Monkey House

As it turns out, there’s no pattern to this little guy. I just can’t figure him out.

Day 16

A fairly uneventful day. In truth, I don’t remember all the details. All it takes is one additional full day (day 17) to erase most of the memories of day 16. But here’s how it pieced together from the best of my memory:

Morning

I’ll just call it “morning” because I don’t really remember when I got up or what we did with ourselves. I remember looking over at him, half-asleep from my crap sleep schedule, and wishing he’d sleep more instead of clawing at my face with his fingernailed little digits. Not that I really expected anything different, as this was all part of the normal morning routine. But ‘expecting’ and ‘hoping’ are two different things! Read the rest of this entry »

I write the title of today’s post with an exclamation mark, because when nothing exciting happens, that means that the day was smooth. OK, it also sometimes means we didn’t do anything interesting, but I’ll take that as a more than worthwhile trade-off.
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Day 14 went pretty smoothly.

He started off with the same trick as Day 13… act all tired in bed, fooling me into thinking he’d just fall asleep and let me continue my own sleep. Nope. Got up, did some typical morning “get ready” stuff, and quickly realized as we went a bit past his naptime that a fight was forthcoming. So, I “cheated” a bit and went for the car nap. The car nap might be a crutch, but it can’t be good for either party’s mental health to go through a battle just for some sleep.

After the car nap we had some lunch (chicken, pear, “instant cereal in biscuit form”, crackers, water), and I called Grammy up for a visit.
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Mama Monkey has a parking pass now. So I don’t drive her to work, and Cole doesn’t fall asleep on the way home. Good, right?

Except apparently he doesn’t fall asleep at all.

To make a long story short, fought for sleep for 3 hours. His aunt came over with lunch today (thank God) and got to witness the bleary eyes and the complete unwillingness to sleep.
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Day 11 – June Mommies

I told myself, “Today will be a good day of napping. I will be organized. It will be smooth.”

Trouble is, nobody passed that message along to Cole.

Agenda: almost clear. Meet the “June Mommies” (friends of Mama Monkey who all had children in June) at 1:00, or whenever naps make it convenient. This day should be a piece of pie.

Started off with the usual “nap in the car” thing. Only 45 mins I think. Not a big deal, though. I don’t ‘love’ the car nap, but it’s a nap. I’ll take it where I can get it. He wakes up in a bit of a cranky-pants mood, but not too bad. Let’s keep him busy, which will keep me sane– let’s pack some things up and head over to Nana and Grandpa S’s place. Good idea, but it took a bit more time organizing than I’d like, which meant we reached a point where he wanted some milk. OK, put milk on to get warm, take him for a change of diaper.

But wait… this isn’t working according to plan.
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