9 August 2015

OKAY - the pictures on the last blog were so not lining up the way I wanted them to.  Onward and forward!

Thank goodness, the last 3-4 days, F has been sleeping so much better than usual.  She's going to bed generally between 8-9pm and not waking up until 5-6am.  If it's closer to 5am, I've been able to go settle her pretty quickly, and if it's closer to 6am, I've usually been feeding T anyway, so she's come to cuddle with us.  I was talking to Jean about Felicity's wakefulness - I assume it's a combination of an over-active imagination and clinginess.  Jean gave me a really useful analogy.  Ford verses a Ferrari.  Some people are built more sensitively - and it doesn't take much for them to be driven (or drive themselves) around emotional bends.  And they need more time to learn to drive.  But no one who's emotionally built like a Ferrari is ever going to wish they're a Ford.  I really hope this will be the case with Felicity - that all this time and affection and affirmation that we are giving her when she needs it (even at the expense of uninterrupted sleep) will make her more empathetic and able to give that support to other people too.  I pray that Ferrari sensitivity turns outward-looking with a servant heart, rather than inward-looking with selfishness (ie., drama queen.)

Delphiniums, coreopsis, verbena, lavender, and geraniums

The jungle is being tamed.

The coreopsis had two plants growing in the same pot, so I divided the rootball and had a free plant!  The geraniums were on clearance, but looked like they stll had plenty of life in them,

My backyard looking towards the house.

So the garden progresses.  I've spent some time this weekend teasing out the strawberry plants that have been colonizing the brick pavers.  I'm setting them out with some weed suppressant material.  I'm hoping that my neighbor will let me set some in her side yard, as it would prevent the rosebay willow herb weeds coming back next year.

We have been enjoying being outside when we can and I introduced Titus to the backyard neighbors on Friday.  A neighbor's beagle puppy escaped her yard and came around to visit our yard (while the baby sat in his carseat - yipes) but we managed to catch her no problem and it was a good chance to meet some other of our neighbors I hadn't spoken to much.  Turns out they have a 4-5 yo and a 5 month old baby too.

Something remarkable from Thursday -

Asleep in the middle of the day, at the same time!  I had just enough time to snap this picture and make a cup of tea before F woke up.  Oh well.  It's a start!

Baby getting oochie again.  Ta ta.