ON WORK: it appears i will not be taking the gig in new orleans. childcare options are slim plus my mom seemed to really feel against it, look who is piping in! nonetheless it does not feel right anymore and i have no one to come with me as nanny nor do i have anywhere to leave her. as if i really wanted to leave her ANYWAY!

i picked up a few days for next week on a commercial. i still have the gig lined up for mid-March which has me booked for about twenty weeks and i received a voicemail message yesterday from a new potential client looking to meet with me about work. more to tell on that soon. in spite of what my neurotic and anxious senses tell me, i am going to keep my head up and stay positive. things are looking bright although a bit chaotic at times. work is lined up and the calls continue to come in. i should not complain, i could have nothing going on.

ON S.L.:
she is totally walking! last night she walked so much among us all. from me to you, to the turtle pond, back to me, to the hight chair and the desk, to you, to him…and so on. she laughs the whole time and holds her arms straight out in front of her. it is precious. she loves it. we keep catching her walking on her own from here to there without anyone prompting her. precious precious. her papi takes full credit for teaching her before we came out here.

she really seems to have adjusted a lot since we got here. she stopped clinging so much, began sleeping and eating better…and just as our schedule and routine was smooth as butter, we have recently begun to have minor eating and napping issues. nothing that compares to our first week here but something is up. perhaps we are shifting times or something?
the strangeness could be teething. yep – more are pushing through, we now have four on top and two on the bottom!

ON THE APARTMENT:
for those that haven’t heard my whining: we are in a studio apartment, yes that means one big room, no bedroom, although it does have a bathroom with a door. this means that when my precious is sleeping we cannot do anything that makes noise. during a nap, it is not so bad as it is only for a couple of hours and there are things can be done quietly during the day. BUT. when she is in for the night, on time, at around eight – i cannot watch a DVD for she sleeps right next to the television; there is no lamp so i do not read in order to keep the lights off; sometimes my sister and i hang out in the bathroom chit-chatting. also note that i get no cell phone reception in here. the home phone is not a cordless so you have to stand in one spot when using it (but not while baby sleeps, of course). there is no internet. there is no cable…..CNN…..Bravo…..

ON ME: hanging in there. hanging tough. smiling does not hurt.