Storm Clouds

Oh man do I hate storm cloud weeks. We've hit our latest cognitive leap. Here I was thinking 'hey this one hasn't been so bad' then boom I hear thunder over head and lone and behold the storm cloud week begins. My son is clingy (only mommy will do - he actaully clings to my trousers sometimes), easily frustrated, cries more easily and more than usual and, the worst one, for this leap is that he seems to have lost his entire day sleep routine. He was having a 2hr sleep in the morning and then two 45min sleeps after that. Now he can't seem to sleep for more than an hour, even though he's tired and cranky when he wakes up, and we are down to 2 sleeps now. He just refuses to have the late afternoon sleep. This means that he's been awake since around 1 and by the time we hit supper time between 5 and 6 he is exhausted. It takes more patience than a saint and more ingenuity than a great inventor to get his dinner inside him - in fact the other day I had to give up and he just ate a rice cake for dinner (a very balanced meal). I can't wait till the cloud passes and we are back to normal again.

I'm very excited to see the new things his brain has learnt during this leap into the world of categories. Since Friday he's learnt to clap his hands and wave - I'm always amazed at how quickly these things happen.