Sat. March 22
We’ve had full days! And are all suffering a bit from sleep
depravation. I woke up a few nights ago
and couldn’t figure out what had roused me.
After 35 minutes I still couldn’t get to sleep and then I heard Collin
just choking on his sobs. I sprinted
upstairs and found him just standing in the middle of his room completely
hysterical. I couldn’t believe it. He was crying so hard he was coughing and
choking and hyperventilating. I was
shaken up but help him and tried to calm him.
I felt terrible that I didn’t hear him earlier. It just killed me that he was up there all
alone so scared. I took him down and
Blake joined us on the couch. He finally
calmed down and curled up in my arms to fall back asleep. I don’t know what happened exactly. I am afraid that watching Mupett Treasure
Island may have been the trigger for some nightmares. My Collin!
I am sorry to see you so sad! We
made a bed in our room on the floor and when I told him as I put him down he
said, so like everything was normal, “I think the mattress would be much more
comfortable.” J
But I laid down with him for a bit. He
coughed all night, His throat sounded so
swollen it sounded like it was going to cough right up. He jumped up after a few hours and Blake
brought him right into bed. They cuddled
and slept quite nicely. I didn’t. I don’t know why I can’t sleep with them in
bed. But I can’t. Collin got up the next night, but came down
to us since I told him that we are here for him but he needs to come to us when
he needs help. He had a whole list of
reasons he was out that night. J But I took him back up
to bed and he was fine. This morning he
came in early again. So, we may have to
take a while to get back into normal night-time sleeping. We are all tired though!
Thursday was the first day of Spring. And it felt like it. Sarah invited us to go to the Botanical
Gardens with them and it was perfect!
There were hundreds of daffodils all bright and happy to welcome in
Spring. The kids played for a long time
on the pirate sand hill. Avind got down
to for the fun and just loved squeezing fistfuls of wet sand, often stuffing
his mouth full of it. He crawled up and
scooted down and found some nice squishy mud too. It made me happy to let him play and be
outside to explore the world a bit.
Yesterday I felt like I spent the whole day doing visiting
teaching. Which is funny because it was
only an hour of actually visiting. But
it was the back and forth of taking the kids to be watched and picking them up
and it really seemed to take all day. We
did end the eveing with dinner on the patio at Abuelos with the
Kyriopolous’. It really was nice. But, Avind has reached the point where he is
not restaurant friendly anymore. It is
almost not worth it. He is soooooooooo
wiggly. I have people comment to me all
the time, “wow. He really moves a
lot. He is really active isn’t he?” So, I guess I make busy kids. He seems less difficult than Collin was, but
then again maybe I just expect it now so it doesn’t seem as overwhelming.
This morning was our first day of Collin’s official sports
career. :)
We began soccer. His team, our team
since Blake and I are the coaches, is the Tigers. We have 10 3-4 year olds. I have never seen so many little people with
little balls. And so many parents with
such high hopes and expectations for their kids. It was a little difficult to figure out what
was going to work. Blake began as we had
planned with some drills but I was not prepared for tears, and refusal to stay
on the field and the clinging to mom. I
should have, I know 3 year olds, but I just didn’t realize that those things
would happen. The parents would get so
flustered and try to make them stay saying, “he loves soccer! He has been so excited! I don’t understand what is going on!” But it makes sense. This is a totally new situation and if it
felt a bit overwhelming for me, I can’t imagine how it was for the little
ones. I suddenly felt the light come on. We needed to make this like primary or
nursery. It needed to be a game and be
fun. So, I took over and became silly
and funny and talked high and played red light green light and follow the
leader and had races and was silly and it totally worked. I am so glad!
but it was a LONG 45 minutes for sure.
I think 3 is really too young to do a team sport. But, here we are. Because Collin really did want this. It will be interesting to see how he likes it
through the season. It was hard to give
him much attention with all that was going on.
Maybe that is good though. For
him to not always be the center of my attention. Blake played some more with him when practice
was over and he loved that. We celebrated with an exploration drive and then
Chick Fil A. Althought today Collin
claimed he didn’t like those chicken nuggets.
AHhhhhhhh! I am sure my parents
figure this is payback. I am getting
what I deserve.
The best part of the day was a good ol’ afternoon nap with
Blake. And when I say nap, I mean
nap. :) It only works during the day when we both don’t fall asleep before we can get anywhere. Later, I got to do some work in the yard
while Collin and Blake played Pirates on the Xbox. Avind joined me soon and
once again enjoyed the rocks and dirt. I
love watching him discover things. It is
just delightful to see how wonderful simple things are to a 11 month old. It is all so fascinating! We had dinner with
some families in the ward and it really was great. Blake had a huge wrestling match with all the
kids and there was utter chaos and lots of peals of laughter and screams. And Bro. Bell got Avind to take his first 3
steps! Oh, it made my heart jump! I love to see my babies do their firsts! He did it once more a bit later for
Blake.
I was feeling a bit nostalgic about Collin and watched some
videos of him when he was 19-23 months.
Oh my! He was perfect! It made me cry and I missed him. I missed my little buddy. It gets so much more complicated as he grows
up. I still adore him but now I see his
weaknesses. And maybe even worse is that
he is starting to see mine. But he was
such an amazing talker! I know everyone
tells me how well he speaks and always has, but I don’t think I realized just
how out of the ordinary he was. Now
though I hear other 2 year olds and I can see that he was way ahead of the
curve there. I love to hear him
talk. Okay, well most of the time. J
I need to make sure I don’t expect the same thing from Avind. And that I don’t try to push him or feel
disappointed if he doesn’t do the same. It really is hard not to compare
children to one another. I never want to
make one of them feel inferior as I compare one of their weaknesses to the
other one’s strength.
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