Well tonight was our first night having dinner with just the three of us and I cannot say it turned out to be the most peaceful of meals. Our Lili decided she had had enough about 7:30pm and we were not quite finished with our dinner. Standing up quieted her down for a bit but nothing would really make her calm down. Of course, she tends to have these brief albeit loud screams as she goes to sleep and although I know that is the way she falls asleep whether either of us are holding her or not, it is a new experience to have it happen at dinner. I finally decided we had to go home for bed and Thom stayed to finish up (the meal was delicious by the way) and of course the minute I got into the hotel room our laughing, smiling baby returned. Right now she is doing her nightly “crib aerobics.” This is when I place her in her crib the normal way and she ends up making a tour of the crib on her back and often sticking her legs and arms out of the slats. I just looked over and there she is gnawing on the wooden slat with both hands sticking out of the crib and her fee doing it, too. She gets into quite a happy mood as she does these aerobics although still interspersed with that “I don’t want to go to sleep” cry. Last night I went over to her to her and to provoke me, she lifted her arms up in that pick me up motion for the first time and gave a huge smile. She did it a little later for Thom. It was a hard one to ignore but she did stay in the crib and seemed perfectly content to do so. The funny thing is that she will do all this movement and talking to her self and then suddenly all will be quiet because she has dropped off to sleep. (I just looked over again and she is doing leg lifts with her right leg).
Look! I can see myself in the mirror at the end of my crib
Today was a big day. We had our last meal as a group and then everyone else had to get their luggage into the hallway at 2:30 and we all loaded onto the bus for our consulate appointment. I never would have thought but I teared up after the little oath was made and actually had to take our daughter out of Thom’s arms to give her a big hug. It just made me realize again how lucky we are that Lili has come into our lives. She is a true gift even in her ornery moods like tonight and let’s admit it both her parents are pretty ornery, too. We said goodbye to everyone and were lucky enough to get a bus with another group back to the White Swan Hotel thanks to Candy who by the way wanted us to say hi to everyone she knows from previous trips.
Naptime on the way to the American Consulate
Thom has a whole bunch of things planned over the next couple of days and we’ll see which ones we are able to accomplish. I think they might be a bit ambitious but we will have to see how things go because in all honesty our baby is overall very adaptable to the changes that keep happening to her and there have been a lot. We were talking over dinner last night about all the things these babies go through and how quickly they adapt to this new situation. As adults, we are usually pretty horrible at adapting that quickly to new things.
Lili and Daddy by the waterfall. Lili doesn’t mind water as long as she is not immersed into it
Quiet has set in over at the crib so I am guessing that Lili has finally finished her aerobic exercise and fallen off to sleep. She is, of course, facing the opposite way that she started but at least all her limbs are inside the bars of the crib. For now.
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