While travelling

On the tour bus in Barcelona

Raghav is so excited when we visit another city. It is very difficult to get him to sleep in the hotel room, even when they provide him with a baby cot. Since the cot is also new to him, he first spends an awful lot of time exploring it. And even after he's done with that, he keeps standing till we're around. He might get really sleepy and not be able to stand any more holding his cot railings, but he still tries, resting for a bit to sometimes lie down and suck his thumb, but then climbing up again to see what the action is. I have had to cover his cot with cloth from the top so that he won't be able to see anything going on in the room that might interest him, but he can hear - so it never helps.

But while we're roaming a new city, he sleeps in his pram, either reclined or in the sitting position when he's really tired. We have to also cover the pram to prevent him seeing anything. Because as long as he can look, he will look and not fall asleep. Earlier we used to just put a cloth to cover his pram from the front and then put it in place with pegs. But he's recently started playing peek-a-boo with the cloth (you give him any damn cloth and he plays peek-a-boo with it), so you have to secure it from the bottom, so that he can't lift and start playing. But that too he has figured out how to foil. He peeks from the sides, or just pulls really hard at the cloth and the pegs then stand no chance. When we went to Barcelona recently he also started really resisting getting into the pram when he didn't want to. He would just stiffen his body and you couldn't get him to bend even a tiny bit in order to get into the pram.

Forced to sleep in the main city square. Do you blame
me for creating a fuss? 

He throws a similar tantrum sometimes when he doesn't want to sleep. He stiffens his whole body and throws his legs straight with great force and a big shout.


He tries every food that we do, scolding us if there's a delay and if he thinks we're not sharing enough with him.

But at the end of the day he gets really tired with all the touristing, and sometimes has a cry it out before he can fall asleep in his cot.