Tuesday, November 27, 2007
weekend 24-25 nov 07
for four days over the weekend percy's oma (my mother) was visiting. she came with us to swimming class and got some photos of percy doing the well known boat pose stroke, lick the noodle manouvre, coast on the kick board and fail to blow bubbles breathing technique...
Monday, November 26, 2007
what's been happening...
more of the same and some new stuff. gee, that's enlightening!
sadly we've slipped back to being dummy dependant. i don't even know how it happened. it's annoying because i'm sure it's contributing to her not sleeping as well as she could thru the nite. our nightly routine seems to be two feeds and two 'settles' at indescriminate times. the feeds generally four hours apart.
sleeping is pretty much the only gripe as she is steadily coming along with the eating caper. i've got to read up on what i can give her and start being a little more adventurous- including combining foods. presently she has one food type at a time, unless i mix some with her baby cereal. meals follow a pattern of vegetable or fruit mashed up to refusal, then baby cereal into which i surreptiously mix small portions of the previous veg or fruit if any was left after the refusal point. and also a good slurp of water from the sippy cup along the way.
on the adorable side she's taking independant steps. if we hold her elbows she will "walk" a few steps without us influencing her by dragging her or manipulating her in other ways. this is very cute to watch her little knees raise up high and her feet swing and solidly plant themselves before the next foot takes off.
she takes great glee in her baths, sucking the face cloth and splashing with whole body convulsions- don't need to clean the bathroom once percy has wet it down! she has some bath toys that fill with water enabling us to squirt her. her preferred target is straight in her mouth! this causes occasional splutters and coughs but she's always back for more. sucking, trying to digest the bath sides is also a preferred activity.
her appetite for paper remains undiminished. we have a really thick papered magazine from mcgrath real estate that has kept her entertained for two weeks now. it's an appropriate use seeing as we can't afford any of the property in it! ordinary magazines are confetti in minutes while newspaper is pulp in seconds. in fact we don't bother with newspaper anymore. i assume i'm not teaching her any respect for books- oh dear. perhaps she can differentiate between mags and books tho as she doesn't try to destroy her books as vigourously as the 'lighter' media.
that's it for now...
sadly we've slipped back to being dummy dependant. i don't even know how it happened. it's annoying because i'm sure it's contributing to her not sleeping as well as she could thru the nite. our nightly routine seems to be two feeds and two 'settles' at indescriminate times. the feeds generally four hours apart.
sleeping is pretty much the only gripe as she is steadily coming along with the eating caper. i've got to read up on what i can give her and start being a little more adventurous- including combining foods. presently she has one food type at a time, unless i mix some with her baby cereal. meals follow a pattern of vegetable or fruit mashed up to refusal, then baby cereal into which i surreptiously mix small portions of the previous veg or fruit if any was left after the refusal point. and also a good slurp of water from the sippy cup along the way.
on the adorable side she's taking independant steps. if we hold her elbows she will "walk" a few steps without us influencing her by dragging her or manipulating her in other ways. this is very cute to watch her little knees raise up high and her feet swing and solidly plant themselves before the next foot takes off.
she takes great glee in her baths, sucking the face cloth and splashing with whole body convulsions- don't need to clean the bathroom once percy has wet it down! she has some bath toys that fill with water enabling us to squirt her. her preferred target is straight in her mouth! this causes occasional splutters and coughs but she's always back for more. sucking, trying to digest the bath sides is also a preferred activity.
her appetite for paper remains undiminished. we have a really thick papered magazine from mcgrath real estate that has kept her entertained for two weeks now. it's an appropriate use seeing as we can't afford any of the property in it! ordinary magazines are confetti in minutes while newspaper is pulp in seconds. in fact we don't bother with newspaper anymore. i assume i'm not teaching her any respect for books- oh dear. perhaps she can differentiate between mags and books tho as she doesn't try to destroy her books as vigourously as the 'lighter' media.
that's it for now...
