writers block 26 February, 2009 at 9:20 pm
So, i keep having ideas for posts, but by the time I get the opportunity to make posts …
I forget what I was thinking about. then i can’t think of anything else to post. laem.
Sick DK :( 23 February, 2009 at 9:53 am
So, Wednesday afternoon he climbed out of the bath to have diarrhea on the floor. Quite thoughtful, really, since the toys are a nuisance to clean, but the bath mat i can toss in the laundry.
Wednesday night he threw up in the bed. I stayed home Thursday for him.
Thursday he ran 101-105 all day, and only the motrin was helping at all. So I stayed home Friday.
Friday he ran around, happy and not seemingly sick at all. Touch of a fever still, but not much of one. Had some diarrhea in the evening again, but not much, and he didnt’ eat anything thursday, so not surprising.
Saturday he didn’t want to play at Gymboree. Tired, clingy. Lots of TV and XBox. But seemingly OK. I made black bean quesadillas for dinner and gave him a chocolate milk. Later we went to the grocery store and he gave me back dinner. His coat and pants were coated, and my coat got it when I picked him up. (My coat is at the cleaner’s now ; his went through the laundry)
Sunday we took it slow, more TV and XBox. Fried rice at dinner. He was out by 7. Took him up, laid him down in the bed. And he started throwing up. Bath, sheet change, back to bed.
This morning my alarm went off, and he wanted some gatorade to drink. Ten mintues later he’s draining gatorade back into the sheets. I stayed home again.
Two sheets changes in 12 hours. And he still feels lousy :(
sir not sleeping in this picture 15 February, 2009 at 11:18 pm
DK has decided of late that he is a big proponent of not sleeping.
He’s been going down between 10:30 and 11:30 for the last week or so, but we think that’s partially he’s been sick. Last night we tried putting him to bed ~9:30, and he was having none of it. We came downstairs, he ate the last mozerella sticks and went down pretty easy about 10:30ish.
And that’s happened a few times. Doesn’t go to bed, we have cheese sticks and a new diaper, bed.
So tonight we were going to try dinner over by 6 (which weekdays it generally is anyway), cheese sticks around 8, bed at 9. Except dinner didn’t get out until after 6:30, and he didnt eat much until the rest of dinner was out (we had crabcakes, but they wanted 30 minute in the oven, so I heated up leftover pasta w/ pesto for him ; his was out ~6:25, ours came out ~6:55). Dinner finished around 7:15. He started laying odown on my lap and all, so we went ahead and tried bedtime early. Nothing doing.
Came downstairs, he ate two cheese sticks, which was surprising because he didnt quite finish his second bowl of pasta. tried bed again, still no go.
Kiir took him up about 10. About 10:40 they called me up to snuggle on his otherside. About 11:10 he was finally out.
Oi. Needless to say, I’m not getting much chance to post lately :o
I must use this power only for GOOD! 5 February, 2009 at 10:04 pm
So, I sent that email about Super Why! to PBS Kids on the 24th. On the 28th, I saw that Super Why! Volume 2 was on iTunes now …
Well, on Monday I went to the Word World site and submitted an email to them commenting on how DK likes Super Why! and Word World, and how the former was on iTunes and asking if they had plans to put the latter up.
On the 4th (Wednesday) I got email from the Word World folks. It’s great that your son likes WW, toys and DVDs at Target(tm), and starting on the 17th you’ll be able to find Word World on iTunes …
I must use my powers only for good!
Scheduling Difficulties 4 February, 2009 at 11:39 pm
So, DK’s sleep schedule is all whacked out.
He was going up between 8 and 9, leading me to bed and laying down to sleep. That lasted maybe two weeks, and it was GREAT. Then he missed a nap one day and we haven’t quite recovered the schedule.
Right now? he’s being tired ~7 and yawning and kinda trying to lay down on my lap until I take him upstairs. ~8:30 or 9. I was going earlier, but …
Then we brush our teeth and read a story, he likes listening to Dr Seuss. I’ve kindof decided to not try showing him the pics and words right now, just read it. We’ll move to looking at what we’re reading later I think. At least at bedtime. Anyway, he’ll wander the room or lay down on the bed while we read. Then it’s sleeping time. And that’s where things fall apart.
I turn off the light, he pops up to turn it back on. I try to curl up with him, he does the stiff as a board thing, even bowing his back to make it hard to hold him. He pushes off my legs for leverage if he can reach them. He’ll grab my hair to pull himself up. Or pull me up to move me. Flailing, squirming. Screaming bloody murder the whole time. And getting worked up more and more.
That usually goes on for half an hour or so, before I decide a) I’m tired of torturing my son, and b) he’s so worked up he CAN’T fall asleep now. So we’ll go back downstairs for 30-60 minutes. And back up. And it repeats.
Tonight he went down the second time. Monday night, Kiir took him up after my second attempt and he went down reasonably. Not immediately or quietly, but not too long. If I take him up earlier than 8:30, we just end up with a third cycle on me.
Then this morning the boy woke up at 3:30 :( No idea why, he just was suddenly wide awake. We came downstairs until he seemed like he might go down again, and we went back to bed at 6. Kiir talked me into ignoring my 6:30 alarm and going back to sleep for a little bit. Barely made my train, but the extra two hours of sleep was probably worthwhile.
