Carrie, Nora, me and Mrs. Belt
Read part 1. I decided that I could only work on the project if Garrett was watching Nora –just in time for Garrett to leave for six weeks for a work-up.
He gave me one night to work alone and my sewing machine did a nice little number of adding extra thread on the underside of the blanket. I didn’t realize it until I had gone all of the way around the baby blanket. Now I not only had lots of baby blankets to finish; I also had one baby blanket that needed to be torn …
Mommy knows best. Photo taken by Carrie Belt
Nora wasn’t acting like herself this week. She wasn’t sleeping well, was fussier than usual, wanted to be held more than usual and was eating less. I could tell by touching her forehead that she had a slight temperature but attributed that to the fact that her top two teeth were coming in. The other strange symptom she had was that her nose was alternating between oozing clear mucus and green mucus. It never stayed green for too long so I thought maybe it was allergies.
After three days of these symptoms I decided to make a doctor’s appointment. I …
My baby is getting bigger! Photo taken by Carrie Belt
Read Part 1, then continue reading to take a peek at how I try to avoid using the word “No” in my daily interactions with Nora:
When Nora is playing with the VCR and trying to push buttons instead of screaming, “NO!” I say, “Not for Nora.” I change the sentence structure around so instead of risking having her internalize the “no” to mean she’s a bad child the sentence structure puts the negative on the object or the choice. The object is just not for her. I then …
