Laelia has a new sitter! Her name is Farhia! I took my friend, Kiersten’s, advice and started emailing teachers/professors in the San Diego Community College District who were actively teaching a special needs class as part of a child development program. I asked them to pass out my ad for a sitter to any interested students. Farhia happened to be in such a class and got my ad. Laelia has ”great-reference-letter-for-future-nursing-program-students” written all over  her. We’re thrilled to have Farhia and she is great with Lali!

I started back to work full time on February 24th, which was Farhia’s first day. I get up at 4:30am now so I can be home when Laelia is waking up from her nap. Before this I worked five hours a day and got home in time to put Laelia down for her nap. So instead of getting home before her nap and then watching her sleep, I get home after her nap when she’s waking up. So really no mommy-baby time is lost with the new schedule… only mommy-sleep time.  Needless to say it’s kinda crazy right now. I get a little kooky after about 8pm (as my church small group and book club can attest).  And for the first few days of my new schedule it felt like my head was mush. The other day I was starring at this spot on the carpet for I don’t know how long. All I know is that when I placed my baby on the couch my purse was behind her up high, and when I looked up from my spot on the carpet she had it in her lap and had emptied the whole thing.

Another benefit of having Farhia is that Laelia is learning Somali (or Somalian?), which is a step up from the language she speaks now–lion. (Yeah you heard me right–lion. Not English. Lion. )

In the time it took to write this blog, my darling daughter has smashed an entire banana into the carpet. Oh joy. When’s bedtime?

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