Parenting

There are so many parenting books, parenting videos, websites etc, but ultimately it comes down to how you want to parent your kid. Co-sleep or family bed or separate rooms, CIO or other methods, stop bottle at 1 or 2 or 3, potty train when to when, etc etc. More choices than anything else when it comes to parenting.

Yesterday was talking to my manager and he is expecting his first baby - and I liked what he told me, we are ready to be parents and I dont think any book can prepare us for that. It really sounds true. Sometimes I look around and compare my son, what he's wearing, how much he knows, what he is good at , what his embarassing behaviors are, and I feel I need to stop. I mean he is not even two years old. This lil guy will blossom into his own person and I should just stop comparing, listening, and let him be a child and I should be there for him, try to spend good quality time with him and then just hope he turns out ok.

I am tired of comparing home size, baby clothes, baby goodies, material crap - so from now on I am going to be what I believe I am the best parent I think I can be and just let things take their stride.

Yeah.. lets see how long that lasts ( I just heard about a 2.5 yr old who knows all the presidents names ;))

Random musings

• Bullet points ahhh - I am a Project manager at heart and love bullet points. Hence a post in bullet point format
• Hand,Foot and what now - Ah, I go to pick A from his daycare around 4 PM at the start of the Memorial Day weekend. I am greeted with a sign saying there are now 5 kids with Hand,Foot and Mouth disease in his daycare and one right in his class. Somehow, something kicks in and I know I am in for a longggggg weekend. You betcha, we get home, he's thrown up all over me and the couch, and goes to sleep after a bath and some milk. Wakes up next morning all fussy with tiny blisters on his hands and 2 on his tongue. Nurse confirms diagnoses on the phone and cheerfully adds it will get worse before it gets better. Nice! Anyways after a long week of working from home and major juggling between me and my husband, he finally returned to school this past Monday. Kudos to my husband for watching him when I absolutely had to be in the office this past Friday. Kudos to the very understanding Moms who are my bosses on the client side as well.
• Get in there and get your hands dirty - I also spent a little of the Memorial day weekend doing gardening, yes wearing gloves and with hubby nearby to remove any earthworms and other creepies but now have some lovely flowers in containers as well as a mint and tomato plant growing outside the home
• Mango madness - Since we were mostly going to be trapped at home the long weekend, we bought a lot of food so that we could grill/BBQ and also bought a whole dozen of mangoes. Since it suddenly grew warm and we couldnt keep up with the mangoes as they got ripe, I mentioned the mango problem to a co-worker. She said she knew an easy recipe for a Mango Pie, and I tried it the past weekend and will make another one tonight. Its easy- no baking involved and with whipping cream, mangoes, graham cracker pie crust and some sugar, can you really go wrong. Yummy !
• Layoffs - So my hubby finally graduated B-school and had managed a position with one of the finance/ratings companies on Wall Street. He has been looking forward towards the change and it sort of was very good coz it meant using his B-school skills and getting out of IT. However he found out that said company had a few layoffs in May ( thanks mortgage crisis), and he has not heard back from HR what it does to his offer. We are crossing our fingers now but hubs is in a mood of doom and gloom. Lets see what happens.
• Sentences - Baby A, turned 23 months old this week so is not really a baby ( though he will always be my baby awww) - yesterday made me proud by singing the whole ABC song, Twinkle Twinkle and Happy Bday flawlessly. He also recognizes all colors now and our favorite game nowadays is to identify new colors. Also A loves You tube but wants to hear a song that catches his fancy over and over again. For now its The Monkey Dance by the Wiggles and an Indian song called 'Ichak Dana Bichak Dana' . Its all cute initially to see his interest in You tube, but I am sure it will get tiring soon !

Alright everyone, signing off now