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Aug
Well, for the next week, I am “Mr. Mom.” Leslie is off to a professional conference in California to present some of her work, and in many ways, truly launch her career. It is a great opportunity for her, since she will meet and become known to not only some of the most important people working in her area, but also a number of her peers. Many of these peers (including Leslie!) will go on to become the future leaders in the field. So, it really is a big deal.
I went to a similar conference toward the end of my grad school education, and it still is one of the most memorable single events I took part in. I made a lot of useful contacts, and became friendly with a number of folk with whom I now interact in a variety of capacities. I hope that Leslie has a similar experience.
The trip itself though, is very rough for her. She feels very guilty about “abandoning” her baby, and is also worried that she’ll be gone so long that Sami won’t remember or like her when she comes home next week (after being gone for 8 days). Also, Sami is now taking some formula to stretch out the milk supply that Leslie left for us, which also bothers Leslie alot. It is a tough situation for Leslie to be in, but I am trying to assure her that all will be fine — and I am really sure that it will!
In the meantime, things here are going very well. Sami is liking her daycare now, and she clearly is a favorite — *all* of the teachers know and like her, not only the ones in her room — she is such a sunny, cute, sweetie, it is easy to understand why! She even has a boyfriend, although she isn’t wild about the idea. A boy in her room, Christopher, is a little bit older and mobile, and he is continually going up to Sami, trying to play with her. Sami isn’t interested, so often she just pushes him away, and makes him cry! I can see that we are going to have a real heart-breaker on our hands!
The really big news though, is that Sami is taking to solid food quite well. For breakfast hese days she has cereal — she loves oatmeal and likes barley, but thinks that the rice is truly boring! For other meals, she loves sweet potatoes and peas, and does OK with carrots. Tomorrow we introduce green beans (I can’t contain the excitement!), and once they are established, I am going to introduce bananas as a nice little dessert. It is fun to watch her take to her food. She *really* gets to know the stuff is eating — she likes to squish it in her hands, and although she doesn’t quite know how to do it, she really likes to take a spoon and try to feed herself. Sometimes it is difficult to tell whether she is eating or wearing more of any given meal!
Beyond this, Sami is doing OK with just me around (Leslie left yesterday morning). I am pretty sure that she misses her mommy, since she is insisting on being held a bit more than usual, and when she gets tired and disintigrates she does it with a little more force than usual — however, she is doing fine — sleeping well, eating *really* well (she had a cold for the past two weeks, and although it didn’t seem to suppress her appetite, now that it is fading fast, she is eating *much* more than she used to!). I guess she must be must be having a growth spurt.
OK, Sami is down for a while, and I am starting to get hungry, so I think I’ll go rustle up some dinner …
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