Must. Have. More. Coffee.
The boy kept me up almost all night last night. He nursed constantly and leaked through his diapers three times - enough to change his clothes, THREE TIMES. By this morning, the wet spot on the bed had me pushed over (to) The Edge.
He apparently wants to sleep curled up somewhere in my chest cavity, if his burrowing into my body in his sleep is any indication.
The next person who asks me “is he sleeping through the night yet?” might be on the receiving end of one of the phrases I said I was going to stop saying around Judah. What do you care? For crying out loud - even his pediatrician doesn’t ask me that! Stop trying to make yourself feel superior by comparing our children to each other. He’ll sleep through the night when he’s developmentally ready according to his needs and on his timetable. He’s not your child-rearing-book monkey. *&^%$#@!@#$%^&!!! (this really has nothing to do with anyone I know - I just feel the need to grumble about something - so, sorry - but it does annoy the crap out of me when people ask me that, FYI).
I have a blog post I’ve been working on for three days, and can’t find the time to finish. Does it tell you how crazy it is around here if I can’t even REMEMBER what happened on Monday?
Yesterday, I took Killian to his four month visit at the pedi’s office, and then we went from there to the Civic Center to pick up his birth certificate (finally) and we went from there, with the birth certificate, to the Medi-Cal office to update his information, which to me seemed kind of pointless, because I also needed to submit Joshua’s pay stubs, which means we’ll be losing the Medi-Cal, and I don’t see why I should shell out between 50 and 100 bucks for someone to poke around on my kid and declare him “looking great.” That’s just really pointless, if you ask me.
Every time I leave the pediatrician’s office, I feel like I’m an idiot. I told this to my dad on the phone afterwards and he just laughed. Why is that so funny? Don’t get me wrong - I really like our kids’ doctor. He’s nice, he’s amiable, he really gets kids, he’s very good at what he does, and he believes in being the doctor and letting the parents be the parents, and I respect that. And he’s got some GREAT chops. But when I told him that I didn’t see the need to continue bringing my kid in for all these visits if he wasn’t getting shots and he asked when I would like to bring him in and I said if he’s sick or when he’s a year old, he had to stop himself from laughing at me.
We’re compromising. I don’t have to bring him in for six, nine and twelve months. I can bring him in at eight and twelve months and then I’m hoping to skip the 15-monther, too. I think I’m just going to stop opening my mouth when I go in. It’s usually what gets me in trouble. I have a long history of running my mouth (that’s probably why I like blogging so much - I get to run my mouth off at whatever I want).
And someone in our house has been sick since we were in Texas. And now Judah’s is getting worse again and Joshua had a sore throat all night. I told him to stay away from me, since I just got over being sick since before Thanksgiving (he kept trying to hug me goodbye this morning and I kept leaning WAY off to the side). When I told the doctor that we’ve been passing something around since we were in Texas, and joked that I think we’re allergic to Texas, he laughed. At least THAT was funny. Well, you know. In a good way.
Okay, well this was supposed to be a short, I’m-still-alive-but-I-need-more-coffee-to-stay-that-way post, but it has somehow ballooned. I’m trying to compose a couple of posts on news items and actually include some real commentary for once in a long while, and it’s taking a bit. Stay tuned for that and for the letter I’m thinking about writing to the President. That should be fun.
December 20th, 2006 at 11:55 am
Hey, didn’t have a chance to read the post, but I meant to ask: is Killian sleeping through the night yet?
December 20th, 2006 at 1:54 pm
Great post. On all levels. Love the side burns on your doctor.
Speaking of the President. There are certain things I hear that I think I have to talk to Kristen about that one. So, what do you think about the “We’re not winning, but not losing” comment (parenthesis indicate my paraphrase)? I have to admit, as much as I like the guy, that is a Bushism.
December 21st, 2006 at 5:57 am
I SOOOOOOOOO feel your pain….
December 21st, 2006 at 8:01 am
Just a thought:
When people ask you if Killian is sleeping through the night yet, it might actually be polite “code” to ask about YOU. Because if you respond with “no,” then they will empathize and tell you they hope it starts soon. If you answer “yes,” they will be glad for you and know that your stress level won’t be due to lack of sleep.
So, then why don’t they just ask about you? Well, dear, they’re being polite and including your entire family in the mix. Most people that would ask that are fully aware that “if Mama ain’t happy, then nobody’s happy,” and well…
…at least it’s another perspective.
December 21st, 2006 at 11:23 am
brent - good point. perhaps for some people that’s the case. perhaps i’m too blunt that I don’t understand the “code” anyway - why then people just don’t ask how I’m doing, or better yet, if I’M getting any rest. (the answer is still gonna be NO)?
It still seems like “sleeping through the night’ is some magic marker that all children must aspire to from the day they are born and I just don’t understand that.
I do think there is a lot of competition among parents to see whose children develop faster and whose children are smarter - who sleeps through the night first, who cuts teeth first, who eats solid food first, who potty trains first. i want to be proud of my children’s accomplishments without people telling me they’re delayed or offering unsolicited advice on how to get them to that next level faster or how to parent.
i’m happy with where they’re at and how we’re raising them. that’s where i’m coming from.
but that’s really a different blog post. and i was pretty grouchy yesterday morning, anyway. i did get more coffee, though.
December 21st, 2006 at 11:55 am
Well, my kid was sleeping through the night at day 2, neener, neener (just kidding, please don’t hurt me).
I am with you on the doctor visiting. I think it’s all one big scam. See, they put this fear in you that your baby will die, have an arm fall off, or develop mutant powers if you don’t bring them in. And in return, they get to bill you/your insurance a hefty sum for about 20 minutes worth of “work”. I’m very skeptical of a lot of “services” out there (realtors and title companies being another one)
December 21st, 2006 at 1:29 pm
Oh, and Kristen, when they turn into teenagers, there’s the EXACT OPPOSITE of that “are they sleeping through the night yet”:
It’s: “Is your child sleeping until noon on Saturdays? Should I be waking them up before then?”
December 21st, 2006 at 5:56 pm
Yeah, I’m going to be asking you about Killian sleeping through the night, too, and I’ll tell ya right now, I don’t give a hoot about YOU, nor am I comparing Killian to Dignan… I’m simply trying to get a grasp on when **I** can expect to sleep “through the night” once we have a kid! So be forewarned.
December 22nd, 2006 at 12:16 pm
spectacular photo, by the way!
December 25th, 2006 at 2:40 pm
love the foto. took a while for me to get the connection about being ‘wired.’
methinks me needs some coffee too.