Just another morning at our house.
Leo concots the best outfits. And he is so modest about them. Just this morning he unceremoniously emerged from the basement playroom wearing his jester cap, dragging his dog-on-a-string.
So. Another crazy week and it's ONLY TUESDAY. But it’s all a bit easier to swallow coming on the heels of my glorious weekend. More on that later.
A few notes:
-Ellie continues to speak in sentences more and more. I swear it feels like warp speed. Last week started the demands: “I want to eat that HERE mommy.” “I want to hold that.” “I want Baby (her doll) Mommy.” It is truly stunning. And fun. Her repertoire literally grows daily. And I can’t help but think it is awesome for Leo to be around.
-Both kids were on antibiotics last week (yes we all eventually got strep, the grownups actually caught it twice-yippee!) and both kids have become awesome medicine taking troopers. No need even for the syringe. Ellie drank her dose in the little plastic cup from the Tylenol bottle. How I do not miss the medicine headlock dosing dance. And then it became a competition, who can squeal and cheer the loudest for the other, for successfully taking the medicine! In case it was ever a question, neither kid is a baby anymore.
-"Mad Men" is coming back in August! I haven’t had much time for TV lately but I did start watching “Nurse Jackie,” starring the awesome Edie Falco. She uttered what may be the best line we'll hear on summer TV (I realize that's not saying much). This one’s been highly publicized on the Internet and in mags but it bears repeating as it’s so great:
“I don't like chatty. I don't do chatty. I like quiet. Quiet and mean -- those are my people.”
OK so maybe I’m usually not as mean aloud as I sometimes fantasize, but I admit a love for watching other people be mean. As Dorothy Parker supposedly said, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit next to me.”
-Leo continues to be up most mornings between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m., sometimes a little closer to 4:30 a.m. I believe it is slowly killing both Erin and me. Not that we have a choice. The usual routine is to let him come into our bed to watch 30 minutes of Diego or Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (did I mention he LOVES Mickey Mouse now? We discovered it when we were in Mystic and our hotel had Disney Channel but no Noggin. And by the way, what is up with the theme song to Mickey Mouse Clubhouse? It has to be one of the most infectious and yes, annoying--Meeska Mooska Mickey Mouse? WTH?).
Unfortunately, Leo usually doesn’t want to watch more than about half an hour of TV in the morning (can you believe I’m complaining about my kid NOT wanting to watch TV?). Sorry, but when he’s awake closer to 4:30? I am all Bring On the TV. So I tried something new this morning. I told him we couldn’t go downstairs to play (what he wants to do when he’s finished with TV) until “the big hand on the clock was on the twelve and the little hand was on the six.” And guess what? He totally bought it. He tried to talk me into it being six when it really wasn’t but after a few more explanations and discussion of which hand was what, he left it alone and I got to close my eyes until glorious 6 a.m.
Every little bit counts, I tell you.
3 comments:
What is the deal with these early rising kids?? Mine have, I swear, been tag teaming it lately.
Leo is rocking the shades, btw.
I love that Dorothy Parker line. Just more confirmation that if you and I ever have the great fortune to meet in person, we will get along famously.
Leo! You're quite the character, but stay. in. your. bed!
Evan's a 6 AM on-the-dot man these days. I'd like to throttle whoever it was that got my hopes up by saying that kids with Down syndrome sleep a lot. Pffftttt, I say. Come round my house before the sun rises, wouldya?
My Ellie started waking at 4:30-5:00 for the day when she was about 3 months old. She just started sleeping until six a couple of months ago. Nearly 20 months later. It was awful.
My friends with older kids have had a lot of luck with the clock thing, if you want to be extra devious you can set it behind and give yourself some extra time!
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