Oh last night was lovely: I had offered to babysit little Alex if my friend wanted a date night with her husband, and they took me up on the offer so they could go and see the latest Harry Potter. As I was preparing to go out, the following exchange took place:
Claire - I'm jealous
Me - You should come with me!
Claire - Um, Alex is cute and all that, but I meant I was jealous of them going to see Harry Potter....
So I went alone. I was slightly anxious that I was going to be left in charge of an 8 week old baby for the first time in probably 20 years (!) but I knew it would be ok. When I got there Alex was wide awake, and I tried to get some giggles out of him, to no avail. Mum and Dad duly went off to catch the film, and I was left "holding the baby". We had some cuddles but it soon became apparent that it was dinner time, so I prepared his bottle and changed him while it was getting to the right temperature. "He might not take it all" said mum - but Alex guzzled those 6 ounces like she hadn't fed him for ages. We had some bonding time, where he obligingly smiled at my silly antics, then he fell asleep on me, and I thought I'd take him up to bed. Of course, when I put him in his pyjamas and "growbag" he woke up and became rather fidgety so I had to take him back down with me. He was so sweet though, because he dozed off on me again and then started smiling in his sleep - until at one point he actually did a belly laugh! He is obviously a very happy boy :)
Anyway, when I was cradling him, soothing him while he fidgeted, I went straight back 20 years and hummed lullabies to him, which he seemed to like. This got me talking to Claire this evening about how I used to sing to her, and my favourite was Golden Slumbers.... which then got me remembering that my sister Melanie once asked mummy to sing "Golden Slums" to her, ha ha. And then, by association, we moved on to the Beatles version and started to search Youtube for some Beatles songs. I found this rather lovely montage that someone did to Golden Slumbers, so if you've got 5 1/2 minutes to spare - enjoy!
Sadly, today I paid the price of the accumulation of busy days (after the hospital trip to London, arts and crafts, a GP visit and babysitting) and started to feel really dizzy and disorientated this afternoon. I put it down to fatigue and stayed home. Nothing a little nap under the blanket with the cat couldn't sort out! I don't think of it as a setback, just a reminder that I still shouldn't fill my days too much. Tomorrow I plan to do practically NOTHING.
Anyway, I'm sure there was other stuff I wanted to talk about, but there's no time now. Nite nite! Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends!
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