Noo Yeery

I have to say that keeping up with the writing while at home is difficult… if I want to spend time with the family and get a little sleep, I don’t really have time to write; if I write, then one of the other activities suffer.

Bipa is still here, though he’s only around for an hour a day. He & LD spent one afternoon watching WALL*E together, but he mostly shows up in the mid afternoon to talk & maybe play a game or play in the snow, then he’s off again, doing more work.

I’ve had a lot of time with the fam this week, though New Year was uneventful, I don’t remember much of the rest; it’s been a real whirlwind. Trudging to and from the stores, looking for things we need to reorganize our house… reorganizing our house… putting LD & LG in the same room. I think they love that – though the first night was a little, um, long for my taste. LD was really excited to go to bed with LD in the room – for the first time he wanted to skip his bath & book. We let him miss the bath, but not so much the reading – we needed to try to let her fall asleep.

When it finally came time for him to go to bed, he ran in, got under his covers as quietly as possible & told me to go away. He wanted to be there in case she woke up, but didn’t want me waking her up. He’s used to sleeping with the dogs and hamster, and has to have a CD of L’s music playing (her actual music – she playes the flute in a local band, and they’ve put out 3 CD’s with holiday music – either x-mas or 4th of July stuff), so we had everything set up just right.

He dropped off pretty much immediately, but she woke up an hour later, possible due to the hamster wheel squeaking non-stop. I swear, that thing is like water torture. We knew she LG was awake, because we could hear her gleefully shouting “HIIIIIIIIIIIIII! HHHHIII! HI! HIIIIIIIII!” to LD – when she stands up in her crib, she’s eye-level with his bed.

After about ten minutes of this, I got her up and let her run around for an hour or so, then gave her a snack and put her back to bed. I had to get up at 4:30 am to get ready for work, and apparently the shower woke her up – the kids’ new room is next to the bathroom. This, in turn, woke up LG, who, in turn, woke up LD. After my shower, I heard her babbling at him while he was talking back to her. I got him up to pee (“can I get up now, Papa?”), then ushered him back into the room, letting him get back into bed while I changed LG & gave her a new bottle.
I’ve no idea if they ever got back to sleep as I was gone by 5 am. I feel sorry for the TN; they are going to be exhausted today. I can’t wait to get LD back to his Kindergarten – I don’t think I’ve been stimulating his brain enough.

Though, when I took him to the toy store to replace a couple of action figures that he’d broken (ok, they weren’t really action figures, they were “pose-able superhero statuettes”) through no fault of his own. He said that he didn’t really want the toys, he’d rather have a geode to break open and a sandstone block of fossils to excavate. Go figure; I thought that was awesome.