My Hailey came for a visit today with her kids. She’s gotten into the wonderful habit of bringing me my drink – an earl grey tea with two cream and two sugars from Tims – and she even brought along food for lunch, which was a total surprise, but I welcomed it!
She was very patient with Dekker’s attitude, and while he’s had better days playing with other kids, he did quite well considering the challenge of not having his full sight. I made a point of getting him up before they arrived this morning. I’ll clarify, he was awake, but just chatting quietly. I often give him a bit more time on his own before getting him up, but since I know how much he dislikes his patch being put on, I figured we could do the whole screaming bit before friends arrived. He did ok with the application this morning. He wasn’t screaming or fighting or thrashing like on day one, but he had this sad, nervous, “not again, ok, mom?” look on his face that broke my heart. I held it together while I stuck the patch on but had a little cry with him afterwards. I hate it too, man. On the upside, his cries after putting on (or taking off) his patch are shortening. Also, the little bit of redness around his eye is going down! So like I’ve said in recent posts, small victories. He was settled into eat breakfast when Hailey and the kids showed up.
We had a really good afternoon, I would say. Three out of the four kids had naps, so with that as a completely valid excuse, the house stayed relatively quiet. The littlest one of the group, Zaden, hasn’t been sleeping well these days, especially away from home. It didn’t help that our house was ridiculously hot today and we could NOT get the heat under control. Baby Z was stripped down to a diaper and Hailey made him a bottle while I bounced him like mad, trying to settle him until his milk came. As soon as it was mixed I put his bottle in his mouth. He’s an independent kid and is fine to drink his milk on his own, but he just lay on my shoulder and sucked it back. I miss that SO much! So I held him for a little bit until we were both overheating. I lay him down on the floor and moments later…
He was sooo peaceful!! He slept that way for probably a half hour-ish until one of the others woke up and we started moving around, packing them up to head home. He was pretty subdued.
Once they left, I lay in bed and caught up on some YouTube videos and rested the belly for a bit. I’m not super sore today, but I fell asleep with some light but painful contractions, and woke up with them as well. So I’m going to be extra nice to baby girl tonight. Brady came home a bit later than usual but nothing too crazy, so we had a suuuper delicious summer meal of fries, chicken strips, and raw carrots. Dekker LOVED those carrots today! I may have to pick up some more tomorrow.
Tomorrow is the first day in a while that nothing is really planned and Brady and I are home together! However, as I mentioned, we need to grocery shop, pretty badly actually. Not that we’re out of food, but we’re out of a few necessities. So we may all spend the morning together, and when Deks goes down for a nap, Brady will go paint the second coat on the crib and I may head to Saskatoon to grocery shop.
Or maybe we’ll put it off one more day and duck into Saskatoon on Sunday afternoon… Who knows.
Cookie dough and a bath. Sooo ready!