for a little bit that you were tired (lots of yawnings and rubbing the eyes), I swaddled you and put you on the swing – and you slept for 2 hours! Today I did the same thing and you have been sleeping for 2h20min and counting.

Everything to keep you from crying in the car! Today was the first time that we were alone in the car – mommy driving and you by yourself on the back seat, strapped down in your carseat, which is not your favorite thing even when the grandparents were around. So when we left the house and you were wide awake, I thought we would be in trouble. You started complaining, I turned on the CD player and started the Coldplay CD that I used to listen to when I was pregnant. That didn’t seem to be enough so I started singing along, and you calmed down. You just listened to mommy’s and Coldplay singing the whole drive to Bellevue, just complaining during the quiet time between the songs. On the way back, Coldplay wasn’t working so I found some good radio static noise and you fell asleep after a few minutes.

You had a busy day! You wore a pink piggy costume and was very cute, I was wearing a witch costume. First we went to mommy’s work, they were having a Halloween party there. Unfortunately the party was over fairly early and we just got to see a couple of people there. We walked around with nona to say hi to everybody and headed to mommy’s doctor’s appointment. You stayed in the car with your nona and was being a bit fussy, but you calmed down on the way to daddy’s work. They were also having trick-or-treating for all the kids and we introduced you to daddy’s co-workers. We didn’t stay long because you were quite tired from all the driving and different places, so we went home after that and you took a good nap. You didn’t see all the cute trick-or-treaters that stopped by, you’ll join them next year!