Daily Archives: November 21, 2010

Out and About

Traveling +1 is not just a matter of arithmetic.  It becomes a logistics exercise.  To take the buggy (and where can you park it) or go with the sling (and how do you eat while wearing an infant on your chest) become part of the equation.

Luckily Kai was extremely cooperative today.  Chika had deposited him into the sling (yes, he is there hiding under Chika’s custom convertible Japanese outerwear) and all through the journey there, the 1 1/2 hour brunch, and the journey home he either slept or cuddled awake with mom.

Do we pursue onwards with new found courage, or is it just a unstable condition waiting to explode?

Sleep

The concept of sleep revolving around when the sun comes up or goes down had already passed even before Kai (Chika and I both lived in Finland where days can be dusk in the winter and nights could be neverending dawn in the summer).  But the new sleeping schedule is something which can’t be easily reckoned with, especially as it suddenly switches on after birth.  Kai has been pretty good.  He does 4 hour stretches sometimes, and sometimes will head back to sleep after a meal and a change.  However, sometimes he just feels like being a nightowl, and wants to hang around with mommy and daddy.  Those are the hard ones.