Last Night

Little Baby tested my patience. I had to keep telling myself to keep cool.

She refused to eat the mashed pumpkin and sweet potato mix I prepared for her. She gobbled up the same combination over the last weekend and seemed to love it alot. But last night she just refused to swallow it.

She would open her mouth when offered the food. She would take the food into her mouth. And then she would immediately stick her tongue out and push out the food or just let the food drop out. And at the same time she would stick her fingers into her mouth as well and rub bits of everything all over her face.

It was a mess. Didn't help that she's got alot of hair and I was trying hard to keep her from touching her hair and getting mashed food in that mane of hers.

Oh well...I gave up and prepared brown rice cereal for her which she gobbled up pretty quickly. It was still messy though because she kept sticking her fingers into her mouth again. Imagine a mouth full of gooey sticky cereal and saliva and tubby fingers.

She was sleepy after that but refused to sleep and spent the next hour-plus rolling around in her cot alternating between happy squeals and excited gurgles and frustrated cries and fussy requests to be carried. And I couldn't leave her alone in her room. If I did, she would start crying within 2 minutes. So it's here I guess, the separation anxiety that I read about in parenting articles.

Had a bad backache after last night's episode. Thankfully it went away after some sleep.