Friday, January 05, 2007

All in a days work

My baby's nanny didn't come the entire week cause her daughter is getting married. This woman only started in November and I have heard so many stories as to why she can't come to work or whatever. When baby's are involved it's not so easy to fire and hire, it takes a while for your child to get used to someone so I will need a very good reason to fire this woman. Anyway, back to my original story, my Mr. and Mom are supposed to be helping me with her while I work, since both of them can be more flexible with their time. So yesterday, my mom was out, which left Oga in charge. Generally, it's a pain in the ass to feed her with a spoon since it's very messy and depending on her mood she might just spit everything out back at you, so I am conveniently 'not available' when it comes to this mealtime.

Being the good wife and mother I am (insert evil grin here) when it was time to feed her yesterday I went and made the food and said in the sweetest voice I could muster to Mr. to please feed her cause I was very busy with work. And infact, I made sure they did it in another room so I wouldn't hear all the drama that definitely will follow. Well it didn't work. 10 minutes later, Mr. came down baby in one hand bowl of food in the other hand...."take your baby, she doesn't want to eat her food..." and he dumped her on my lap put her food down and bounced.


That's how little madam started with her shakara oh!.....screaming, crying, jerking, stretching.....(where are those people that say I have a quiet baby at times like this?), what song did I not sing?, infact old macdonalds farm had every animal I could think of, from a ram that went baaaa (what sounds do rams make anyway?) to a meh meh goat (this is old macdonald naija style....lol). Anyway, she finished her food after about 40 painful minutes of singing and nodding and stumping my foot to show that I'm happy and I know it. And of course she sprayed me and everything in line with her mouth with her food.

Oh, I also wanted to sing that 1,2 buckle my shoe song, does anyone have the complete words to it?

15 comments:

Zaynnah Magazine said...

Lol! aww...your baby is cute!!

Anyway, 'One,Two, buckle my shoe' goes like this...

One, two, buckle my shoe
three, four, knock at the door
five, six, pick up sticks
seven, eight, lay them straight
nine, ten, a big fat hen!!

Btw, I've tagged you - hope you get round to doing it (some day)!

Enjoy your weekend.

9jamommy said...

Thanks April! Now I can add a new song to my huge collection of 3 nursery rhymes...lol. Oh, I just saw that you tagged me, I'll do that for my next post...:)

@overwhelmed naija babe...lol, not even sure why I thought of a ram, Nigeria does that to you. Thanks and Happy New Year to you too.

Anonymous said...

I must be jobless but here it goes:

1, 2 buckle my shoe
3,4 shut the door
5,6 pick up sticks
7,8 lay them straight
9, 10 a big fat hen (or come on every body let's sing it again)

I have a little girl too. SAo I empathise(LOL)

Toksboy said...

You and Almost desperate housewife keep me very amused (and alarmed) with your blog - read about her being propositioned by some idiot whilst she was at the Eko hotel pool WITH HER KIDS and to make it worse the idiot actually had his underage "girlfriend" in tow. These new generation Naija girls are something else oh. To have the audacity to leave her number in the car - when you were in the car? Breathtaking. You must be very understanding. I suspect that Iyawo would have paid her a little visit by now. Knock knock. Who's dead?

9jamommy said...

Thanks anonymous, please send more this way!

Lol Toks-boy....if you go like that in Nigeria you'll turn into a serial killer. These girls really are something though.

Bella Naija said...

Awww your baby is sooo cute!

9jamommy said...

Thanks Bella!

♥♫♪nyemoni♫♪♥ said...

Jeez, can I have the rest of that pix? I would looooove to see her face! Nice pix anyhow! Mwah to the cutie!

Unknown said...

I can imagine the trauma you guys go through during feeding time. But she looks so good in the pic. She fine pass her mama abi?

Fast Forward two more years and you guys will be arguing about eating fruits and vegetables. (smile)

Omodudu said...

wHAT A BURIFULL BABY. THAT HAIR STYLE CUT WIRE.

Anonymous said...

Forget about Madox. My niece is where its at!

9jamommy said...

Thanks nyemoni :)...maybe maybe not sure about that yet.

calabar gal...thank God I don't have to do it everyday, I swear I'll be pureeing everything in her bottle till she can talk ..lol. Fine pass her mama ke?...lol

omodudu...thanks oh! that's our signature hairstyle, at least till it gets too hard to comb

anonymous...lol....thanks sis, now all we need are the punk rock clothes :)

uknaija said...

This is where I join the jobless crew...
and finish off the one two rhyme

Eleven Twelve Dig and delve, thirteen fourteen, maids in the kitchen,fifteen sixteen maids a'courtin', seventeen eighteen maids a'weepin', nineteen twenty...my plate's empty!

Unknown said...

Just threaten her with GBH (grievous bodily harm). It worked for me...

I secretly believe all children want to kill us, their mothers. Abeg I didnt kill my own mother, jare!

Anonymous said...

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your baby is beeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaautiful!!!!!

That hair!!!!! Lol!!!

Btw, yeah this is the same anonymous that is desperately trying to catch up on your blog 2 years later- lol! Can't believe I never came across it before.

Anyway, I guess it means I don't have long to wait in between posts.

Ok, getting back to it...