Home alone for the entire week

Today is the start of another scary week. Sander is off to Denmark for a week of training. After sending him to the Schipol airport in Amsterdam, I drove home alone with Kirsten for 1.5hr. This is not her first long journey but its my first with her. Fortunately she was very cooperative.

Kirsten has really been an amazing baby. She has her difficult moments but when we need to go out, she is often very cooperative. So far we managed to stay over at my MIL, attended a halloween party and the last weekend we also managed to stay over at a latino fren's place for games night. She is quite a charmer when we are out and managed to win over the heart of quite a few people and thus allowing more names on our nanny back-up list :)

Aiyo but for my lil gal who loves milk so dearly, she has not been drinking much over the last weekend. Each feed has become shorter and yesterday evening, she only drank half her usual and puked out half of whatever she drank. But she was in fairly good mood and managed to sleep on her own and didnt wake up in the middle of the night. Aiyo so 'ma fan' , on one hand I am worried that she is too 'pang pang' but on the other hand worried when she has such unusual behaviour. Urghh.. really not looking forward to tonight's feed. Especially without Sander home this week, I really dont hope for surprises.

Anyway, since the ang moh way is to let the kid sleep in their own room, as per last weekend, we shifted the cot to her room. Surprisingly Kirsten managed well on her own. In fact it was us who felt a bit empty in our room when she 'moved' out. Wondered how my mum felt during those numerous times when i moved out, to the hall, to shanghai n now here... Really strange n mixed feelings.

Kirsten is now able to smile more frequently its easier to identify her mood /expression. Her motor skills are still not developed though. She can kick very very well but still too lazy to use her hands at all, thus not a slight interest in reaching out for her toys. She kind of settled herself into a routine, sleeping from 11pm -7am with a small panic attack to search for her pacifier at 3+am each night. With the quick feed at 7am, she can then continue sleeping till 9+am before the entire day routine starts. We are really quite pleased with this pattern as it allows us to be quite rested on weekend especially. Aiyo but time really flies and almost 3 months since I stopped working and don't feel that I have 'done' anything sort of feeling. Have listed some things I hope to do before the year run out and hope that I will be successful.