At least the REAL Halloween is Tommorow
It starts so young…I’m not sure how concious she is that she’s doing this…but Madeline’s actions appear to be ever so slightly manipulating us…or at least pushing and prodding us to let her get her way!
Things didn’t go quite a smoothly as we had hoped with Tony’s costume for the Rock costume party, so we didn’t even get to leave the house until after 8pm. Madeline seemed a little crabby before we left, and barely cheered up when we arrived at the church building. She acted hungry after we had been there a few minutes, but wouldn’t eat. After walking around with a very sad little ducky, I tried again to get her to eat and fall asleep in a portable crib in the church nursery.
You should have seen the look on her face! It was as totally sad as she could manage. She rarely extremely happy about going to sleep, but this was different. Her face was saying, “Why are you laying me down in this strange place???” I tried to let her cry herself to sleep as usual, but the screaming just got louder and instead of being curled up in her usual, relaxed position for falling asleep, she still was stiff with her head in the air. It was clear she wasn’t going to fall asleep there any time soon. I picked her up, and nearly panicked — she had little red splotches on her face around her eyes…something I had never seen before. Time to leave!
Exhausted, we left the party after having been there slightly over an hour. Arriving home, her face was back to normal and she was smiling and laughing in the living room. She ate a little more and fell asleep with only a few minutes of normal crying. Amazing. She did NOT want to be at the church building tonight and communicated that enough that we acted. Pretty good for a little girl who can’t even talk yet.
Tony went back to the party and I’m trying to relax and unwind after that tiring hour at the party. I’m just glad the real Halloween is tommorow…so we can put Madeline back in her costume and take cute pictures….That’s the best part of putting a baby in a costume anyway. Maybe I’ll think of somewhere interesting to take her all dressed up.
I’ll make Tony put his picture back on for pictures too, and post them soon — He was a penny! One of the most novel costumes I’ve ever seen!