Last week was quite challenging.
Sophie caught a bug early in the week and was vomiting for a whole day. She woke up at 4.30am and started throwing up. Oh my! I’ve never experienced so much puking from Sophie before! It went on and off thru the day. It cleared by evening and she was pretty much ok by then.
I stayed home with her for two days just to make sure that the bug was gone before she went back to school. The second day James had a brilliant idea and we used the baby monitor on the reverse so that I could hear the lectures at home, LIVE! Super cool. Over this period of time, I’ve grown to appreciate how creative James can be! He’s set up a wireless network, created some shelves using cardboards, webcam Sophie sleeping in the room before we managed to borrow a baby monitor etc. He just built her a cafe with cardboard boxes and he’s in the midst of building a house for her. Hee.
We have been finding it very challenging with Sophie. She hasn’t been eating, sleeping or even settling well at daycare. Very trying. I think the change in structure and environment is taking a toll on her.
Most of the time she is still only eating peanut butter sandwich, fruits, milk, yogurt, cheese and eggs. She hardly touched her main meals! But this week seems better. She’s been eating more of her food now. Woo hoo!
Her sleep patterns have also been strange. She keeps waking up in the night and calling for us or sometimes crying. I’m not sure if they were nightmares. Last week we were attending to her through the night almost 3-4 times a night. Déjà vu of the early days! I think it’s getting better after much prayer. Apparently some of the other kids have been waking up with nightmares too so we suspect it’s a spiritual attack.
The thing that still affects me a lot is that she cries when we leave her at the daycare. After the two days at home with me, we had to resettle her again at daycare. It’s so tough. The thing about her is that she doesn’t cry for long and she’ll stop after we leave but just the thought of leaving her crying tears me apart. Argh. I’m not very good at this. But we’re praying that it’ll get better.
I think because of all these changes, she’s also been acting up a lot with us. She’s trying all sort of ways to push the boundaries with us. Some days it can get really distracting and discouraging.
But this week, everything is getting much better and we just need to hang on and trust God that this will pass.
February 6th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
That was really a stroke of genius, using the baby monitor to listen to lectures!!! And the stuff James is doing with boxes sounds so cool. You know, I’ve always wanted to build a kitchen for the kids but haven’t the creativity or technical ability! Sorry to hear though that Soph was sick and that she’s not settling so well in school. You know, Ally used to cry everyday when we dropped her off in childcare. Part of it is normal, as in a lot of kids do that, but partly it was also because she was there for a very long time, like 6 hours, and that’s a lot to ask of a kid. She was much better when I quit and she went St James, where school’s only 3 hours. Also, for some reason being on the school bus helps, somehow less traumatic for her than being dropped off in the classroom. Anyway, will keep you guys in prayer. Hang in there - this is the initial adjustment phase and you just gotta tell yourselves that things will eventually get better.
February 11th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Hee…ya! you shd try, not that tough really. simple one lah. even a blanket over two chairs is so fun for them. Things are getting much better with Sophie. It was really an adjusting period. She’s doing well at daycare, food n w people n sleep too. Thank God.
Thanks for praying. Miss you girls lah.