Sunday, November 18, 2007
holy smoke, batman!
what a very interesting weekend we've had. for the first time in her life (seven and half months of it) percy slept thru the nite on saturday 17 november 2007. fancy that, hey? this was the perfect nite to do it as paul's parents agreed to babysit while we went out. just paul and i. just the two of us. alone. no percy. what a decidedly odd feeling that was.
we did our usual bedtime routine and she dropped off nearly instantly. we were out the door by 7:30pm. home again around 9:30pm so not an extensive nite on the booze or anything like that but really, really appreciated. she had a little protest at 11:30pm which was soothed away by the dummy ('nother story about the resumption of dummy use.) and then we didn't hear from her until 6:00am! paul woke around 4:00am and asked when i had fed her, to which i replied "i haven't yet", that surprised him. consequence of not feeding thru the nite was terribly engorged breasts come the morning. they didn't know percy wasn't going to want them! she cleared that problem up quick smart at 6:00am anyways. then went back to sleep for another 40 minutes. gee whiz it keeps getting better!
sadly last nite was back to the usual, a couple of feeds and a couple of settles. oh well. there is hope. it can be done once- it can be done again!
we did our usual bedtime routine and she dropped off nearly instantly. we were out the door by 7:30pm. home again around 9:30pm so not an extensive nite on the booze or anything like that but really, really appreciated. she had a little protest at 11:30pm which was soothed away by the dummy ('nother story about the resumption of dummy use.) and then we didn't hear from her until 6:00am! paul woke around 4:00am and asked when i had fed her, to which i replied "i haven't yet", that surprised him. consequence of not feeding thru the nite was terribly engorged breasts come the morning. they didn't know percy wasn't going to want them! she cleared that problem up quick smart at 6:00am anyways. then went back to sleep for another 40 minutes. gee whiz it keeps getting better!
sadly last nite was back to the usual, a couple of feeds and a couple of settles. oh well. there is hope. it can be done once- it can be done again!
Thursday, November 15, 2007
the experiment continues
percy is still in her own room. it's working no worse than having her in ours. so far it's not actually working better either but perhaps that will come. the regime last nite was bed at 6:45pm, paul settle with 'shooshing' around 8pm, breastfeed at 10:30pm, me settle with 'shooshing' at 1:30am, breastfeed at 2:30am, awake at 6:15am. paul brought her into our bed when she woke in the morning as we just couldn't move yet. she gurgled and scratched our faces and pulled our hair for half an hour before she had her breastfeed breakfast at 6:45am.
it's not perfect but we can only hope for better as she gets older.
her eating is now going backwards. damn it! can we please have a break some where? i'm sick of "persisting", i want a bloody result!
on an interesting note; she fell asleep on her side this afternoon.
on a not-so-encouraging note; we are resorting to using the dummy a little more again. just to get her calm if she really screams when in her cot. we then ease it when she is nodding off. is this a good practice? don't bloody know, don't care that much either.
proof she does actually sleep...
it's not perfect but we can only hope for better as she gets older.
her eating is now going backwards. damn it! can we please have a break some where? i'm sick of "persisting", i want a bloody result!
on an interesting note; she fell asleep on her side this afternoon.
on a not-so-encouraging note; we are resorting to using the dummy a little more again. just to get her calm if she really screams when in her cot. we then ease it when she is nodding off. is this a good practice? don't bloody know, don't care that much either.
proof she does actually sleep...
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
a place of her own
after a 4:30am melt down from me this morning paul shifted all percy's things out of our room and into our second bedroom. which means no more spare room but hopefully better sleeping and a less irrational me.
she's having her first nap in her own room right now. it's a big move in my mind but probably not in reality. i'm too tired and over-wrought to do anything else this morning. my parents group have organised to meet to see the mums and bubs session at broadway cinemas this morning. the movie starts at 10:30am and even with the huge number of ads broadway always plays, if percy is still sleeping there is no way i'm getting her up to get there on time. we shall see...
p.s i'm having the cats killed- they pissed me off just way too much last nite. the only thing stopping me so far is lethargy. the cat cages are under the stairs behind heaps of other crap and i can't be assed to get them out. otherwise they'd be on their way to the vet and permanent sleepy land.
she's having her first nap in her own room right now. it's a big move in my mind but probably not in reality. i'm too tired and over-wrought to do anything else this morning. my parents group have organised to meet to see the mums and bubs session at broadway cinemas this morning. the movie starts at 10:30am and even with the huge number of ads broadway always plays, if percy is still sleeping there is no way i'm getting her up to get there on time. we shall see...
p.s i'm having the cats killed- they pissed me off just way too much last nite. the only thing stopping me so far is lethargy. the cat cages are under the stairs behind heaps of other crap and i can't be assed to get them out. otherwise they'd be on their way to the vet and permanent sleepy land.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
reflections on hawaii
by the time we got to hawaii we were all touristed out. so while there are plenty of things to see and do both on the main island and all the other littler ones we flexed out. the only energetic thing we did was climb to the top of diamond head crater to see the sunrise one morning. this was because percy was still on some other time zone and woke, ready for the day to begin at 4am.
