Running Commentary

This IS Only a Stage, RIGHT? March 29 2007

Noah was up and down all night with nightmares.

HOrrible terrifying nightmares about…..sticky things.

Thats right. Sticky things.

He came in a got in beside Chris, his usual place. And things were fine, except now I had to pee. While I was peeing Noah strolled in and said he HAD to sleep on my side because his nightmare would not go away. FINE. So we went back to bed and I let him climb in from my side.

Right in the middle of my pillow, all snug as a bug under my duvet.

Huh.

So I slide in beside him and nudge him over a tiny bit…because GOD FORBID he sleep actually in the middle, had a little chat about nightmares and all that, a smooch and I began to doze.

And then he started to kick the duvet off, then he started to kick his one leg up in the air and flop it down on the bed. Then he settled. And we dozed again.  Then I could feel his leg on my, squirm squirm squirm “Noah please stop that” “mommy I am wubbing you, that’s a nice thing”

Finally, Chris took him back to his room and tucked him in, wubbed his back and told him that there were no more sticky things out to get him.

Chris came back, we giggled about the sticky things and then we dozed.

“Daddy? I can’t sleep” says Noah INCHES away from Chris’s face about 15 minutes later.

So climbed in DADDY’S side and immediately went to sleep.

He’s still there, asleep.

He’s snuggled between my pillow and Chris’s covered to his nose in at least one duvet sawing logs like there’s not tomorrow.

Little bugger.

FEFFIE IS IN LOVE WITH AN ALIEN! (said in my best jimmy neutron voice) March 27 2007

Feffie has a new woman. We’ll call her Tracy. (cause that’s her name). She’s visiting from England (alien..get it? get it?) and it in great danger of freezing her face off up there in the frozen tundra with Feffie.
Also, they are totally getting married. This summer. Down here. I AM SO EXCITED! There almost NO details worked out yet. But it’s coming. I know it’s going to be simple. And outside. And HURRAY for Feffie.

Tracy seems fabulous. She heads back across the pond on the 2nd of April to tie up some loose ends (get rid of the body in her basement) and then she’s back.

I am truly excited for them.

Congrats Feffie and Tracy.
xo

WTF is going on with the photos I try to post lately? This is NOT how it’s supposed to look.

argh!

Lack Of ZZZZZZ’s March 26 2007

At 2am I was up and chatting with Brit. Insomnia once again. GOD how I hate it.  I can’t take over the counter sleep aids, they totally freak me out.  I usually just take a few melatonin capsules and off to dream land I go.  Not so last night. Last night I took my pills and then flipped and flopped.

So I was up chatting with Brit until the thunder storm knocked the power out at my house making my internet connection die. Then I was in bed tossing and turning until after 3, Noah (of course) and Chris beside me snoring like there’s no tomorrow.

Everyone’s clock was flashing so then I was paranoid that everyone would be late.  I did doze off at some point but not a deep sleep cause I remember talking to Chris before he left at 6am.

Brendan is off to school, and it’s just me and Noah now.  This would be one of those days I wish he could take himself to school , or that the bus still came to pick him up.

Could this post be anymore boring. Geez I should write about a trip to the store or something. Want to see my shopping list?

The good news is that I am a VERY part time working mom again. The new boss (who is SO not going to last) has me on one day this week, and that was yesterday.  So I am home for another week with the kids.

I think I’ll just cut this short now before we get any MORE boring. If that’s even possible.

Maybe I Should Stop Feeding the Kids Acid. March 24 2007

Last night was such a weird night.
The kids started a new session of swimming lesson (noah has graduated to the BIG pool) and Brendan is taking the level 5 for the 3rd time,cause he gets bored near the end of misses too many to pass. You see Brendan is a not PERFECT at swimming so he wants to quit. Living here, near 150 lakes that is not an option. I will keep taking him until he finished up to the life saving levels and then he can quit if he wants.

Brendan’s allergies were really acting up before bedtime, I think there must’ve been a lot of chlorine in the pool this time. So we gave him an allergy pill and sent him to bed.

