October 29, 2017
Bradley thought that 3:30 in the morning would be a good time to start our day and was a bit confused that I seemed to not agree with his determined start of the day. But after some coaxing, he finally closed his eyes and went back to sleep until seven. At seven he came bounding into our room and for a few minutes it really seemed like he might settle down and go back to sleep in the middle of our bed. But I was very wrong. He was completely done with this whole sleep experiment, and he and I started our day. Once he had his medicine, he agreed that he was hungry and when I offered Eggo waffles, he decided that those were a good plan, and ate them up.
When he went back to the table later he would eat a Fiber One Chocolate Chip bar. He thought he needed to follow with a popsicle, we didn’t agree of course, and he tried to compromise with pudding, but he just really wanted a popsicle, so pudding wouldn’t do. He finally left the kitchen rather than finish the pudding. That’ll show me!
In the afternoon, we took Bradley to get a Halloween costume, because better late than never definitely applies in our house. He’s going to be Iron Man, because he’s a popular size and that’s about all that was left out there. I couldn’t find Curious George or George Pig anywhere, and when I could find it, not in Bradley’s size. So, Iron Man it is. And that’s not a bad choice, Iron Man’s a pretty good superhero, so he’ll be a fun costume for Bradley.
Then we went to get him a new case for his IPad, because my son thought it would be very cool to grab the bowl that his sister had full of water on the counter, and pour it all over his IPad and the counter. Perhaps he learned a new word or two from his frustrated mom; but hey, puddles in the kitchen are never pretty or fun.
Back home again for meds and pizza. My little man loves his pizza, when all else fails he will get excited by pizza every time. Tonight was no different, except tonight he was also so very tired. Maybe he didn’t make the driving part of the drive, but he rode the drive and it sure was tough on his little body. So maybe he wanted to eat more, but as he starts to get tired, he starts to yawn, his body starts to do weird things...sometimes it seems that his esophagus starts to attack a bit, so as he starts to swallow more, yawn more, I cut off his food intake and tried to encourage the whole area to calm down.
It was off to a bath then, but before we turned on the water, he got a quick haircut. In case you didn’t know, he absolutely hates haircuts. He screams bloody murder, like to the point that I wonder that we haven’t had a visitor knocking on our door already. Enough that we have made mention to the neighbors situated within earshot that he hates haircuts, you know just in case. So he’s yelling “Done!” Not even bothering with signs, just flat out yelling “Done!” And “Nooo!” Heehee, he is really verbally funny during his fight, but when it is all said and done, he looks really, really cute. We have tried everything with him and these haircuts: more often, less often, quieter clippers, smaller, more powerful for quicker, at the shops, with clippers, with scissors, holding an IPad, not holding one, with one of his favorite toys, one of the shops toys, we’d go to a special shop, but there isn’t one around here. Turns out, my son just hates haircuts.
So as we pull him out of the bath we realize it is only 6:30... way too early for bedtime. Only, Bradley had other ideas and crashed out not ten minutes later. Ugh!!! Drag, no rest for the wicked! So we take him back for meds figuring it will wake him up a bit...barely woke up for it. So he came back to the couch with Dad, sitting with Dad and his puppy, and immediately went back to sleep. Sigh... And so it goes. He is not one to keep awake when he is tired nor is he one to get to sleep when he is not willing to sleep...this little guy runs the ship in this house, he just occasionally chooses to let his schedule and plans match mine and make me think I am controlling anything other than medicine, diapering and meal prep. That boy controls every minute I do or do not sleep. Holy smokes, that was quite the revelation to make for sure. Haha.
All in all, a great weekend, a looong weekend, and now a quiet night at our house. I’m pretty sure Bradley will call a meeting a little later, but when he goes to school, I’ll drop Sydney and come home for a much needed nap before heading to Agoura Hills and the music shop to hopefully get Sydney’s Horn fixed. Wish me luck, um on basically all of the above.
The last Sunday in the 31 For 21 Blog Challenge, Acceptance and Awareness because it’s just an extra chromosome for goodness sake!!
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