Eva ignoring Mummy :(

So just as a I start getting used to my high maintenance little Emilia and super calm little Eva, the roles reverse and I am left playing catch up.  Emilia has transformed into a calm baby, who you can cuddle, who sleeps during the day without any fussing and eats like a horse! She seems to be so content.  That is the good news and makes me happier than words can do justice.

Eva however, has entered into a new phase, presumably one she has to go through, but one that has left me googling "babies ignoring Mummy!"  (I am chuckling to myself as I write this, just as Mandy found my reaction to this highly amusing yesterday).  For long periods of time yesterday she refused to look at me, I am sure in the end my pathetic desperation left her pondering over who her mother had become, but I just couldn't accept that Eva was ignoring Mummy.  She is my little Eva, who always smiles at me.

I discovered that lots of other Mums have been through this.  I particularly liked the one reasoning where the baby sees the mum as an extension of themselves and therefore doesn't need to give them any attention.  I suppose it is like when I am with Jens;  I don't need to make any kind of effort, I can just be.  Of course nobody really knows but that one decription made me feel better.

I just got Eva out of bed and was greeted by a super happy, wriggly baby who made eye contact with me :) 

So our family dynamics have changed.  Both babies are healthy and for the most part happy and so I am not complaining about anything.  It's just this ever changing role of being a mother is easily the most challenging, interesting and stimulating thing I have ever done.

Mandy the little star cleaned our new bathroom yesterday (tiles and everything), then some of the pipes fell of the wall (not Mandy's fault).  Our builders had used a new "super glue" that should hold 50kg that they won't be using again, then the electrics stopped working in the girls room and I felt super stressed.  But after using my new bath I felt a lot better. Our new bathroom is lovely and the pipes and electrics are being fixed today.

Grandma and Grandad Brown are arriving in 3 hours and Jens is running his first half marathon this afternoon.  So me, the twins and the Grandparents are heading over to Farfar and Farmor Lindqvist to watch him.  The place in the half marathon was Jens' birthday present from me, 2 weeks before the twins were born.  But against all odds he has managed to get some training done, unfortunately nowhere near as much as he would have liked.  However it goes today and I know he will be able to finish, I am so proud of him.