Da Mamas
That is yours truly. I am "da Mamas." It is very charming, how Daisy makes things plural. She plays a game now where she puts her rubber ducky on a ledge and perform "Humpies." It goes like this: "Humpy Dumpy had a wall. Humpy Dumpy, one, two, pash!" (That last means "splash," and that's where the duck gets to fall off the wall.)
She is infatuated with Mark's KISS book. She identifies Ace and Gene (pronounced "GEEN" with a hard "g") fairly reliably. She likes to give hugs to the KISS members' images, apparently not put off at all by the horrific faces they're making. She points to a skull in one of the pictures and says, "Baby!" She points to their flashy stage lights and says, "Sun!" She will sit and read this book for hours, hugging it and pointing to the various characters. It is very funny. She does call them "Tubbies" from time to time; yes, she has seen the Teletubbies, I will admit it, I will admit it. There is some vague connection between KISS and the Tubbies going on in her brain.
This girl is waking up at midnight (one night ago) or 1:30 (last night) and absolutely refusing to go back to sleep-- despite the fact that we have the most beautiful bedtime ritual in the world. She often asks for "bed," she gives us goodnight hugs, she seems totally content to be placed down in her crib, awake, holding her monkey. She goes to sleep and sleeps for five hours. And then she wakes up and the horrors begin.
So-- I could talk about that, I suppose. But there is not much to say. I am definitely suffering health-wise (all day today I had a pounding stress headache, for example, and I feel dizzy, and somewhat sick to my stomach-- all of which I'm pretty sure is sleep deprivation, not an actual illness).
But I guess I'd rather focus on "Humpies," and the adorable little sentences she's stringing together, and how she can say all of the "Ring around the Rosy" nursery rhyme with only a few words left out here and there.
She is infatuated with Mark's KISS book. She identifies Ace and Gene (pronounced "GEEN" with a hard "g") fairly reliably. She likes to give hugs to the KISS members' images, apparently not put off at all by the horrific faces they're making. She points to a skull in one of the pictures and says, "Baby!" She points to their flashy stage lights and says, "Sun!" She will sit and read this book for hours, hugging it and pointing to the various characters. It is very funny. She does call them "Tubbies" from time to time; yes, she has seen the Teletubbies, I will admit it, I will admit it. There is some vague connection between KISS and the Tubbies going on in her brain.
This girl is waking up at midnight (one night ago) or 1:30 (last night) and absolutely refusing to go back to sleep-- despite the fact that we have the most beautiful bedtime ritual in the world. She often asks for "bed," she gives us goodnight hugs, she seems totally content to be placed down in her crib, awake, holding her monkey. She goes to sleep and sleeps for five hours. And then she wakes up and the horrors begin.
So-- I could talk about that, I suppose. But there is not much to say. I am definitely suffering health-wise (all day today I had a pounding stress headache, for example, and I feel dizzy, and somewhat sick to my stomach-- all of which I'm pretty sure is sleep deprivation, not an actual illness).
But I guess I'd rather focus on "Humpies," and the adorable little sentences she's stringing together, and how she can say all of the "Ring around the Rosy" nursery rhyme with only a few words left out here and there.
posted by Sarah Goss at 8:33 PM
2 Comments:
Poor Mamas! Hang on. Things will improve.
What happens if you put her to bed earlier? And then you go to bed at the same time?
Happy new year, sweeties.
Thank you, Marguerite... it always makes me feel better when other "mamases" tell me that these things pass. And I think we should try what you are saying... to go to bed earlier. The main problem is my teaching job... that I use the time after she goes to sleep to grade and prep. But still, I COULD go to bed earlier than I do. This will take some serious self-discipline!
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