It is amazing how quickly babies change. This weekend we entered one of my favorite stages with Jillian. She has started being awake and not screaming for periods lasting more than 30 seconds or so. Before it was actually pretty accurate to say she was either screaming or sleeping with nothing in between. It is so much fun to spend time with her when she is awake, looking around, making little cooing sounds and smiling. She is so much fun right now.
That isn’t to say that the screaming is all gone. She hates, hates, hates the car. Hates the car with a passion. With Wesley we drove around in the middle of the night just to get him to sleep even a little bit. Jillian screams constantly. We haven’t gone on any long drives, but I can attest she will not fall asleep or scream herself out while driving stop and go in traffic on I35 for forty minutes. The one major bonus of her screaming? It drives Wesley crazy. You can see the tension on his face. He can’t handle it and ends up screaming too. So now we have two kids screaming in misery in the back seat. It has really sucked the fun out of driving.
Wow! I’ve written used some variation of the word “scream” 8 times in this post, well 9 times counting that last one.
I’m screaming , well my inner child is screaming
my Id yelling, my Ego shouting