Zaya:
Zaya yaps all the time, does things that make my eyes go wide with wonder. She's still a little wonder. She likes to hold the mic, use her hands and explain stuff. She looks like a little doll. She puts both her hands on her chest and says proudly 'Yaya' in a tone that's like 'Mama do you know that I... I'm Yaya'. She doesn't like books , words and letters much yet.
I think I'm pretty well prepared for her boundless energy of running around, asking to be lifted , pulling things out of shelves and waking up several times in the night for milk. I am happy with that aspect - the patience aspect.
She thinks she owns my body. It's hard to tell her she does not. She's clinging for comfort milk every two hours or so and she is 16 months old. Not the best thing, but I'm hoping to stop her around 2 years of age.
I'd like to spend more time doing activities with her, and engage her but that happens too little. It's easy to guilt trip. She needs classes that focus on specific skills. She needs more moisturizing, needs to transition to potty training and also needs to learn to brush and bathe at some point.
She gets sick and manages to stay on high energy, gets us sick. She also moved to toddler class and that was a change with new teachers. For the first time she got a diaper rash.
Weather's been bad. She needs outdoor time and we need friends to hang out with.
I am glad that day care exists but I do wish for more and better. She is happy.
Cooking and Cleaning:
We had more than our fair share of cleaning because we got sick quite some times. So there were deep cleaning rounds one after the other. Everyday cleaning and cooking was done pretty well. We did have disruptions to the kitchen schedule when we got sick and when we traveled but we revived our schedule.
Work:
Work has progressed fairly well and there's a lot of plans and lot of ways I can learn and contribute. Yes, there were disruptions - family, red tape, health and vacation but I did manage to keep the focus and keep getting back to things.
AWS. Data Quality Checks. Pipeline. DSP. notebooks for ad hoc processes - there's a pattern here.
Exercise:
Yoga has been fulfilling. YMCA was great when it happened. It's been a huge gap after we got sick getting back to it. Swimming can be more consistent
Rat needs to get to it too.
Calming down
Fun:
Vacation, surfing, snowboarding, dance, eating, ymca - all of this was fun. I want something more consistent like better weather and outdoor walks.
Yoga has been fulfilling when it happens. It can't be called fun. It's getting in touch with yourself in a profound way.
Driving, Reading
Two things I wish I did way more of.
Distractions
Sickness, red tape, TV, instagram, whatsapp. there was also a tinge of jealousy mixed annoying feeling - and I have to decode why I feel this so I can get out of it.
Progress
Work, CA
Q2
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