Oh, jeez, I'm sorry!
Ages have passed, and I've not posted! I'm sorry. It's not even like I didn't have time, I just buried myself in my Sims game (though I'm pretty sure that it displeased J....), and between that and childcare and work (I do disappear totally during worktimes, which are weekends,), I have failed in my duties to update.
So, since I last posted, a few things have happened. L has noticed his arms and legs, and begun to smile. He likes to watch his feet as he kicks them, and he's stopped hitting himself in the side of his head, and likes to try to suck on his fists (he's getting better at it). We're also trying to get him to stay asleep at night, by keeping him awake during the day. Not all day, obviously, but at least six or seven hours during the day, keeping naps down to four hours or so. This has been fun for him-- he rather likes the freefalling sensation and turning flips like we've been doing. (It messes with his inner ear, and scares him enough that he wakes up real well. He loves it.)
So, it turns out that J has been unable to quash the feelings of territorialism, and she doesn't like it when M and I sleep together without her. This does have a couple of complications, like we generally need at least one person to be out of the "loop", so to speak, so that they can take care of the baby, so this is a little unfair, but I completely understand. Like a dog barking at the other dog across the street-- no threat, but still inspires horrible irrational feelings. I've been in the same sort of spot, and it makes sense to me.
Also, I can use the excuse to stop shaving. Bwahahaha. (I hate shaving. Even my legs and armpits.)
I'm not real clear on how M feels about it, though.
I've been studying the dynamic between K and Mj, lately, too. Mj is about a year older than K, and is a completely completely different person. Think Garfield and Odie, kind of completely different. K loves Mj and wants to play with him and thinks he's great and is always wanting to get in on whatever Mj is doing, and wants to do stuff with him-- and Mj is only interested in playing with K when K has finally given up and gone to do something by himself. K is a people person, Mj isn't.
The baby has cradle crap. (J calls it that, and I find that extremely appropriate.) We managed to get it off his head once, last week, but it's returned since then.
Oh, money. Jeez. We've been having such a problem with it here lately. Not too much, but just the matters of when what bills are due is hard! J has determined that she's giong to need a job between now and when she goes to her EMT training course. The book studying has been going well, of course. It's very interesting, of course, and we're nearing completion of it. I think we've got terrorist attacks and seven kinds of reviews left.
So, K and Mj only watch Caillou and Curious George on Netflix. We are sick to death of these shows. And they will not be deterred. They'll watch other things after we force the issue, K was totally into Sonic the other day, but once it was over, "Caillou, Caillou!"
Argh, kid!
So, with the kids, I'm beginning to realize I'm in a little over my head. I've got the lightest set of rules between the three adults, and I'm never sure what to do when they just make me angry as opposed to doing something actually wrong, and determining how to punish is always kind of confusing for me.... I tell them off in the big loud angry voice, and that usually works, but when it doesn't, I don't know what to do. K, especially, doesn't do anything like standing in the corner very well, he's too young and too much a mover and wiggler.
Oh, and Mj is a conniving little turd. He has a big sister at his mother's house, who has apparently trained him well in the arts of ratting to get someone in trouble, rubbing one's toys in the other's face and other general unpleasantries, and I dislike this very much. I tell him off. I do have to tell him off regularly, because he'll act as though K has hurt him, and then I turn his own rules on him. Eventually he'll catch on, he's pretty smart like that.
K, of course, also needs to learn how and when to leave Mj alone, and that Mj isn't necessarily a people person and won't want to play a lot of the time.
We're also working on weaning K off his binky (I still call it a paci), and potty training. He's got a pretty good idea as to how it works, and what to do, but he doesn't want to, so he doesn't.
I'm sleepy, all of a sudden. It's been a lovely catch up. Take care!
