Transition

How do you be grumpy at a face like this?

 Mommyhood has changed me so much. I used to need 8 hours of deep sleep, now i can live on 4 hours of interrupted sleep and still be happy and cheery for my baby. Janna pre mommyhood on 4 hours of interrupted sleep would have been a monster who eats children for breakfast.

Yesterday, i found myself buying pegaga leaves. I used to HATE pegaga leaves. But last night i made a pegaga salad with ginger flower (bunga kantan) and onions and lime and i loved loved loved it. I had just that and salted egg with rice for dinner and i was a happy girl. I had that dish once when my mom in law made it for me while in confinement. I turned up my nose when she mentioned pegaga. And yesterday I craved for it.

Chubby wubby Nuha Alanna

Previously I couldnt sleep if im pushed up too close to someone. I need my personal space. Like i cannot stand it if someone breathes in my face. Suffocating ok. I love to cuddle just not when I want to sleep. But Nuha LOVES to smush her chubby body up against mine. Like she will be next to me at 10pm, come 12am- hello Nuha under mama's ketiak. I dont even know how she got there. But i love it all the same.

I used to be grossed out at the sight of poo and boogers. Now i cheer when Nuha does a poopee and dont bat an eyelid at that glob of poo that landed on my arm. And boogers, well.. Janna + baby cotton bud makes one helluva booger buster.

Cruising down the Mekong

Oh and we took Nuha on her 1st airplane ride 2 weeks back. We went to Phnom Penh and as much as I love Nuha and travelling- I dont think they bode well togather. At least not yet. I was a little apprehensive about travelling with her so early and I was right. The plane ride was fine except for her being a little cranky for having to wake up so early. She was okay in the begining, checking out the new surroundings till the novelty wore off and she wanted to move around during landing. I didnt want to mess up her nap pattern so we worked out a jalan jalan time around her nap time which left us with little time to do much. Despite us going back to the hotel twice a day for her naps, she slept thru most of our trip anyway. Which was great. But she didnt sleep well at night. Not sure if this was due to her being in a new enviroment or things that go bump in the night- I want to believe the former because I'm a scardy cat. She would wake up with a start and will just scream her lungs out. She'd cry harder if hubs held her so there I was in a hotel of a foreign country trying to soothe my hysterical baby- while hubs slept soundly. It took all the strenght I had in me not to smack him. Then when we came home he was telling everyone what a joy it was travelling with Nuha- again I wanted to smack him.

Despite all that I miss him terribly. He's in Singapore for a workshop. He'll be home soon tho and we cant wait!!