Absence does not make the heart grow fonder
T has been gone for 12 days and Tin misses her tremendously. He heard her voice on the phone early this morning as I was trying frantically to get her up on Skype video and feed him his bottle with the other hand but alas we couldn’t connect. He then started crying and flailing around and basically was inconsolable. I tried to hold him, bounce him on my knee, and finally took him a stronghold hug to the bed and massaged him till he calmed down.
Since she’s been gone he has gone from not noticing for the first stretch, to becoming visibly depressed when he hears her voice and turning super clingy with both Margarete and I, to now just out and out mad.
Seems like the same phases work with a one year old too – Phase 1, nada, Phase 2, missing, Phase 3, anger.