otherwise we had lazy swims, some slow walks, big meals and happy playing sessions with percy. percy scored herself some new swimmers here too. and her mum got another hat. well, it was hot and sunny and it would have been dangerous for me to be without one! funny story about the hats- yes, paul got one too. everyone we have asked since we arrived home thinks they look like straw versions of american cowboy hats. we think so too. well, in hawaii we had three different people, without them hearing us speak, ask us if we were aussiiieees. very weird. we put it down to the tv program 'mcleods daughters', which is very big overseas. apparently they wear hats like this. i'll have to watch an episode now. i would have assumed they wore akubras.
the hotel in honolulu was very nice. the new otani kamani beach hotel. it's away from the main wakiki tourist area but only 20-30 minutes walk back to there if you want to. we had a fabulous (upgrade) room overlooking the beach and the ocean, with views back to wakiki. the dining "room" was an outdoor terrace covered in an ancient, gnarled tree, facing the ocean. we had good weather every day, except for one spot of rain one evening. it was lovely to sit either on our balcony or the dining terrace and chill. percy gave us a mad dash back to our room one breakfast. this was funny in hind sight... we'd just been seated for breakfast, hadn't even ordered yet when i look down at percy sitting in her stroller to see poo leaking out her pants leg and all over the stroller!! yucko! "hold the table- we'll be back!' paul picked up stroller, baby and all and made a beeline for the lifts. after washing percy and her stroller down we returned sans stroller, plus sling, as if nothing had happened. was that the worst applied nappy ever? i have no idea, i thought it would have been the same as most others. oh well, it's funny to laugh at now.
piccies from honolulu... (coming soon)
Monday, November 5, 2007
reflections on new york city
we did go there. i'm just a long way behind in writing about it.
primarily i'd say new york is made for childless adults. we still had a good time, saw a few of the sights and enjoyed ourselves. i am thinking of re-naming our trip: "the world tour of scaffolding", a lot of the buildings i want to take in were either partially or completely covered in scaffolding! this included the palace at versailles (one whole wing), the flat iron building (part of one facade), the gorgeous buildings lining central park and believe it or not the entire guggenhiem museum!! we'd been laughing about what was covered as we walked up the side of central park to the guggenhiem. we'd decided that because we'd just spent a few hours in the metropolitan museum of art we were museumed out and would just gawk at the architecture of the gug. not to be! paul spied it first and starting laughing and apologising all at once. i was confused until he pointed, "that's the gug..." am i the god of scaffolding? does this stuff just erect itself when it sees me coming? never mind, i'm thinking of stealing percy's 'gap year' for myself, sending her straight to uni or down the mines and taking the world trip myself. will the gug still be there in 17 years? might have to go earlier than that.
we had a hotel on west 46th street. which is not an interesting part of town really. it just seemed sort of central to me when i was booking. we did walk nearly everywhere- including one monster trip on our first day from 46th street all the way to the southern tip of manhatten. this is not just a 46 block walk for those of you not familiar with new york, as the southern end continues with streets that are not numbered but have normal names. we went past times square, down broadway, thru soho and washington square, past the world trade centre site to arrive at the park on the southern tip. sorry, the name escapes me and i'm too lazy to go look it up. we decided not to visit the statue of liberty as being trapped on a boat with a potentially nuclear percy is something we think we can do without. besides, i understand you're not allowed inside and to the top anymore anyways.
we walked part way back up the western side of manhatten. nice parks and some pretty boats to look at on that side. we took the subway/train the remaining two thirds, once the parks ran out. the new york subway is not designed for strollers. stairs everywhere, locked gates, narrow barriers and no-one to query or ask for help. oh well. i'm coming to think that most metropolitan train systems are relics from days when only men in dark suits would use them to get out the rain and have clandistine meetings with their handlers from the cia. except singapore- singapore is big and wide and clean and has escalators or elevators and runs so on time you can set your watch by it. however it's a modern system.
we did go to the top of the empire state building. which was being renovated- is this a close cousin to scaffolding? i could have spent ages looking out from the observation deck. not necessarily because the view was that captivating, tho it was quite impressive, rather because i'm fascinated by the detail. i would have picked out every roof top water tank, window, plant, gargoyle, pool, billboard, boat, bridge and bus if i was left alone long enough. not sure what this points to- my prediliction to autism? gee, that's positive. however we didn't spend that long as percy didn't seem so chuffed- does nothing impress that girl!