A hour or so later, while Chris and i were enjoying the couch, Brendan came out of his room and went to the washroom, when he was done he came half way down. I asked him how he was feeling and he whispered VERY quietly the he was ok. His voice sounded very odd, and Chris was worried that Brendan’s allergies where worse and we called him down to be sure. I could tell when he got to the bottom of the stairs that he wasn’t awake, he is prone to night terrors so we’ve seen him in his wacked out state before. Usually he mumbles some nonsense and then goes back to bed, only to come down about 5 minutes later completely unaware that he was JUST down and babbling.

Lastnight was different. He came down and walked right over to the couch, I asked him how his throat felt, he answered “ok”

And then he closed his eyes and was kind of acting like he was asleep. Like his eyes were closed. Chris said “Do you know who I am” (always a sure test) Brendan answered “No” And so he began to walk back towards the stairs, we said good night to him and watched him go back to bed…only he didn’t go back to bed. at the last second he turned on the like in the rec room and went down there, I had inflated an air bed down there during the day to see if it really did have a leak and I thought it would be hilarious if he just plunked down on that and went to sleep, I would cover him and leave him. After a few seconds we didn’t hear anything and I jumped up to go and find him. He was all the way down in the BASEMENT. I went down and took him by the hand and walked him back up three different sets of stairs to bed (I didn’t want him to wake up in the BASEMENT he hates it down there) I asked him what he was doing down there and he mumbled something about them not being open. I tucked him into bed and that was the last we heard from him. Man that freaks me out.

he must’ve been dreaming about skiing, at our hill you go to the basement to put on your boots and stow your regular boots.

The rest of the night was uneventful. This morning I woke up with Noah beside me. We chatted briefly and he let me know that he had to seek refuge with me on account of his lobster nightmare (Brendan used to have this one too). He dreamed that there were bad lobsters every where and that there was a crab in his BUMMY! It was dead a sticky (the green ones are VERY sticky you know) but daddy pulled it off and killed all the evil lobsters, but he didn’t kill the friendly whales, they gave Noah a ride.

I think it might be time to install latches on our screen door, these nocturnal adventures could get serious.

Seeking Advice. March 22 2007

I have an autistic nephew. He’s 3. And is pretty much a nightmare behaviorally speaking. He and Noah are very close in age and we like to get them together to play. Sadly I try to keep this interaction limited because it affects Noah. Example, we were just together the other day at my Mom’s house for cake (which I baked but did not eat for I am on the LENT Diet) and the boys were running around having fun. They do laps of my moms house, this is really the only thing that the nephew EVER does. Noah loves this activity because it is something he only does with nephew. At some point they stumbled across Noah’s bike helmet accidentally left at Nanny’s house since the fall. Noah was thrilled as he has been begging for 2 wheeler (no training wheels mommy I DON’T NEED THEM!) for a bit. And he came dashing towards me with it, Nephew saw it (has always been inlove with that helmet and even stole if for a week or so a year ago) and immediately threw himself on Noah. And violently yanked it from his hand. Noah does not fight back much when it comes to Nephew because he knows what’s coming. The screaming. I mean typical autism right? High pitched squeal..full on melt down. and the entire time Noah is terrified. He borrows my mom ear muffs because he hates the screaming, it scares him. And then he sits in my arms or my Dad’s arms and hides from him.

Other than this, the do have fun to a point. I can see Noah loosing patiences with him. Noah will be trying to talk to someone or everyone and nephew loudly repeats everything he says, to Noah that is not autism that is COPYING HIM AND THAT IS JUST BEING MEAN!

At the end of the visit which always is ended by some huge meltdown induced by my sister stopping nephew from clobbering Noah for whatever reason, Noah is stressed. And will exhibit some of nephews behaviours that night and sometimes the next day. And I kind of want to strangle him.

he mostly chooses the yelling or grunting to emulate. Charming. And I have a hugely hard time trying to explain to him why nephew does it and why Noah shouldn’t.

How do you explain autism and it’s behaviour issues to 4 yr old.