Some Thoughts

This week, I'm going to hold the fort alone with Rhea, with the nanny starting next week, and mom missing from action. Several thoughts that I've gathered in this time (Rhea doesn't give me too much time for introspection, but her feeding sessions give me lots of time to make notes on my iPhone).

• It's not necessary (or possible) to entertain/stimulate a baby whenever she's awake. In that sense, I feel more like being best friends with her than acquaintances. With the latter, one tends to fill up silence with small talk -but with friends and family, you don't need to do that.
  
  
• She really enjoys watching me do the household chores - I carry her in a car seat in the kitchen as she watches me do the dishes/have lunch or clean up.
  
  
• Even after a good two months, it fascinates me that for so many months she was an abstraction; she was inside me, and now she is breathing and soaking in life outside the womb.
  
  
• I understand her instinct to suck, but I still don't get why she scratches her face, eyes and pulls her hair when she's tired.
  
  
• I'm very curious about her dreams and her thoughts, especially when she smiles or cries in her sleep is she dreaming about her jungle gym or Thai curry flavored milk or her favorite nursery rhyme or her boppy pillow and binky?
  
  
• Babies are definitely smarter than we think they are - even at a tender age of 10 weeks. Rhea knows when I'm around and gets up from her nap the minute I leave the room. This happened several times today; I finally gave up and decided to just lie next to her and take a nap myself.