an interesting aside to the ascent of the empire state building is this tourist schmaltz of having your photo taken in front of a green screen and then purchasing said photo printed over the building or view or whatever. we hate these things and largely try to skip it. the guys running the gig at the empire seemed very angry that we walked right by insisting we we're going to buy their crappy photo anyways. afterwards i started to think maybe it's got two other purposes; 1. crowd control- if things get a bit pushy or out of hand one way to slow it all down and return order is to get your damn picture taken. 2. the more sinister idea is that with everyone having their piccie snapped there is a record of everyone entering the observation areas. were we risking national security by refusing to smile for the box browning? uh oh.
who's got $20 for a cheesy shot anyways?
i really liked central park. i think percy did too. we spent a while walking about, exploring belvedere castle and stumbling thru a movie/tv shoot which looked a lot like a wedding scene from 'wedding crashers' or similar.
the smaller city parks were a revelation in one regard. areas within the park are fenced off, quite small areas really, for leash-free dog runs. i suppose i'm spoiled with having sydney park just down the road, seeing doggies run over the hill and far away without a care. these little dog runs presented as very poor comparisons.
one day we booked a boat ride. as the time came to board we fronted up to the ticket kiosk, waiting patiently. not something i'm good at with percy in tow. we didn't wait long for the news to arrive that all river traffic has been shut down; our boat wasn't goin' nowhere. why was this? because the UN was having a big pow wow and little george was arriving by boat!! rude bastard. well we got our money back and took on of those open top, hop on/ hop off bus tours instead. this wasn't the brightest idea either. just 'cause little george was going by boat didn't mean all the other big wigs were. traffic in new york, which i understand can be a little tight and stressful anyways, really wasn't moving. even the tour guide apologised and said he'd rarely seen it this bad before.
i definately want to spend more time in new york. there's absolutely heaps we didn't see and couldn't do. i'd like to live there for a while to get a real grasp on it, much the same as london. somehow paris didn't exert the same pull. perhaps i want to keep paris for romantic visits, while nyc and london are places to find all the sides, shades, quirks, good and bad points. of course there is nowhere like sydney. i imagine i'll always want to come back here as 'home.' however there are plenty of places in the world i haven't been, one might pip sydney for the relaxed embrace of welcome one day.
leaving new york was less stressful than arriving. our flight into new york was held on the tarmac for three hours because a terminal couldn't be found for us! percy was over the plane thing by that time. she wasn't screaming or crying, just a lot of squirming and 'can i please do something else now.' due to the plane having landed but not yet arrived at the terminal we were required to remain seated the whole time and the bloody crew wouldn't return the bassinet either. it's not like the plane was moving!
all up new york was good and will be better next time around because we'll take longer and percy will be a little (or big) girl so we'll do much more.
photos up separately...
primarily i'd say new york is made for childless adults. we still had a good time, saw a few of the sights and enjoyed ourselves. i am thinking of re-naming our trip: "the world tour of scaffolding", a lot of the buildings i want to take in were either partially or completely covered in scaffolding! this included the palace at versailles (one whole wing), the flat iron building (part of one facade), the gorgeous buildings lining central park and believe it or not the entire guggenhiem museum!! we'd been laughing about what was covered as we walked up the side of central park to the guggenhiem. we'd decided that because we'd just spent a few hours in the metropolitan museum of art we were museumed out and would just gawk at the architecture of the gug. not to be! paul spied it first and starting laughing and apologising all at once. i was confused until he pointed, "that's the gug..." am i the god of scaffolding? does this stuff just erect itself when it sees me coming? never mind, i'm thinking of stealing percy's 'gap year' for myself, sending her straight to uni or down the mines and taking the world trip myself. will the gug still be there in 17 years? might have to go earlier than that.
we had a hotel on west 46th street. which is not an interesting part of town really. it just seemed sort of central to me when i was booking. we did walk nearly everywhere- including one monster trip on our first day from 46th street all the way to the southern tip of manhatten. this is not just a 46 block walk for those of you not familiar with new york, as the southern end continues with streets that are not numbered but have normal names. we went past times square, down broadway, thru soho and washington square, past the world trade centre site to arrive at the park on the southern tip. sorry, the name escapes me and i'm too lazy to go look it up. we decided not to visit the statue of liberty as being trapped on a boat with a potentially nuclear percy is something we think we can do without. besides, i understand you're not allowed inside and to the top anymore anyways.
