We hosted a parenting meeting at our house today (I forget what the program is called). We meet at a different place each Wednesday and discuss early parenting issues. This was the third meeting; I have not found the discussions too illuminating yet, but it is nice to talk to other parents in general. I try to avoid talking parent stuff with non-parents, or perhaps more accurately I don’t talk about Lonan Kai excessively to other people cause they really may not be that interested and I do try to do other things other than be a parent.
Of course, I have missed whole swaths of conversation while trying to calm LK during the meetings. Since they are in the evenings, it is prime fussiness time.
Today I calmed him down with a repeating medley of Brokedown Palace and Three Little Birds sung by me. It works wonders.
Otherwise today time was spent cleaning the house and cooking some stuff for the meeting. I did some gardening and finally got our tomatoes and cucumbers in. I did not make it to the farmer’s market. I was going to do some consulting work today, but I have not gotten all the info yet from the client (a source code dump).
Now LK is sleeping but is very twitchy. Amanda is sleeping downstairs case she needs to sleep and LK does not encourage sleep (even his own!). I am writing this entry in the hallway outside our bedroom so as not to disturb LK while still keeping an eye/ear on him.