Well, here's our girl, ten weeks old and already spent 3 days on set, totaling almost 40 hours - and she was as good as gold. I don't know that you could expect more from such a small little girl, she really was a superstar. The BSG crew was great with us and allowed breaks, usually during set-ups, for me to go back and feed her so she actually never had to take a bottle. Ez did try once but she wouldn't take it but I arrived within minutes so it was still okay and we are going to try cup feeding next time. I know that I have fought so hard to keep a bottle out of her mouth, but it will be hard for me if she never takes one, so now we have to find the balance since my milk supply and nursing are well established.
As for the whole work experience, it definitely was better than I worried it would be and easier than I expected. My call times were reasonable and she was with her dad on the big days so really the only person who was freaking out was me - I could feel myself getting frantic sometimes and I would be fidgeting like a five year old boy after a Red Bull and I would run back to the trailer only to find her asleep in her dad's arms. I couldn't help but feel guilty though, making this little girl be on such a strange schedule, and making her essentially be at work for so long too, not to mention daddy, who was stuck on a trailer all day... I guess I can let guilt go for the most part though - it helped our family and we all came through very well. I felt torn to be on set again, at work - so distracted as I was. I wondered if I would be able to be present as an actress, let along make any character choices (or know my lines, for that matter) but, like riding a bike, it all comes back to you and I think I rose to occasion. I think I can even handle it if (when) they call back for more. I think I can, I think I can...
As for Nahanni (or Baby 'hanni, as Talulla calls her) she is growing and changing daily. Her slate blue eyes are changing quickly, filling with specks of brown and I don't think it will be long before they change completely - I hope they'll be dark brown and lovely like her cousin Brody's are. She has finally achieved her goal of doing the 'cluck' noise we've been practising (although she refuses to do it for the camera) and she can hold her head really well - we do our morning exercises and when I pull her by her arms she can sit and hold her head relatively still and high - which seems to delight her, and certainly delights me. Her eyes grow wide and she looks at me as if to say 'Wow! I really did it!' and I love to watch her discover herself. Being a mom is really the most wonderful job I've ever had and I am feeling really lucky and blessed. Ez and I are looking to the future and planning to take this little girl to the ends of the earth, since she's already sent us to the moon (corny, but true...)
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