we walked part way back up the western side of manhatten. nice parks and some pretty boats to look at on that side. we took the subway/train the remaining two thirds, once the parks ran out. the new york subway is not designed for strollers. stairs everywhere, locked gates, narrow barriers and no-one to query or ask for help. oh well. i'm coming to think that most metropolitan train systems are relics from days when only men in dark suits would use them to get out the rain and have clandistine meetings with their handlers from the cia. except singapore- singapore is big and wide and clean and has escalators or elevators and runs so on time you can set your watch by it. however it's a modern system.
we did go to the top of the empire state building. which was being renovated- is this a close cousin to scaffolding? i could have spent ages looking out from the observation deck. not necessarily because the view was that captivating, tho it was quite impressive, rather because i'm fascinated by the detail. i would have picked out every roof top water tank, window, plant, gargoyle, pool, billboard, boat, bridge and bus if i was left alone long enough. not sure what this points to- my prediliction to autism? gee, that's positive. however we didn't spend that long as percy didn't seem so chuffed- does nothing impress that girl!
an interesting aside to the ascent of the empire state building is this tourist schmaltz of having your photo taken in front of a green screen and then purchasing said photo printed over the building or view or whatever. we hate these things and largely try to skip it. the guys running the gig at the empire seemed very angry that we walked right by insisting we we're going to buy their crappy photo anyways. afterwards i started to think maybe it's got two other purposes; 1. crowd control- if things get a bit pushy or out of hand one way to slow it all down and return order is to get your damn picture taken. 2. the more sinister idea is that with everyone having their piccie snapped there is a record of everyone entering the observation areas. were we risking national security by refusing to smile for the box browning? uh oh.
who's got $20 for a cheesy shot anyways?
i really liked central park. i think percy did too. we spent a while walking about, exploring belvedere castle and stumbling thru a movie/tv shoot which looked a lot like a wedding scene from 'wedding crashers' or similar.
the smaller city parks were a revelation in one regard. areas within the park are fenced off, quite small areas really, for leash-free dog runs. i suppose i'm spoiled with having sydney park just down the road, seeing doggies run over the hill and far away without a care. these little dog runs presented as very poor comparisons.
one day we booked a boat ride. as the time came to board we fronted up to the ticket kiosk, waiting patiently. not something i'm good at with percy in tow. we didn't wait long for the news to arrive that all river traffic has been shut down; our boat wasn't goin' nowhere. why was this? because the UN was having a big pow wow and little george was arriving by boat!! rude bastard. well we got our money back and took on of those open top, hop on/ hop off bus tours instead. this wasn't the brightest idea either. just 'cause little george was going by boat didn't mean all the other big wigs were. traffic in new york, which i understand can be a little tight and stressful anyways, really wasn't moving. even the tour guide apologised and said he'd rarely seen it this bad before.
i definately want to spend more time in new york. there's absolutely heaps we didn't see and couldn't do. i'd like to live there for a while to get a real grasp on it, much the same as london. somehow paris didn't exert the same pull. perhaps i want to keep paris for romantic visits, while nyc and london are places to find all the sides, shades, quirks, good and bad points. of course there is nowhere like sydney. i imagine i'll always want to come back here as 'home.' however there are plenty of places in the world i haven't been, one might pip sydney for the relaxed embrace of welcome one day.
leaving new york was less stressful than arriving. our flight into new york was held on the tarmac for three hours because a terminal couldn't be found for us! percy was over the plane thing by that time. she wasn't screaming or crying, just a lot of squirming and 'can i please do something else now.' due to the plane having landed but not yet arrived at the terminal we were required to remain seated the whole time and the bloody crew wouldn't return the bassinet either. it's not like the plane was moving!
all up new york was good and will be better next time around because we'll take longer and percy will be a little (or big) girl so we'll do much more.
photos up separately...
Sunday, November 4, 2007
not coherent...
...from lack of sleep. poor little percy ain't doing so well. this was the regime last nite:
7:00pm: to bed pretty much asleep before her head hit the mattress
7:40pm: wake up crying, turn into inconsolable screaming- i took her to bed with me; no success, dummy; no success, rocking and singing and bouncing; finally success
8:25pm: back to sleep
10:00pm: settle in cot
11:00pm: breastfeed, back to sleep in cot immediately
1:30am: settle in cot
3:00am: breastfeed, back to sleep in cot immediately
5:30am: settle in cot
6:30am wake for day, clapping, talking quietly, clicking tongue in cot
6:50am: paul got her up.
i really can't think what is causing this, nor what to do to make her sleep longer periods. i suppose i ought to be thankful that she goes back to sleep after the breastfeeds immediately. and perhaps i shouldn't have put her down at 7pm for all intents and purposes asleep. i could have woken her a little and read a story before placing her in her cot. would this have changed anything? i have my doubts... she's been waking earlier in the evening for four nites running now. nite before last it was
8:45pm, before that 9:15pm. maybe we'll get it back to 7pm and then it won't matter! ha ha.
it's lucky she is so cute and adorable when she's awake during the day because she's pushing the friendship at nite!
