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Just a typical morning (when Will is not home, that is). Jenny wakes me up, and our routine is TV and chill time. I was gonna try to make up for lost sleep by factoring in some "couch parenting". That is only possible if Troy is still asleep/in his crib.
I say it that way b/c if he is content to stay in crib and jabber to himself then so be it. When he starts to holler at us then we go get him and the real party begins.
So, I was snoozing in between Jenny coming and telling me all about her show, telling me she went to potty, asking for drink, for food, asking every question ever thought of.
One time when she came to me she had a giant sugar cookie with sprinkles.
She said, all casual between bites,
"I got a cookie".
I assumed that Will (who was hunting) had gotten into cookies and left the tupperware open. She is not in habit of opening containers of food.
I said "ok" to the cookie b/c i think that dentures are cool.
so then Troy started stirring. Then he hollered.
If i had to guess what he wanted to say it would be:
"hey women! i hear you! get me out of here and make me some breakfast! oh yeah, and i pooped myself!"
partially asleep i summoned my daughter to please go talk to her brother. that involves jenny just sitting in his bedroom chair and they cackle at each other. it will usually buy me about 3 minutes. b/c she ends up leaving his room and that makes him mad.
well, that's nice. it lasted much longer this time.
ok. he's mad. ok, finally i must get up and start this party. ok here i go on the count of 3. i'm really going to. ok i'm up.
Getting boy out of crib i notice he has crumbs on his butt. my sleepy brain doesn't think its odd at first b/c i am used to major crumb butt in the highchair.
but then i get confused. ??? wait a minute. oh i see.
"Jenny did you share your cookie with Troy?"
there were cookie crumbs in every nook of his body and every nook of his bed.
i brushed them all into the floor and vacuumed 3 times and then had to change crib sheet (and boy).
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bedtime around here is not quite all puff clouds and rainbows. Jenny has a habit of dragging it on and on, pulling wild tricks and carrying on. Its never a feel good moment when its been over 1 hr of all that jazz, you haven't heard a peep in 5 minutes, so you get a glimmer of hope........... only to suddenly hear Jenny say:"momma can i wake up?"
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Jenny is all about giving her brother and Daddy a hug and kiss. they aren't allowed to go to bed without this special treatment. also Daddy can't leave house for work, hunting, jiu jitsu etc. without his proper goodbye.
there have been several times that later on she will realize she didn't get hug and kiss, and --oh have mercy-- now Daddy is gone or in his bed asleep. there is major breakdown to follow.
also she likes to walk Will to his bed like she is tucking him in.
one time when he didn't get tucked in, then there was the drama breakdown and she said:
"i didn't get to hug and kiss my daddy, and put him in bed! he's not allowed to do that anymore".
also one morning he was up in the kitchen before hunting. it was about 5am. she stirred and so he went and covered her up. then i heard him opening garage and leaving.
enter Jenny into the den with bucket of tears:
jenny--"my daddy is gone! my daddy is gone!"
me-----"he is only going hunting!"
jenny--"i didn't get to give him hug and kiss!!!!"
girl got back into bed and back to sleep, but she was torn up b/c she didn't know that he was leaving the house.
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Last night the kids were in the car watching "horse movie" as we call it---proper name "Spirit".
boy you just never do know what they are gonna say, do ya?
"Mommy why are horses naked all the time?"
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