Zelma "sleeps" from Noon until 2 PM.
When Zelma doesn't sleep, she talks to her dolls. She scolds them just like Mommy scolds her, only much more harshly, I believe... {"No, Zelma, No!" I heard her say one day, the only time I've heard her use her own name.} She throws the dolls out of the crib when they displease her. She bangs on the walls and tries to move the crib. Or she calls, "Mama! Mama? Hello!"
Sometimes, she throws all her dolls out of the crib, and having nothing better to do, goes to sleep for a while.
The way I know all of this is because we have this baby monitor with a camera. We can see her on a little Zelma screen. This thing has night vision, which is good for seeing her in the dark, but also a bit freaky, because it makes her eyes glow and generally makes her look like a freakin' zombie. The zombie baby awakens. The zombie baby stands up, suddenly, and shakes the bars of the crib. The zombie baby lays back down and sucks on her hand, blinking her zombie eyes, and then falls back to sleep. Eyes closed, the zombie baby is now a sweet little angel.
Why would you label this post boring when it had sweet, sweet zombie baby action? Really! I am going to have nightmares now.
ReplyDeleteZombie or not I enjoyed that. :) Almost anything about Zelma makes me smile...and for some reason I am amused that she scolds her dolls.
ReplyDeleteThis is brilliant.
ReplyDeleteYou can watch your Zombie child's ego formation.
"Sometimes, she throws all her dolls out of the crib, and having nothing better to do, goes to sleep for a while."
ReplyDeleteYou used to do that too.