Psychotomy

Today it was raining.  Tomorrow it’s supposed to rain.  It rained yesterday.  We decided that taking Pi to the zoo on Pi day was going to be cold, damp, and muddy.  And the animals would probably show more smarts and stay inside.

So we went out to the aquarium in Baltimore today, instead.  Nani & Pom’s gift this year for the two of them was the family membership.  The both fell asleep in the car, so we let them sleep a while.  Woke them up at 3, ~90 minutes of naptime.  DK kept running ahead, I think he was looking for something, but it turned out to not be the puffins or the sharks.  Might have been the arboretum, might have just been hyper.

Kiir kept running after him and trying to get him to stop an look at the fishes, with limited cooperation from the boy.  I had Pi on my back, and we kept stopping to look at the fish.  She liked the pretty colored ones :o

OMG are people annoying.  They kept standing like 5 in a row completely blocking paths and views.  And with Pi on my back, I couldn’t really slip through anything.  And the folks who had to surrender their strollers (it’s crowded enough as it is; we take ours to contain the boy to/from the parking deck, and to store our coats when we check it) and got the aquarium issued carriers … External frame hiking bags.  Except instead of high, they went far back.  And these people weren’t used to them.  I kept having to dodge out of the way :!

Pi enjoyed the fishes, and when DK calmed down (after going up on Kiir’s back) we went through a second time so he could actually see fishes.  And Pi could get a second round with less rushing to keep up.

They were both happy with their fishes viewing, yay!

Happy birthday, Pi girl.

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So, I’ve determined that the reason DK doesn’t use more than mono-sounds is the fact that he doesn’t cognitively recognize the necessity of more.  Because he CAN, in fact, do longer words.  He simply DOES NOT.

My confirmation came today when he looked at the word octopus, sounded it out, and then said Oct.  With some prodding he went to Octo.  But an hour earlier he’d asked for “caysadiya” (which, frankly, is how quesadilla would look if he tried to spell it).  So obviously he CAN use longer words.  And he can recognize that there’s more word.  But he doesn’t feel the need to enunciate it because he doesn’t have any other words that start octo.

So, I guess we need to introduce him to more words so he’ll get more collisions, in which case he’d naturally end up using full words.

Also, do normal people refer to them as hash collisions?  I wonder what a pediatrician or ped-speech would call it …

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So, I am apparently an evil dad.  Today I decided we really needed to take down the xmas tree, so I started pulling down ornaments.  And DK started grabbing them and trying to put them back up :o

By the time I was taking down the lights, Pi had a piece of wrapping paper in her hand and just kept turning it over and looking at it, like ‘wait, what’s happening?  I liked the presents thing :(‘

Apparently after Xmas comes Evil.  And I am the embodiment of all that is evil :/

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Lately, DK has taken to shaking my hand occasionally and telling me that it’s nice to meet me.  “Nice to meet you!”

Last night at Costco he was on Kiir’s back in the carrier, having been taking a nap.  He was awake by now, just still in the carrier, and he turns to me and puts out his hand.  I give him mine, he shakes it, and says “Nice to meet me!”

The pleasure is all mine! :o

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So, took DK swimming today. Of course, he ran off and wanted to go to the children’s center instead. While I’m following him down the corridor, I’m commenting on how I have the swimming stuff not the workout stuff. what am I supposed to do here, dk?

He ignored me, as I expected, and they barely got his nametag on him before he vanishd into the kids center So I went to work on my back (which, apparently, there’s basically nothing for stretching out that lowest part of my back where I have all my trouble; only one machine, and it doesn’t seem to help anymore)

He was actually there about 15-20 minutes before apparently realizing that I wasn’t there with him, or something. They called me back, and once he saw me he was almost ready to run back in, with me in tow this time.

We went to the pool instead and played for another half hour. Then the showers for 15-20 minutes. The biggest problem I had the whole time? The screaming fit when I turned off the shower. sigh.

Came home and he fussed and fought and fell asleep. Now I don’t really know what to do with myself.

I suppose I probably should have been cleaning the basement some more, try to finish that up for a play area for DK, Pi and Kiir during the days. Oops

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hearing that is downright depressing :o

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So I want to try to get a few posts up over the next couple days talking about the VAST AMOUNTS OF FUN that was my weekend trip to atlanta :o

But in the meantime, DK was putting his Cars matchbox hot wheels in the crip tonight. When I took them out so he could play with them, he got off his chair, grabbed them, and put them back in. Apparently they went to sleep when he didn’t :o

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So, as much as I miss having the opportunity to play on the xbox ,mess on the computer, or watch vids, generally …

It turns out the last 3 days have sucked. I have no energy, no drive. My get up and go got up and went when I had to drop Kiir at the airport (wasn’t even allowed to go in with them :/)

Sunday was the wedding, and DK with all the jumping left my arms exhausted. Monday when I got home I pulled vines from the yard. Did some general cleanup in the living room, reorganized the video drawer so its a lot of vids DK can watch instead of front loaded with Law and Order :)

Need to clean out the car today, of all the bits DK has left overs. Need to finish vacuuming and steaming. But I’ve been so damned drained, even the 10 minute process of vacuuming daunts me :/

I think I need to look at my meds, too. Because this? this is ridiculous.

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Monday I woke up around 6 in the morning. Tuesday I woke up at 5:30, took a shower. Kiir handed me Pi to take for a while, so she could get some peaceful sleep without Pi kicking around the bed and curling into her back. Around then, DK woke up and snuggled with her, but he’s less of an issue to her sleep than Pi is (he can move if he’s uncomfortable or rolled on). At 6:30 they came downstairs because DK wasn’t going to sleep. At 7:30 I left for work. at 7:35 I got back to help watch them for the day because kiir was exhausted. Sent her back to bed and I hung out with the kids for a while. Then Pi went up to nap with mommy. Then DK was ready for naps. I took Pi for a walk. Did a few things at home (including work), took Pi for another walk. Went out for gymboree, and DK fell asleep on the way, so we drove around a bit.

Yesterday morning, DK woke up at about 4am. he ran over and snuggled with mommy for about ten minutes, and then I brought him back to the bed he and I share. Then I roused halfway to turn off the alarm at 6:30, woke up at 7:25, raced through my morning things and booked for the train. Technically I missed the train by about a minute, but he held the door for me since I was running down the parking lot (yay)

This morning I woke up at 5, was afraid of waking him up if I tried to fall back asleep. I am so tired at this point :o

It woldn’t be as bad if he would go down easier at like 9 instead of 11 .. and even then it’s sometimes over an hour :/

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Pi is quietly sleeping on the floor, and DK is watching Wall-E for the second time this morning already.

Kiir hasn’t been getting good sleep, all broken up and fragmented, with Pi sleeping against her back. Pi seems to be working on crawling around, so she wanders around in the bed some at night, making it harder to sleep :o So kiir asked me to stay home from work today so she could get some rest and not kill anyone.

DK woke up at 6 and went over to snuggle with her, and about 6:45 they came downstairs because he just wasnt’ sleep ready :/ He’s exhausted, he just won’t go to sleep yet. Figure I’ll make him lunch about 10, maybe a little before, and see if he’ll go down for his nap then. Hopefully he’ll wake up from nap less cranky, too.

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