Yesterday I was at the park with Isaac while Laura waited with Lucy for Alice to get off the park. He was "chasing" me, so I went up the tall slide and waited for him to climb up. Well, he had a stick, "squirt gun", and even after he wasn't holding it, had a little trouble climbing. I don't know if it was the mittens, the winter coat, boots or what, but he pivited off the hard ladder, stepped onto the platform and then fell flat on his back into the deep icy puddle at the bottom.
He wasn't happy. You wouldn't be either if your t-shirt was soaked 1/2 up your shirt at the back with near zero water.
I hugged him and worked to calm him down by doing things like hugging him and asking if he wanted to play on the swings. After about 4-5 minutes he took a couple of gasping breaths, stopped crying and informed me that he "calmed his body down". Then he asked to go on the swings, no wait, the tire swing!
He informed me that he would say "Weee!" every time that I pushed the tire, and he did. Then he said "I love you daddy. And I love Alice. And I love mommy. And I love baby Lucy. And I love everyone in the world because they are so nice to me. And I even love the bad guys because they are nice to me like Kylo Ren."
Our little guy is very much full of love.
Friday, 31 March 2017
Wednesday, 15 March 2017
Wash, Rise, Repeat
Things right now are in a repeating loop. Get up, get the kids food. Let them play, get them out of the house, or snack. Play. Lunch. Play. Think about dinner. Play. Make dinner. Play. Eat. Bath, bed, ba-story (sorry, I wanted another B word).
There is nothing wrong with it, but while being on leave there are no milestones. No weekends, no "Oh, I have a meeting on Wednesday" or anything. So when I can remember if something happens with the kids, I have a hard time remembering if it happened today, yesterday, or a couple of days ago.
Lack of sleep could be a contributing factor to my memory issues.
I feel so lucky at being able to be off. I can help get Alice to / from the bus. Help with activities for Isaac, and help do all the baby stuff with Lucy.
Another thing that it allows me to do is take my time planning on what I'm making for dinner and be able to do things like fresh bread and stew. These aren't things that I'll be able to make after picking kids up from daycare / aftercare and getting home at 6pm. Well, not for that day.
Things are good though. The kids are great. I think that we're all having fun.
There is nothing wrong with it, but while being on leave there are no milestones. No weekends, no "Oh, I have a meeting on Wednesday" or anything. So when I can remember if something happens with the kids, I have a hard time remembering if it happened today, yesterday, or a couple of days ago.
Lack of sleep could be a contributing factor to my memory issues.
I feel so lucky at being able to be off. I can help get Alice to / from the bus. Help with activities for Isaac, and help do all the baby stuff with Lucy.
Another thing that it allows me to do is take my time planning on what I'm making for dinner and be able to do things like fresh bread and stew. These aren't things that I'll be able to make after picking kids up from daycare / aftercare and getting home at 6pm. Well, not for that day.
Things are good though. The kids are great. I think that we're all having fun.
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