the day (and night) from you know where
Oh. My. God. I totally quit. Don’t wanna play anymore.
Last night Timmy decided it would be a great idea to not sleep. Pretty much at all. The whole night. He ended up having a very busy day yesterday (Thursday). Jen and Jack watched him in the morning so I could get my hair highlighted, then we headed over to Sharon & Olivia’s for a playdate there. By the time I looked at the clock, it was almost time to get the big boys from school. So no nap, but I figured it would be okay since with the PT/OT thing, he is generally not napping on Tuesdays or Thursdays. And he slept til 8:25am Thursday morning. Wrong. By bedtime, he was a total mess, trantrums, tripping over himself. He even whacked his head on a toy and gave himself a swollen eye (yeah, thats gonna look great for the wedding pictures Sunday!). Well, he didn’t sleep last night. Just didn’t. He was up crying, schutching, whining, screaming, kicking, you name it. I don’t know why. Maybe overtired + lack of papi = no sleep? I tried everything…ignoring, comforting, holding, rocking, laying in his bed, laying in my bed, yelling, threatening, kissing…nothing!!!! So he slept for maybe 3 hrs (not consecutive either) and was just grumpier each time he woke up. But I didn’t cave and give him the papi!! Not that he asked for it, even, but it probably wouldv’e helped. He was so exhausted I think he was a little delirious! Seriously. He was SCREAMING at me things like, "I spray the flowers!", "I want my roly-poly teddy bear!" (he dosen’t have a teddy bear), "I like honey-nut cheerios!" (he dosen’t). If it wasn’t like 4am and maybe if I had actually slept for more than 15 minutes prior, it would’ve been funny. And then to top it off with the sleeping, or lack thereof, he was up for the day at 6:10am. Nope. I called the doctor’s office then to make an appointment for this morning, hoping for a good old raging ear infection. Nope again. He’s totally fine. Let the beatings commence! (okay, before you call CPS, I didn’t lay a finger on the kid). 
In the meantime, Jack decided he wasn’t going to sleep either. He was awake til 3am. Don’t know why. Neither does he. He was a whole lot of fun today too, you can imagine.
I had a slight nervous breakdown at breakfast, being so sick of cleaning up after everyone, all the time. They all seem to think I’m the magic mommy maid. So when they all leave their crap wherever it happens to land, it will magically be cleaned up, washed, and returned to it’s proper place so that when they are looking for it 2 minutes before they are supposed to be someplace (and they only have 2 minutes because even though I asked them to be ready about 20 minutes ago, they were too busy whining and complaining and dawdling about whatever that they couldn’t get ready) it’s amazingly where it should be. I’m all done. Can’t find your (insert item here)__________? Oh, that’s really too bad. Guess you will have to play soccer with one cleat. SO DONE!!!!
Then after going out in the pouring rain to the doctor, dry cleaner, bank, gas station (which, by the way was just the cherry on the cake of my day…. $4.01 per gallon of regular? WTF?) and taking Timmy to his gym class, we come home from class and Timmy proceeds to pee all over the floor, of course getting his sneakers totally soaked with pee too. Yeah. Great, now that will be 7 loads of laundry for today (that are still sitting clean but not folded). Good times!
The day did start to improve from there a little bit. Timmy did take a 2hr nap. I took a 20 minute nap while rocking him. I started working on one of the photo projects for the house. And, the best part…Mom & Ken brought me my two favorite dishes from the Peking Duck House in Chinatown! (crunchy greenbeans with crumbled pork & chicken with walnuts) Yum. Eating right now. And so far Timmy is sleeping. But it’s still early.