Psychotomy

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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Wednesday night while I was getting the bathing suits together, DK came down and went into the bedroom. He does that a lot when he comes down. He goes in and turns on the cd player/alarm clock.

He likes the Tori disc we have in there (Choirgirl Hotel). And thats what he did this time too. Went in, hit play, waited (impatiently) while it spun up and started. And as soon as the music opened, he was dancing and twirling and having a BLAST.

I felt really bad dragging him out to dress him for going to the pool :o (he had fun in the pool, though, so …)

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So, DK is talking more and more.

The other night, I gave him an icepop and I took an icecream bar out of the freezer for myself. When he finished, he asked (pantomime demanded) kiir go to the kitchen. And through a really bad game of charades, she got him an ice cream like daddy had had.

They came out to the living room and she opened the wrapper and gave it to him so he could take it out and eat it. And he looked at it, mumbled something, pulled it out, “na pa!”

He turned it around and over and about in his hands before finally deciding to put it back in the wrapper (which only partially worked, it’s not easy), handing it back to mommy and saying ‘Nah a pah!!’ After we finished laughing, we decided that he was quite clearly anticipating another popsicle (thus “Not a pop!”) and since we’d already agreed to (as far as he knew) give him one, it didn’t seem fair to not let him have it. So I got another ice cream, he got another pop. This time he looked at it closer before taking it out. “Pah.”

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So, today:

• Up at 7, took K out, started some more cleaning and laundry
• DK and Pi up at 8:45, put Pi on my back while I did dishes
• Gymboree for DK at 10, Pi and Kiir came with us
• Home, made lunch for everyone, and ate
• Pi and DK fell asleep on the way to the pick-your-own farm
• Berry Picking with DK, Kiir and Pi from ~1 to 2.
• Home, baths
• 4pm pictures for Pi’s 3mo, tried to get a couple with DK (failure!). Took DK on the carosel and got ice cream during pictures, walked around the mall some, got him fries, and pictures were ready to pick up now.
• Home, started rice for dinner, took K on a walk
• Getting ready to start on the rest of dinner, then eat …
• Then probably taking DK to the playground to run off some more energy
• THEN probably walks with Pi and K
• Pass out around 11

Day of rest my arse.

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this evening DK and i went to the big playground after dinner, and we ended up playing for ~2 hrs!

after it sprinkled but decided not to rain, we were the only people for a few minutes then a group came up of teens. they were quite nice and played with dk a bunch :o

thanks to kiki, timmy, and david

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Wow, I just keep not getting a chance to post updates. A couple times over the weekend I got ~30 minutes and totally blanked. I keep having ideas of things I want to blog on, but never remember them by the time I get to a computer. Thinking about digging up a cheap recorder so I can note-to-self while I’m out with Pi.

That said, she’s growing well, happy, smiley. We actually took her into the pool first time on Friday, since they have a 3mo limit. She seemed to enjoy it. I’d dipped her feet before and she liked that. I sat in the shallow area with her in my lap while Kiir and DK went out deeper to swim around. “Swim around” meaning that he rode piggyback on mommy as she walked around the pool.

This evening we went out to the big playground a few miles away and he spent an hour and a half running around on the structures and going up the stairs and the rockpile and the ladders and coming down the slides. He also enjoyed chasing after the five year old on her razor up on the structure … frankly, she seemed like a bad idea to me, but her mom wandered off to read in one of the nearby buildings. *eyeroll*

We actually only left because he had to go potty. And I didn’t want to go into the public restroom there for him, b/c (a) it’s already complicated with him, and (b) it was FOUL in there last time I was there … But he was leading me towards the car, but not quite TO the car, so it took me a while to figure out what he wanted. In the meantime we shared a pack of poptars he found in the car and a juicebox. I thought he was thirsty :o

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So, the first time DK spent a night without at least one of us around was when we were both at the hospital when PI was born. But he made it through that great without any issues or anything, happily played with Dadi and Dada and fell asleep on dada’s lap watching a movie.

Saturday we had a gaming session, so we were dropping DK at my folks again, but since the driving would have been all over the place, they were going to keep him for the night. This time he wouldn’t be at his home, but it was still Dadi and Dada.

He threw a bit of a tantrum when we were leaving, didn’t want us to go, but once we left he calmed down and was perfectly fine until we picked him up today. So his major hangup was just with us leaving, not so much with us being gone :o

Such a big boy :o

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So, wednesday night I forgot to take my meds.

by thursday afternoon i was completely wrecked. by the time i got home I was having random and untriggered breakdowns.

i think maybe i need to up my meds again. or change them. because if missing a single dose trashes me out that badly, i don’t know that that’s an acceptable margin of error :/

most of friday i was pissy and moody still.

So, i miss one dose, the following day i’m totally tossed and the next day i was still recovering. 24 hours to kick in, 10 hours to flush out … crapola

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Saturday was DK’s birthday party, he had fun.

Then early Sunday, Kiir, DK, and PI all left for atlanta. So there’s only me and K-line at home now. which is great, I can do various things that are hard when dealing with everyone. Hit the gym yesterday, ran the first oven through clean cycle, watched some TV and worked my way through about 8 boxes of stuff trying to sort and classify it. 3 boxes into the attic, two boxes trashed, and three still left to process. not bad.

The other major feature of this week is that, with no one else here, I can catch up on my sleep. In fact, my MIL and my wife were both very clear on two subjects:

1. I’m expected to clean this week
2. I am not to complain about being tired because she’s taking BOTH kids and so I can sleep all I want and dammit I better

Which is annoying. Because it’s not like I was planning on an 8-day bender or anything. I ALWAYS clean when she’s gone, and I ALWAYS try to catch up my sleep so I can handle DK (and now PI) more when she gets back tired.

Of course, the problem is that I’m so used to having someone else in the house (kiir since 99) and I’m used to sleeping in DK’s bed with him for hte last 6-9 months (and before that, he was in the bed with me and kiir) … I have trouble sleeping when it’s just me.

Don’t get me wrong, I catch up my sleep in the first two or htree nights when I’m trashed from exhaustion, but after that … I ended up watching TV and cleaning until 3am one time because that was when I was finally tired enough to contemplate laying in bed.

Well, apparently, it’s getting worse. I was exhausted yesterday. Falling asleep at my desk today, frankly. But I ended up going to bed at nearly midnight, which is when I USUALLY go to bed with DK already, so no bonus sleep. And even then I spent 45 minutes tossing in bed before I finally drifted out :/

At least I’m getting some cleaning done?

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so, i took dk up for his nap after lunch. he played in his room, but not interested in napping. i give up just as kiir’s bringing pi up and going to lay down to take a nap.

so I tkae DK downstairs, figure we’ll play xbox. frankly, he’ll probably fall asleep on my lap, but if not, no nap means early bedtime, so that’s fine too.

10 maybe 20 minutes in, kiir calls me to come get PI. Obviously I can’t hold pi while dk sits on my lap, so i save and quit the game so I can put something on for him to watch when we get back down.

excpet he decides to stay up and snuggle up to mommy. half an hour later, they’re both asleep (fairly sure K is keeping a corner of the bed warm too) and I’m sitting slouched in the dining room chair so pi can snuggle up and sleep on my shoulder …

meaning I’m the ONLY person still awake, and I can’t do anything but type on the computer or risk waking everyone else up. oi!!!

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