My Baby's Back, Hey La, Hey La, My Baby's Back

On Thursday, Wawa awoke from more than just sweet toddler dreams about trucks and puppies. During the night, she had finally escaped the after effects of her vaccination nearly a month ago. Most notably, screaming at the slightest provocation was replaced by normal toddler expressions of frustration. She also woke up hungry for food and not just for breast milk. 


Quite literally, her vocabulary seemed to have undergone a couple of months' worth of development in a single night. I asked her a question and was surprised and delighted as she strung together a sweet rudimentary baby sentence, earnestly delivered with a nod of affirmation at the end for emphasis. She is explaining all manner of fabulous thing to us and expressing her wishes most eloquently and sweetly.


She had a grumpy, teary, needy day on Friday after an early morning phone call woke her before she was ready. Over the weekend, however, she has continued to delight us all. She is singing and dancing and prancing and laughing about the place. Suddenly and much to my surprise she seems to know every word to songs she's been hearing for weeks and months.

She sat on the rug today and put together a wooden train track and played quietly with the trains off and on all afternoon, complete with chugging and tooting sound effects. Last night she did not wake, hungry, at 4am, but slept from around 1am to 7.30am and I can't tell you what a difference that makes.


Did I mention last night that the last few months have been hard? Because seriously, they've been HARD, but tonight my house is halfway to being clean and we have all eaten good nutritious food and suddenly all things are beginning to feel possible again.