April bring your kids to work day

Here are some pics of Syona at Bring your Kids to Work day. I even brought her eBay badge she got issued from last year! haha

From Left to right (Syona, Ellen's girl Corrigan, Kathy's baby, McKenna)

a day in the city with syona's new wagon

Syona LOVES her wagon. When you mention it, she laughs and shake her hands. Love it!

Thank yOU uncle bij and masi!

I don't know

Syona is now able to answer almost any question with these three words. They are now audibly understandable. I love this clip

Syonasmuma

This mother's day we had plans of meeting in the Campbell farmers market and the two girls in the household had a good time getting ready for it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0gK8uqtIBs

However, morning showers changed our plans such that we directly went to the mother's day BBQ tradition started last year. Regardless, it was fun getting together with the Bas, NaiNais, Bhabhis-

Syona was playing in the backyard with her new red we wagon with the Masis and GuGus. Afterwards the whole gang watched a pretty good movie "It's complicated" with Faiba/Fuwa/Drs Sarah and Madhu.

Syona the good girl

So I have to give her serious props. She is taking this whole weaning thing very well. She has not cried about it once. I think the harder part for her is the sleeping on her own and having me not come and comfort her, but other than that, she is totally cool with drinking from her bottle. I know she still dreams about breast feeding, because once in a while she tugs at my shirt and asks, "mum mum" but then I reminder her what a good girl she is and how she is big and give her a bottle and she drinks from it. I am truly really proud of her. I know in her life of accomplishments, I think this is a really big one and starts of the others very promisingly. She is secure and confidant enough to let go of the breast feeding, and respect me asking her to, and listening to me and trying to be a good girl. I am so so proud of her. I forgot to say I got her a lollipop at the hello kitty store yesterday and let her wear my new pearl necklace for a while today and told her its because she is a big girl!

OH, and one other super cute thing she did, I've been sick and blowing my nose all day and yesterday she grabbed a piece of toilet paper and held it up to her nose and blew and I started cracking up and she was smiling and looking if there was anything on her piece of tissue- I melted, so super sweet. She copying what I do, aww.

Weaning the Little One

(Pic above of Syona at CDM with Ba and Nai Nai week of Spring Break)

So the time has finally come, I think it's time to wean Syona. I must say, I do enjoy the breastfeeding, having her close and cuddled, making inside jokes only she and I share and giggling away, plus the routine we have with bringing her in our bed and me just feeding her while I sleep was a pretty sweet deal for the last few months. hOWEVER, Syona asking for mum mum whenever we go out is getting pretty inconvenient. It is very sweet that she wants to be with muma, even if it's just a 10 second quick fix, but I think I can part with the good stuff for the fact that it will be nice to not have little hands squeezing my nipples through my shirt. It seems surreal to even think of a time when I can hold Syona worry free of her asking for mum mum, when she and I can just hug and play and be and she feels loved and comforted from me in other ways.

So we started the weaning process last night. We are sort of coupling it with the she has to sleep in her own crib now process, which is a lot of work all at once, but kind of goes together because she relates nursing with sleeping and the only way to disassociate that for now is to not have she and I cuddle all night long. Boo, I do miss that though, even though it has just been one night.

Last night was tough though. It reminded me of the early days when we could not get her to stop crying. She went to sleep with Paul just fine at 7:30 but then woke up shortly before 11 asking for me. I went in first and even though all the websites said stay strong, I folded in like 7 minutes. Haha. So I nursed her, but then took her off early. This she did not like at all. She cried and wailed and cried and cried so much, she was mad! I have never seen her SO mad. So I fed her again (bad i know!), and ended up feeding her like 6 times to satiate her. Every time she would say, "all done, right there" pointing to her crib, and I would put her in her crib, and then she would call for me moments after. She knew something was up. So Paul brought the big guns in and toughed it out with her for probably 1+ hours. I saw a pillow in her room this morning, so he must have camped out there for some time. Any case, I did not feed her through the night, but did feed her this morning once and then did not feed her ALL day! The cool thing is, we spent all day together because today is my day off, and she asked for mum mum in the morning but I explained to her that she is a big girl now and mum mum all done and that she should have her bottle (a few times) and then she finally took her bottle. I was actually kind of surprised. So then I played off that the rest of the day, and kept telling her how she is a big girl and muma is so proud of her and that she is drinking from her bottle, and I know she could understand because her eyes would move around to what I was referring to or talking about. Like when I said, "Muma's mum mum all done, Syona a big girl now, she drinking from bottle, wow, good girl!", she would like at my shirt and then look at the bottle and sometimes I could even see her little eyebrows moving like she was thinking hard.

In any case, Paul is putting her to bed tonight. I hear a few cries... but seems to be going fairly okay. I think this may be another long night...