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Son 2 aged 20m came in the bath with me this morning. This was a Good Thing. From when he was tiny, Son 2 lay on his feeding pillow watching me in the shower. Then he sat up and watched me i in the shower. Then he crawled towards the bath. Then he pulled himself up. And then he used to play in the water, every morning, while I showered and washed my hair. Always. At some point recently he wouldn’t come in with me any more. I can’t remember when. Son 1 aged 4y 8m had started watching DVDs downstairs instead of Ben 10-style CItv upstairs… and Son 2 was interested in some of them. Or he was playing with toys. I’ve given him the choice, and off he’s gone. This morning we read 5 stories, and he decided to come in with me. Played with his new watering cans, didn’t want to get out. Nice to have him back.
I went for coffee with a Colleague on maternity leave. An eight month old little girl in the pushchair with us. I held her, and realised I simply couldn’t remember either of the boys at that age. So I’ve been back a year in the Blog. http://mumsnet.com/blogs/serenedays/2008/06/09/before-7am/ On June 9 2008 I’d just had an awful night with Son 2 screaming for me, so bad that I’d left him alone in the small hours and gone downstairs to make a cup of tea. The following day I took him to a cranial osteopath. Now he sleeps through the night, every night. He can cry when I put him down, but never for more than 5 minutes. And today he went to sleep without crying when I left. It all passes.
Son 1 is mad about a Nick Sharrett book called “You Choose.” It came from Nursery in his Bookstart box, and we start off choosing where we are going to go, what sort of house we will live in, who our family and friends will be, our furniture, clothes, food, transport, jobs, hobbies and bed. Well, I choose, and Son 1 says “I’m coming with you.” Tonight we chose a tree house in a forest near a village. Then we did Pumpkin Soup, A Pipkin of Pepper and Delicious. Then I asked: “Did you get the book for me?” Oxfam, again, had a book in the window about a child with Son 2’s (unusual) name. http://mumsnet.com/blogs/serenedays/2009/04/29/well-done-mummy/ Son 1 and I had it from the library when I was pregnant. It may have been where I first got the name idea. I’d asked Wonder Nanny to get it. “Yes.” “Did you read it?” “Yes.” What are the chances of Oxfam, a few hundred yards from our house, putting two children’s books in the window, both featuring the same very unusual boy’s name? There is glue holding this world together.
Tags: bath, blog, bookstart, coincidence, cranial osteopath, Nick sharrett, Oxfam, Pumpkin Soup, settling for bed, sharing bath, shower, sleep problems, sleeping through the night, trackback, You Choose
