Partays 2012

Happy Birthday to me!!

Happy six months to Curtasee!!

Happy married life to Faye and Danny!!

What a whirlwind of events this weekend!  Well, at least for the last few days.  CLM turned six months on Saturday, which happened to be Faye's big day!  At her expense (hor hor hor), we threw Curtasee a big six-month birthday bash.  LOL, open bar and everything!  It was a super long day, since I went from Friday morning at 9am all the way until Saturday night (Sunday morning) after 1am without sleep!  So over 40 hours straight!  Well, for me it was really difficult, especially because I've been so sleep deprived for the last six months!  and I had to drive...it was bad (I dozed off numerous times driving home from the ceremony and almost rear-ended 文生).  Horrible!  I had a great time though.  Food was great, company was better.  So happy for Faye and Danny!  Better yet, Sandra came back to TO to attend the wedding!  I miss her so much!

LOL, the bride is MIA...

Family pic!

See?  Open bar!

Good thing Sunday was sleep catch up day...got a few hours in, whew!

Caught up still!!  Yatta!

Then today!  My birthday!  First, I had to take Curtasee to the pediatrician for his six month check up.  Weighed in at 17lbs 11ozs, back to 50th percentile.  Got jabbed twice and didn't even lift a brow.  Impressed the doctor BIG TIME!  I'm so proud!  Then Tinlop invited Cindy, Meishan and Karen up to my place for dinner.  OMG, too much food!  Kumamoto oysters, uni, cake, macarons, sushi, fruit trays... I feel loved!  Had some wine, great food, great company... can't ask for anything else!

Then I had a 細V moment

Poor Curtasee was so tired, LOL didn't get to sleep until close to midnight.  I should have gone to bed then, but decided to stay up and blog.  I know I'd regret it tomorrow... 3:30am...off to bed now!

Almost End of July La~!

It's almost the end of July (already!) and that means my dearest Curtasee is almost six months old!  Oh boy, time certainly flies!  The sleeping/napping situation is still not great though...

Oh, my Curtasee!  Love you to bits and bits and bits and bits!!!

I Know What I Want For My Birthday This Year!

Aaaahhhh, brings back high school memories!!!  The white one is soooooo sweet!!!

Avocado 好好味!

Curtasee's journey to solids is off to a pretty good start I suppose.  Just a week of spewing out his rice cereal, LOL, and we see progress!  Thanks to the second food we gave him: avocado!  He seems to like avocado quite a bit because his first serving was a good tablespoonful, all in his mouth and NOT his clothes!  This mammie is so impressed!  Coupling his rice cereal with avocado seems to work rather well too so he's eating more and more of the cereal and less and less end up on his clothes.  Tee hee!  Next up: sweet potato!  Let's hope I don't jinx it!

Sleep deprived Curtasee is so grouchy =(

Now if only I can get Curtasee to sleep...

Curtasee, 點解你唔瞓呢?

I thought what all babies did were eat, poop and sleep.  Not my CLM!  He eats, he poops (boy, he poops) but he does NOT sleep.  See, I don't mind waking up several times a night to feed IF he goes back to sleep.  What he does now is wake up for a feed and then stays up.  Sometimes it takes me two hours to get him back to sleep, only to have him wake up an hour later.  我就嚟癲啦!  For the last few days, I've noticed that he no longer falls asleep in the car, stroller, bouncy chair (though he rarely fell asleep in it), not with a pacifier (again, he rarely did anyway), not when rocked, and get this: sometimes not even when nursed.  O.M.G.  Hell breaks loose now.  I can't even feed the bad habit :( not even if I wanted to.  What have I done?!?

So that's nighttime.  Now daytime naps are another story.  In the last few days, CLM napped a maximum of 2 hours.  All day!  and when I say maximum, I mean maximum.  Like, at most.  Today, he napped for no more than an hour.  Ten minutes in the morning, forty minutes in the afternoon and ten minutes in the early evening.  So much for 5-month-olds needing 3 naps totaling 4-5 hours and 9-11 hours at night.  I'd be lucky if he sleeps 6 hours in an entire day.

With efforts to put poor sleep-deprived CLM on a better sleep/nap schedule, I've started a consistent bedtime routine this week.  Although I know I won't see immediate results, I didn't expect things to go downhill!  In attempts to get him in bed by 8:30pm, I start his bedtime routine roughly around 7:30pm.  First with a bath, then story, some songs, then nursing.  This boy just will not sleep!  He starts off all nice and relaxed, happy, giggly then all of a sudden, hell breaks loose and he starts wailing.  I can't keep him in his crib, my bed, anywhere!  Of course, I then give in and let him play (happily) until he starts crying again at around 10:30pm before I nurse him again, to sleep.  So people say, just try to put him down earlier, before he gets too tired and overstimulated.  Sigh...yes, I know...blah blah blah...easier said than done.

Contrary to freaking older generation beliefs, keeping babies up during the day DOES NOT lead to better sleep at night.  SO!  Since CLM napped for all of an hour today, slept crappily last night, had crappy naps the day before, I can pretty much predict that shit will hit the fan tonight.

Now, do I hear a little bitterness you ask?  You betcha.  I'm running on fumes, my poor CLM is not getting enough sleep and then I have people harping down my back telling me what I should be feeding my son?!? and this time it's water.  Like really?  Why not milk?  Because milk's 88% water anyway and that's not good enough?!?  What's so magical about water that you have to insist I give it despite me telling you over and over again it's not necessary?  Is there a nice way to um, say...FACK OFF?!?

/vent
/rant

Now I need some wine...