7:00pm: to bed pretty much asleep before her head hit the mattress
7:40pm: wake up crying, turn into inconsolable screaming- i took her to bed with me; no success, dummy; no success, rocking and singing and bouncing; finally success
8:25pm: back to sleep
10:00pm: settle in cot
11:00pm: breastfeed, back to sleep in cot immediately
1:30am: settle in cot
3:00am: breastfeed, back to sleep in cot immediately
5:30am: settle in cot
6:30am wake for day, clapping, talking quietly, clicking tongue in cot
6:50am: paul got her up.
i really can't think what is causing this, nor what to do to make her sleep longer periods. i suppose i ought to be thankful that she goes back to sleep after the breastfeeds immediately. and perhaps i shouldn't have put her down at 7pm for all intents and purposes asleep. i could have woken her a little and read a story before placing her in her cot. would this have changed anything? i have my doubts... she's been waking earlier in the evening for four nites running now. nite before last it was
8:45pm, before that 9:15pm. maybe we'll get it back to 7pm and then it won't matter! ha ha.
it's lucky she is so cute and adorable when she's awake during the day because she's pushing the friendship at nite!
Thursday, November 1, 2007
call docs
aarrgghhh! it's finally happened. i'm officially a neglectful mother.
percy rolled off the bed today.
as everyone says- "i only turned away for a second!" in actual fact i probably didn't have my eyes on her for five or six seconds. she was comfortably sitting in the centre of our bed playing with some toys. i was looking in a cupboard for something, next instant; "thud!" i've never moved around that bed so fast! i scooped her up and said excitedly- "well that was different wasn't it!" i was frantically trying to distract her whilst checking for broken limbs, bruising, floppy bits, any sign of damage. thankfully there didn't appear to be any. she also didn't seem half as bothered as i was- not a cry, not a tear, not even an exclamation. she landed on hands and knees which probably meant she didn't knock her head and therefore wasn't hurt. (is she part cat?- we were contemplating that the new ability to click her tongue means she's part dolphin; are there other animals present?) she carried on just fine and is now having her afternoon nap. she generally has a good sleep on friday afternoons because the swimming class in the morning means her morning sleep is short, added to the excitment and adventure of the class she's pretty tuckered out come the afternoon. of course if she sleeps really well i'll probably just panic again thinking it's a response to the fall and that i've irrepairably hurt her.
lesson learned; she really is getting pretty mobile what with rolling and squirming and stretching, i can't assume she'll be fine and i ought to be more diligent.
yes, your honour, it will never happen again (until the next unforeseen calamity), please give me my daughter back.
percy rolled off the bed today.
as everyone says- "i only turned away for a second!" in actual fact i probably didn't have my eyes on her for five or six seconds. she was comfortably sitting in the centre of our bed playing with some toys. i was looking in a cupboard for something, next instant; "thud!" i've never moved around that bed so fast! i scooped her up and said excitedly- "well that was different wasn't it!" i was frantically trying to distract her whilst checking for broken limbs, bruising, floppy bits, any sign of damage. thankfully there didn't appear to be any. she also didn't seem half as bothered as i was- not a cry, not a tear, not even an exclamation. she landed on hands and knees which probably meant she didn't knock her head and therefore wasn't hurt. (is she part cat?- we were contemplating that the new ability to click her tongue means she's part dolphin; are there other animals present?) she carried on just fine and is now having her afternoon nap. she generally has a good sleep on friday afternoons because the swimming class in the morning means her morning sleep is short, added to the excitment and adventure of the class she's pretty tuckered out come the afternoon. of course if she sleeps really well i'll probably just panic again thinking it's a response to the fall and that i've irrepairably hurt her.
lesson learned; she really is getting pretty mobile what with rolling and squirming and stretching, i can't assume she'll be fine and i ought to be more diligent.
yes, your honour, it will never happen again (until the next unforeseen calamity), please give me my daughter back.
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