Life has been on hold a bit for me lately. That sounds a bit too drastic. What I mean is that all the extras of life have been on hold. Day-to-day things are pretty much as usual: I have fun with the boy; I go to work and enjoy my job; I manage to keep the house vaguely clean and tidy etc. etc. etc. but the extra incidental things: this blog; my art and craft; emailing, or even meeting up with, good friends, have rather fallen by the wayside. As usual, it’s down to lack of sleep. Thomas, my beautiful little boy, is going through a phase of loooong night wakings. For 2 or 3 hours at a time he gazes forlornly up at me, comfort sucking with a slightly worried little frown above his wide-open eyes. We call him the cuscus baby (well actually, I’ve been calling him the couscous baby as my spelling’s not so good, but searching for an image for this post has put me straight).
Image found through google image search. It comes from this blog: colunas.epoca.globo.com/animal/2008/05/ and I really hope it's OK to use it - it's hard for me to tell as the original blog is in Spanish.
Cute, eh? It’s lucky Thomas is just as cute – gazing into his eyes just about keeps me going at 3am.
Well I’m determined that this blog will not wither and die. I still poke my nose around in blog land so I’d still like to keep contributing to it myself. I’m not going to commit to any grand plans but I do have a little idea that might help me keep going. Every evening I ask my husband “What’s been your favourite Boo-moment today?” (Aside: Boo is what we usually call Thomas. It’s a shortening of Snarfaboo which itself is a shortening of Snarfaboo-Snarfabum, an affectionate lengthening of Snarfy, the informal form of King Snarfalot, so named because he’s King of the household and he made lots of snuffly-snarfy noises in his moses basket next to our bed at night. And to think that before he was born I was worried we wouldn’t be able to come up with any nicknames for him!) Anyway, I thought I could share our favourite Boo-moments on this blog – partly as a record for myself and partly because they’re cute and funny. I also aim to take more pictures and share them here.
Today’s favourite Boo-moment: watching him play with a muslin. It’s amazing how much fun one small boy can have with a piece of cloth. Usually he throws it over his head and dramatically boos me milliseconds later. This evening he was playing boo with his own feet. Strange child. And as a bonus I’ll share yesterday’s best Boo-moment: as we were making breakfast… well, I was making breakfast and Boo was in his funpod throwing empty yoghurt pots on the floor and eating cereal but anyway… I was nattering away about what I was doing. ‘There’s your milk and now mummy’s making her coffee’. Cue a fake coughing fit from Boo. Now at breakfast he points to my coffee mug, coughs and giggles. I think that’s as close as you can get to making a pun when you can’t yet talk. Oh dear, the boy certainly has his Daddy’s sense of humour.
Welcome back! I really miss your writing, so I’ll be excited to keep reading if you do find time to blog more frequently.
My DH says he has “a lot of respect” for your baby nicknames – just a few hours earlier this evening we were trying to remember all of those that have been in frequent rotation at various points during Jacob’s life. I was going to list them here but I think there’s a blog post in it all so I’m going to go away and compile a comprehensive list
Hope the sleep sorts it out soon – go away and write on your forehead backwards in permanent marker pen … “This too shall pass”. Because it will. One day
xxxx
Love the writing-on-the-forehead idea. Unfortunately I have to go to work tomorrow and I think my officemate would finally conclude that I’ve gone completely mad, if she hasn’t done so already.
Looking forward to your comprehensive nickname list…