Get better soon, sj!

Vavavoom, Tep!

Sean, I wish you weren't in the club with me. May your mother's treatment be fast and thorough and you not have to think about it.

This just in: COLDS ON HALLOWEEN SUCK.

It feels like insult added to the end of October injury. Lillian's sick, I'm feeling vaguely icky, and I'm at home watching her instead of at work earning money, and we don't get to go trick or treating as planned.

I'd stomp my foot, but she's asleep, and that might wake her.

This just in: COLDS ON HALLOWEEN SUCK.

WROD!

signed,
fighting off a cold and losing

Happy Birthday Daniel!

Happy Anniversay, Reasons!

Happy Halloween, Everybody!

Colds suck in general. Everybody at work is sick. We think that I pissed the doctor off so much by pointing out how stupid it was to order us all to lay in 3 months of supplies that she uncorked some bird flu in the ventilation system.

Parentifistas? For the past 3 nights, Mallory has refused to go to bed. He's normally perfect about going to bed; we have a whole ritual and he normally smiles happily and nestles in between 7:30 and 8:00. Starting Sunday night, though, he's just refused. When we start the ritual, he starts howling and thrashing and throwing a tantrum. The tantrum continues nonstop, no matter what we try, until we give up and go to bed around 11:00...at some point after that he either knocks himself out or passes out. The only thing that stops the tantrum is rocking and watching Baby Einstein, which I don't really want to encourage...but even so, once that stops it's back to the tantrums.

I have theories: Daylight Savings (but wouldn't that work the other way?); staying up late Saturday night; Space Monkeys. But no clue, and I feel so bad for him.

My theory is that DST literally sucks the energy right out of you to re-charge the sun.

No, seriously. I am so ridiculously exhausted with no rational explanation for it. All I want to do is sleep for a thousand years. None of this life crap. Just sleep. Sleep, and maybe some tea.

It was twilight at 4:30.

How do people live here?

My utterly non-parent opinon is cutting teeth or some other discomfort. The rocking/einstein distract him, but when he's just lying there the irritation makes him buggy.

It was twilight at 4:30.

How do people live here?

It's like that here on the East Coast, too, since DST.

Raq, it could be a growth spurt, or other random toddler phenomena. Is he falling asleep in your arms? (You mentioned "nestling in".) He can't climb out of the crib, right? I would suggest continuing the bedtime ritual as much as you can, and then depositing him in the crib with a firm "good night" and let him cry it out.

We went with the increasing increments thing when the kids did this: Go in the first time after five minutes of nonstop crying. Next time, ten minutes, etc. Don't pick him up, just pat him, lay him back down (if you can), and say good night again. After a night or two he should get the picture. It sucks, but it works. If you're committed to him going to sleep on his own, and getting the idea of bedtime, that is, which I adamantly was.

waves weakly

Have flu. Well, have something that is causing me to shiver, sweat, & have chills, so I'm caling it the flu.

Also, plz to be adding me to Buffistas what need to be wrapped in bubble wrap. Last night, I stabbed myself so hard on a piece of ice (it was frozen to the freezer bottom, I was having a sickly cleaning fit) that the wound is a quarter-inch deep and a half-inch long. Ouch.

lays in supply of bubble wrap

Am also sick. Will make chicken soup with ginger and cellophane noodles for dinner tonight. yummy and easy.

Hivemind question: what's a classier word than "free"? I thought about "gratis", but thought that was pretentious. I need to say that we don't charge the normal fees if the student is part of a particular program, but want an easier, shorter way to say it.