On the Road Again

Wow, three days in a row.  Bring on the snow...

Punky and I are headed home this weekend, possibly tonight, but most likely we'll wait until tomorrow morning.  I didn't really get anything packed last night, and I am tired, so waiting till morning is the better idea.

I always try to make the trip when it coincides with Punky's naptime.  It's over a two hour ride and much more pleasant with a sleeping baby than a screaming her head off cause she's stuck in one spot baby.  Now that she's so mobile, sitting still is not on her list of favorite things. 

Neither is changing clothes.  It's becoming a struggle.  She will normally amuse herself through a diaper change, but try and get her clothes off/on and it's a different story.  That just started recently and I have no clue why.  Maybe it's related to the whole "sitting still" thing.  At any rate, I hope it's a phase that passes quickly.

Not much excitement planned for the weekend, just relaxing and a big family picnic on Sunday.  And, so I've been instructed, Punky needs to spend some quality time alone with her Aunt P.  She has yet to be hugged and she's pissed about it. 

I guess I can understand the way she feels.  When my nephew was born, and they lived 3,000 miles away, I was sad because I thought he would grow up not knowing me.  When he was ten months old, they moved back home, and I saw him almost daily for the next two years...until I moved up here, a few hours away. 

My kid is stingy with her huggers anyhow.  She's only eight months old.  Mama gets a few a day, along with an open-mouth slobberly kiss or two.  Daddy may get one a day; some days yes, some days no.  And Grammy has been the only other lucky one to receive a Punky hug thus far, and it was actually three in a row. 

Anyway, I didn't know my nephew when he was Punky's age, and we are very close.  Don't take it personally, Aunt P.  She is little and doesn't see you often.  That will change as she gets older.  She'll remember you, and love you, and you'll be her favorite aunt, just wait and see...

As long as you don't make her pick gum out of a bush...