It’s RegularDad’s birthday today. We’ll be celebrating quietly at home with good seafood, a salad, some cake and a few gifts.
The girls have already drawn numerous pictures for RegularDad, and my 7-year-old composed the following poem on the fly first thing this morning:
Happy birthday, Dad.
I love you so much.
You’re my kind of Dad
and that makes me glad.
Not bad for before 8:00 am. And for having a mother who’s getting over a minor (yet irritatingly lingering) cold who only got about 4 hours of sleep last night because her 4-year-old was up constantly.
And for my next trick, I will now attempt to cheerily take my kids to Target and then to the supermarket to pick up items required for tonight’s celebration. Not only will I accomplish this feat, I will do so happily, toting a pre-written list of required items. And without dozing off at the seafood counter. And I will let my kids take their time looking at the live lobsters. And I will remember that we need blank CD’s and new magnifying glasses.
Wish me luck people.
I’ll post a party update later tonight.
Happy birthday RegularDad!!! Love that poem…. very sweet.
Diito! Glad you are feeling better.
Thanks guys. So, I got everything. But I almost forgot the CAKE of all things. Luckily, the girls reminded me. They’re really good at remembering the cake.
Okay, Happy Birthday and all that. Now on to what I wanna talk about: WHAT IS up with the 4yo? Is it just a cold or something else?
Leo (4 on October fifteenf!) isn’t sleeping. He’s never been a great sleeper but this is — well, something else. He’s just – up. A lot. All the time. I’m just barely hanging on with this newborn sleep schedule; I feel like a zombie. Probably look like one, too. Do I sound as haggard and frantic as I feel? LOL
Must sleep. Tell me there’s a reason. If I weren’t so tired and fried, I’d probably connect the dots between his big huge tremendous brain spurt (seriously, it’s like he took a shot of Mensa) and this restlessness, but I’m cranky and sleepy and just want a quick fix.
andie, I feel your pain.
Here, we’ve got a combination of unexpected hot nights (and we already took the air conditioners out of the windows) plus the bonus that the girls are sharing a room this year after having always had their own rooms. They’re tucked in each night by 8:00 pm, but then they keep each other up usually till well past 9:00. They wake each other up in the middle of the night. And they usually hear RegularDad get into the shower at 5:30 am and wake up then, ready to see him off and get the day started.
My 4-year-old also has problems with what I can only call “growing pains”. She wakes up late in the evenings sometimes, crying, because her legs just ache. We bring her out into the living room when this happens and give her some Tylenol and a little bit of milk or water and just let her calm down.
But the past 3 nights, she’s complained of these aches right at bedtime, and we generally cover the aching limb with a cold washcloth. But then, she has trouble settling down because she’s too hot, or her sister is still reading, and….UGH!
I am dying here, with the lack of sleep. It’s hard to not be grumpy when she gets up at midnight or 1:00 am, because that’s usually just when I’ve managed to fall asleep (insomnia problems) and then I have to get up and help her, and then I’m too awake to fall back asleep.
Oh, how I wish they would just sleep from 8:00 at night to 7:00 in the morning. Is that asking too much?
And all that, on top of the tinnitus, and now a potential thyroid problem….it’s overwhelming.
But, in the end, we’ll get through it. Right?
Hugs to you and wishing you a good night’s sleep soon.