And now I’m pinned.
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And now I’m pinned.
So we ran out for breakfast this morning at the local diner. Aiden is voracious for their eggs and pancakes.
Then we tried to get Salt and a snow shovel as well as water for the house. The latter was the only hit as apparently salt and shovels were sold out EVERYWHERE by Thursday.
All of this and we got home at 1pm. Late brunch, but still a snack. Aiden is down to sleep at 1:15. We let him sleep until 3:30 pm.
BAAAAD IDEA.
It takes us from 8:15 until 10:15 to get him to actually sleep.
I’m going to hope that he’ll sleep until 6 tonight.
Big Edit: My boy is not on a breathing tube. I couldn’t come up with the term for an Inhaler Spacer. Sorry for the scare.
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All of my flow seems trapped at the pipe between the road and the house. It’s sort of cordoned off.
So I’m going to refer to this as Water-Gate.
Anyway…
Last evening we made a trip to “Red Bullseye Store” and got a case of 6 gallon containers of purified water. (I now know that it takes 2.5 gallons to flush a toilet.
This morning we ran to Top Market and got 2 5-gallon jugs of drinking water. I tried last evening boiling down some fresh fallen snow and then putting it through the Britta water filter. Even top layer snow was kind of scary looking and when I put the boiled down snow into the filter; I think I heard it whimper… or scream.
Planned dinner last night was Andrei’s famous Spaghetti and Sauce-Meat. With the discovery of water lacking yesterday.. that got pushed off. We decided to acquire food from the finest of France, “Les Arches d’Or.”
This evening however, I was hell bent on making the dinner come together.
I think I was able to do dinner on 1/2 gallon of water. And my conservation efforts worked miracles.
The pot the spaghetti cooked in was the lower pot of the steamer for the vegetables. The spaghetti pot drained into the sauce meat pot for cleaning purposes.
In general all of the dishes have been fairly well rinsed and can be cleaned completely with a damp wash cloth and some soap.
Dinner was appreciated by all.
So… tonight, H & a play with Bubble Wrap. “Buh-bool” is his newest word. He’s picking up a new word almost every other day. And they aren’t easy ones. This week’s have been “Puppy”, “Snow” and “Bubble”. Snow makes me very happy, because it is a consonant cluster. Hopefully, this wont mess up his eventual study of Japanese.
While on the topic of the little “a”… I showed them Madagascar last night. Amusingly; when the “Move It” song came on; Aiden started to dance. Real dancing. Bouncing up and down to the music, twisting his hips, and swinging his arms.
But the real story comes from Wednesday and Thursday night.
Many have scoffed at the fact that we put Aiden down ‘manually’ every night. This means we are in his bedroom with him from the time we intend him to go to sleep until he’s asleep. At one time this could be upwards of 2 1/2 to 3 hrs. We got an iPod speaker system and programmed up some sleepy music. This came as a result at marvelling how amazingly DayCare could get him down for noon time nap. AND!!! AND!!! have it stick for 2 hrs.
So… this has added to the effort which has been improving. I’d say over the last month we’ve gotten him down in 15-20 minutes. And truthfully… I really don’t mind spending bedtime with him 🙂
But.. the real struggle is getting him to stay down. Like clockwork he tended to wake up at 10pm and 1am. At 10 pm I’d work to get him down again. At 1am… I usually was in bed and just picked him up and put him back into bed with us.
Wednesday Aiden wandered out while I was in the bathroom after H had gone to sleep. C picked him up. I came out and took him. We went back in his room. I asked if he needed to be changed and he made a yes-ish noise. I turned to the closet; fetched what I needed, turned around and he was out again. Normally, getting him back down after he’s gotten out of bed is very difficult. This was an amazing change. He didn’t seem wet… so I let him sleep. At about 12:30 he woke again. He looked at me and made his sign for drink. (He makes the ASL sign for food and tips his head back as if he’s slamming a drink). I asked him to wait in bed while I refilled his cup. Again.. this is something we wish for that never happens. Well, until Wednesday. I brought him the cup, he took a sip and went back to sleep. I turned in assuming he’d not really gone back to sleep and I’d hear from him within 15 minutes or so. Or would I. When I heard him cry at the gate for our bedroom door I checked the clock and it was 3:15 am. A new Aiden record. Glee.
Until Thursday. Aiden slept in until 5:50 am. I get up at 6am typically. If I can get Aiden to stay in his bed until 6 am regularly. I consider that a complete win.
Last night was about 1:15am. About normal. But… I really think we’re making great progress. As for tonight… well.. it’s almost 8pm… So we’ll see how that went shortly.
No water… No real social life. Cancelled one of the few social events of the past 5 months that I have.
But things are going.
Fingers x’ed
Oh yes. One more thing…
Aiden is now fully capable to handle his inhaler. He can shake it, insert it in the breathing tube and knows where to press. He’s not quite strong enough on his own. He’s a marvellous growing person.
Still shaking the last vestiges of June-Goo ’08.
Tues/Thurs was the worst of this infestation. Which was really weird because I was utterly down for the count both days yet was functional in the office on Wednesday. Very weird.
Despite my hatred of the growing police state we live in, I signed away my life for some Pseudophedrine. The only think that kicks the crap out of severe congestion and flu for me.
The reason you have to sign for it now, is because some morons decided it was a great substance with which to make methamphetimines. And since the current US government treats its people as more likely to commit a crime than be honest, the drugs are no longer over the counter.
Amphetamines were known by another term in the 70s. Speed. Pseudophedrine is in fact related to amphetamines.
Which leads me back to this post.
We got in from Avenue Q last night around 11:30. I pretty much fell over in exhaustion congested to the back of my head at midnight. But not before taking to Pseudophedrine. At about 2:45 I woke up. Jittery and WIDE AWAKE.
This is not going to be very conducive for the rest of my day or weekend. I’m solo parenting “a” this afternoon and evening while “H” does mass. I obviously must be awake and focussed. This is humous while I sit here on a Saturday before 6am scratching at the feeling of the hair on my arms because I feel slightly like a strung out junky.
I suppose the good side of this is that I only get this wired on the stuff when it’s reaching the end of its usefulness. Translation: If I take it easy today (and its a non-work day) I should be healthy by the time I go to sleep.
This would be exceedingly good because the mantra I have this weekend is, “When I awake tomorrow, Grecian travelers will be en route home.”
I normally don’t get to bed until about midnight. Of late I toss and turn throughout the night. I’ve been able to see most hours on my clock during the night from waking up. To be honest… a good bit of waking has been from some well placed kicks from a tiny foot.
Last night however, I went down hard. No clue why. For the first time in quite a long time, I slept until my alarm. This is interesting to me because I usually wake on my own an hour before it goes off.
My guess is that the tiny foot creature had a sound sleep.
The downside of sleeping through to alarm is that I have no recollection of any of my dreams at all. I am pretty sure I had them. Yes, pushing on my brain at the moment; I can remember something about a magic store (that had no magic tricks in it).
So.. not too bad. 7 hrs of sleep. Got into a dream state.
I wonder if it’s this “new pillow from Pacific Coast Feather Company.”
Hmmn
Edit: Yes, yes… make sure you have the right name of the company.