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A couple's outing
2021-May-26, Wednesday 23:35
I'm more well-rested and cuddled because we managed to get Laila to sleep in her bassinet! When I came in at 3:15 a.m. or so, I suggested that we wrap her up in her sleeping sack and see if she'd tolerate sleeping apart from us. ![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee told me that she'd been thinking the same thing, so we put her in the sleeping sack and Laila quietly accepted being swaddled up and then laid down to sleep. She muttered a few times but never cried, and sashagee and I got to sleep in the same bed, without her nest of pregnancy pillows! 
We tried it again tonight and she cried, andsashagee has a headache so Laila is asleep on my lap. Parenting is like that.
( Pre-made foods )
I've been slowly plinking away at Final Fantasy VIII over time, but it's hard going. The Japanese is a lot more complicated than it was in Final Fantasy VI, so it takes me longer to get through a conversation, and every once in a while I'll hit a point where I'm faced with a giant brick of text and my brain melts. That happened when I played through the Timber Owls mission, where I had to decipher the instructions given to go on the presidential car heist, and most recently it happened when I was in the Shumi village and I was slammed with a full-screen dialogue box about how amazing mumbas are. It was like 2:30 a.m. when I hit that and Laila was asleep on my lap, so I read the whole thing, then immediately thought "that's enough," went to the save point, and just read RPG blogs for thirty minutes until Laila woke up.
Speaking of Laila sleeping on my lap, I'm having real trouble as I write this. I've never been diagnosed with anything but I have restless legs, and while fortunately they usually don't keep me from sleeping (though I do very occasionally have to get out of bed and tired my legs out), the symptoms get worse when I'm sleepy. Early in the day I can have her sleep on me without any problems, but as the day goes on it gets harder and harder. Sometimes I even have to pick her up and walk around because it's the only way I can prevent myself from having to clench or twitch my legs so much that I'd wake her up, which of course has its own danger of possibly waking her up. I'm not sure what the solution is yet, other than the obvious one of getting her to sleep in her bassinet more. It'll take some doing.
Another post where my awake in the night icon might make sense. I feel like I'll be make more and more of those.
sashagee told me that she'd been thinking the same thing, so we put her in the sleeping sack and Laila quietly accepted being swaddled up and then laid down to sleep. She muttered a few times but never cried, and sashagee and I got to sleep in the same bed, without her nest of pregnancy pillows! We tried it again tonight and she cried, and
sashagee has a headache so Laila is asleep on my lap. Parenting is like that. ( Pre-made foods )
I've been slowly plinking away at Final Fantasy VIII over time, but it's hard going. The Japanese is a lot more complicated than it was in Final Fantasy VI, so it takes me longer to get through a conversation, and every once in a while I'll hit a point where I'm faced with a giant brick of text and my brain melts. That happened when I played through the Timber Owls mission, where I had to decipher the instructions given to go on the presidential car heist, and most recently it happened when I was in the Shumi village and I was slammed with a full-screen dialogue box about how amazing mumbas are. It was like 2:30 a.m. when I hit that and Laila was asleep on my lap, so I read the whole thing, then immediately thought "that's enough," went to the save point, and just read RPG blogs for thirty minutes until Laila woke up.
Speaking of Laila sleeping on my lap, I'm having real trouble as I write this. I've never been diagnosed with anything but I have restless legs, and while fortunately they usually don't keep me from sleeping (though I do very occasionally have to get out of bed and tired my legs out), the symptoms get worse when I'm sleepy. Early in the day I can have her sleep on me without any problems, but as the day goes on it gets harder and harder. Sometimes I even have to pick her up and walk around because it's the only way I can prevent myself from having to clench or twitch my legs so much that I'd wake her up, which of course has its own danger of possibly waking her up. I'm not sure what the solution is yet, other than the obvious one of getting her to sleep in her bassinet more. It'll take some doing.
Another post where my awake in the night icon might make sense. I feel like I'll be make more and more of those.
