First off- you are looking at a lady that got FIVE hours of uninterrupted sleep last night. And yes, I am celebrating. Because usually I get maybe three.
It goes a little something like this: Put W down between 7 or 8 (variation due to time spent in bath or time being silly), then do all the things I can’t do while he is awake (fold laundry, read blogs, read newspapers online), then sleep from around 11pm-1pm. Am roused awake by need to listen for W or need to pee. Am now AWAKE and can not get back to sleep from 1:30-sometimes 3:00. Finally get back to sleep. W starts stirring as early as 5am some mornings. And some mornings I ignore him and some mornings I can not. (babbling I can ignore, SCREAMING? not so much.)
So long stretches of sleep are just something that I day dream about.
Two nights ago W woke up SCREAMING three times. Nothing would calm him down. He was just so fussy. I attributed it to gas or a need to poo. Last night he slept sooooo well. And for some awesome reason so did I. (well I got those 5 consecutive hours!)
I am now going to segue awfully to an aside that will annoy you for a moment but just hang on- it all ties back in. Promise!
I am trying to teach W how to clap. He can give me some skin like a pro. And Mother and I have even been using his awesome “FIVE!!” enthusiasm to help teach him how to touch the dog. As in, “W, don’t yank on the Charlie’s hair. Give him five!”
However clapping is just something silly that the grown up people do. But oh man does he fucking LOVE the sound we make when we clap. Mother and I, for some reason, always say “YAY!!” when we clap. Now that is a sound that W really adores. So as we clap he joins in on the YAY!!! (oh good lawd is it cute.)
Ok, back to this morning. (see! Told you I would swing this boat back around.) W is in his high chair nomming on some melon and I think I see something else in his mouth. We are no longer in an era where I can just poke my fingers in his mouth as if I owned it. So I, clever mummy, just started clapping.
And as W joined in to gleefully proclaim, “YAY!!” I saw that he had cut another tooth on the left and had another one peeping through on the right. Downstairs. They appear to be the front molars as there is a bit of space between his incisors that I imagine the canines will eventually occupy.
So now I am relieved to know the reason behind the awful sleep. And just a bit, impressed (for lack of a better word) at how well he teethed. Previous teeth have been torture on all involved. I wonder if these just hurt less coming through or if the pain is just something that he is familiar with and is, I don’t know, taking in stride??
ANOTHER segue! Here it comes!
Hulu.com is the awesome. Big time love. BIG TIME. Not only can I watch all the shows I have been missing but many of them are closed captioned. (not very well, but anything is better than nothing) And yesterday afternoon I discovered that one of the random shows that I had ‘discovered’ last year was in a new season and I could watch it on hulu. Being Erica is fantastically Canadian. It is a show about a girl that is working on a list of regrets and she is able to time travel to see how things would have worked out had she taken a different path. I mean, seriously. A time travel show about therapy?? Love. And thanks to hulu I can watch it. Wooo!
And look! Another awkward segue!
I am going to take my dear, sweet, most beloved camera into a repair shop in DC today. It is one of those places that have been around since forever and they do on site repairs. They also don’t charge you for an estimate. All of the other repair places I looked into charged you $25 or up just to take a gander and if you agreed to a repair they shipped it off for weeks. I am freaking out that it will be something beyond my means, but it will be what it will be. I can still use the camera- just in manual mode. Which basically means every photo of W will be a blur. heh. I am going to be zen and just put out into the universe my hope: Please let this be a SIMPLE fix. As in a reset button or a quick cleaning. And please don’t let the price of the repair or clean be something that makes me cry.
Vanity Segue: I think I have found something that is helping my acne in the winter skin: tea tree & E antiseptic cream. Have only used it for three days but already there is improvement. And since I think like 4 other people that read this blog have adult acne in the winter I am going to share my find. (& by “share” I mean tell you what it is and where you can get it.) I found it on sale at the grocery store, but you can read about it and buy it from here.
And final segue: ooooooh!! It is Sock it to me week and I can not wait to show off the most awesome and amazing and beautiful socks that arrived. I have never seen anything so special and I feel most lucky and privileged to have such finery on my feet. I’ll be sharing tomorrow. Oh yes these size 13′s have never had it so good!
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Oh good luck at the camera repair shop. I have my fingers crossed for you. Have you ever thought about putting your photog tips up on your blog. I wanna take kick ass photos like you… and now Jen!.. I feel left out.
Loved the segueways. (Side note: wouldn’t it be awesome to own one of those segueway doohickies? I don’t know where I would ride it, but it would be awesome to say I have one.) Hooray for more teeth! We’re still holding fast to the 6 we have for now. Which is fun and stuff. Have a great week!
Elizabeth got better at teeth as she got older. So maybe W is too?
Fingers crossed for camera shop!
Hope your camera fix is quick and cheap! And, I hope W’s remaining teeth are even less bothersome.
I can’t go without a camera either, so I feel your pain and worry about what will be.
E has to be getting a teeth somewhere in the back, and I refuse to stick my finger in his mouth for fear of it never returning whole again. He has been randomly waking up screaming as well as sticking his whole hand in his mouth most of the day.
Saying a prayer for your camera
KNEW that the lack of sleep was going to get to a toofie coming in! YAY!
Yes, we always say “YAY” when we clap too!! W will get the clapping and then he won’t stop. Adam applauds himself for everything with a big smile, it is so stinkin’ adorable. Just in the last month, his clap also now makes noise. He is so funny. Sometimes he claps and then holds his hands up, still wide open, and looks at them both very intensely…
Glad you got some good sleep, may you be blessed with more of the same every night this week!
I’ll say Yay for 5 hours of continuous sleep although if it were me I still think I’d be whining about it. I prefer a good solid 8-10. I know, I’ll have to get over that.
I hope the camera is/was an easy fix.
Woohoo on the five hours of sleep! Hope the camera is a simple and inexpensive fix. And I will be curious to hear more about the tea tree/vit e…I have read some about tea tree oil and have been meaning to try it. Goodness knows I couldn’t make my skin any worse than it already is right now.
We always say “YAY!” when we clap too. What is with that? HA!
Egg claps when he hears people clap on television. Which is crazy to me, because he doesn’t SEE them clapping. I’m just starting to get five hours of sleep at a time consistently. I need to email you about the blog change thing. Remind me!