I just wish I knew what the problem was and why we can’t sleep earlier anymore :/ Because I really don’t like making him scream for half an hour at a time :/
I. Hate. Doctor. Appts. 28 January, 2009 at 12:40 am
Had a Dermatologist appt this morning. End result — you have dry skin, it’s common this time of year and you scratch and it gets worse. Have some steroid cream (actually I think she prescribed ointment which I am going to HATE) for two weeks, come back then.
That was the short version.
Long version?
Arrived 9:50 for my 10:00 so I could fill out papers/etc like they asked. Turns out that was the same papers they mailed me, so I’d already done that part. That’s fine.
Wait in the waiting area until 10:20, they call me back to the exam rooms. They tell me to take off my pants and put on this crappy paper hospital gown thing. But I’ve been to these dances enough by now for other things. I had my PJs on under my pants. And that’s a pair of shorts. So I just took off my pants and waited in my shorts.
And waited.
And waited.
At 10:45 I texted Kiir to tell her I was still waiting, so she’d know.
At 10:50 the assistant opened the door briefly to say that they were backed up thank you for waiting it’ll just be a moment …
at 11:05 I was getting ready to call Kiir to tell her I didn’t think I was making it home in time to drive her to her 11:45 appt. With the snow and all, I needed to leave by 11:15 to get home and get back to her doc’s in time. But then the Dermatologist came in. She seemed nice enough.
For the three minutes I saw her! She came in, started diagnosing when she saw my legs from the door, looked a little closer with the light and gloves, decided she was right the first time, prescribed, warned me against using hte steroids for more than two weeks, and left.
By 11:10 I was back in my car …
an hour and a half I spent for a 3 minute appointment???? W T F???
*sigh* at least she didn’t say it was The Diabetes ™ :o
Playing at the Gym at 12:33 am
Today we took DK to the gym for swimming (again). We only go 3 or 4 times a week. Tend to miss Thursday right now for Gymboree open gym, while our membership is still active, and then usually one of the weekend days when he goes to my parents for us to clean.
But we went earlier and dropped him off at the Children’s Center. had some awkward questions when I was trying to figure out what we needed to know about dropping him off, told them that as long as they don’t have a problem with it, then WE don’t have an issue with him going to the climbing structures and ball pit and hamster tunnel net maze thing. They said that as long as they’re not too busy he can go. He’ll love that ;)
So we dropped him off, I changed and went upstairs to work out some (side note: they have the back extender (seriously, I used it for 2 years at columbia assoc, and i found it today, and I don’t know the real name? wtf?) yay!) and just generally get an idea of whats up there. The major plan was to drop him off for about half an hour so we could try it out make sure he was OK.
He was kinda pissed when we came to pick him up. Because, half an hour? seriously? I am SOOOO not done here people!!! C’mon! lemme stay!! ooh swimming, Ok , we can go i guess!
Apparently I can work out now ;) The next issue will be to determine if he has an issue with going to play and NOT swimming after. Then I could take him the two evenings that the pool doesn’t have open swim in the evenings.
Super Why?!!! at 12:27 am
So, after I sent that email to PBS Kids about Super Why! on iTunes …
Haven’t heard back from them, but! i happened to notice that iTunes had a free ep of SW! up, and when I went to look, they actually have a whole Volume 2! ten new eps for DK’s viewing pleasure!
Now I’m seriously thinking of asking them to put the Word World eps up :o
Gamefly, pt 2 26 January, 2009 at 10:24 pm
So, I dropped Star Wars Clone Wars Lightsaber Duels (jesus that’s a long title) in the mail Saturday morning after Gymboree with DK.
Got the e-mail saying they received it and they’re shipping out my next game … I don’t know if they actually received it or if this is the fast-scan thing. It was only going to Pittsburgh, so it could easily have reached by now.
We’ll see how the complete turnaround is. 2 days to receive, so we’ll see when the new one comes up.
PBS Kids Shows 25 January, 2009 at 10:32 am
So, DK generally gets to watch 4 shows at home.
- PBS Kids Word World
- PBS Kids Super Why!
- Disney My Friends Tigger & Pooh
- Disney Handy Manny
Tigger & Pooh we found one (maybe two?) disc last year. Then we found them on iTunes so we just bought the rest of the eps there. We haven’t quite decided what to do about the few we have on DVD. We haven’t bought them on iTunes yet, but I’m tempted to just so they’re all in the same format :o
At Thanksgiving he decided he liked Handy Manny, so when we got home we picked that up for him too. Because a little bi of variety is nice.
Word World we’d found earlier and have 4 discs of shows. Maybe about half hte first season at this point I think. They put out a disc every 3-6 months with three more eps on it. Slow. And a little behind the show :/
Super Why! They had on iTunes when Kiir was looking around and she thought it looked good for him. He enjoys it, dances and interacts, yeah. Ten eps at the time. They haven’t put any more eps in since then. It’s been over a year :/ They seem to have put out one disc last year. So there are now 2 eps on disc.
I’m thinking about checking that huge antenna that’s been in our attic since we moved in, see if it does anything. If I can pick up PBSKids I may start recording off the air. But I adamantly REFUSE to pay for cable so I can record PBS shows!!!
(I did send an email on the contact form for SW! asking about the iTunes content … I may put one in for WW too ; since we got the appleTV it’s just so much easier to have things in iTunes instead of always changing discs)