My nights have been shorter for the last little while. Dekker is waking up earlier (cue the jokes about him waking up sooo early at 9:30 now…) and he’s very agitated right off the bat. So while I used to be able to get him set up with breakfast and then doddle around and get myself ready for the day, I now have to aim to be up earlier and all ready before he makes a sound. His first sounds have recently been angry cries. Long days.
What made the night even shorter was the stinking birds. Have I mentioned the stupid 4 o-clock birds on here before?? Don’t get me wrong. I love living out of the city and hearing the birds and frogs and all that good stuff. But the random flock of whatever that has a party next to my house every morning at 4:00 ticks me off. So we’ve started putting a fan on in our room and it helps drown out the party sounds. However, last night they came early (3:30am) and for some reason, our fan wasn’t on. We were completely exhausted after yesterday and I guess we just forgot to turn it on. So in my “sane” state of mind, I woke Brady up from being out cold and started bugging him, asking if we had fireworks so we could make the birdies sleep. Yup, those are the things I said. “Sleep.” As I got more awake, I realized I had to pee like a race horse, so I did that and was wide awake when I came back to our room. I thought of turning on the fan but had no idea if it had been on to begin with and maybe Brady had turned it off for some reason. So I tried to nudge him awake just a bit and ask. He told me a fairly elaborate story of how the batteries in the remote were dead. Uh huh. Apparently I woke him up too much so he got up to use the washroom and turned the fan on. Oh well, I would have done it myself but at least it got done. Just poor, 4am communication, thats all.
It took me at least a good hour to fall back to sleep. I had fallen asleep originally out of sheer exhaustion from the day before, but was awakened just in time to get all riled up about the day we had.I prayed so hard for peace, and finally found enough to fall asleep.
Dekker and I met Brady at our doctors office this morning to speak with her/alert her to Dekker’s new eye problem. *shivers* I don’t want to say “problem” but everything else sounds lame. It really is just a new challenge. But anyway, you get the picture. We went. I wasn’t sure what to expect, or if she’d even see it. In some places, he is right on point, completely focused, no problem. His eyes are at their worst at home or in the car, where he is very familiar with his surroundings. Lucky for us, he actually really likes the doctors office! So the moment she walked into the exam room, she saw his eyes wandering. While she says herself that she doesn’t have all the optical “lingo,” she did a great assessment of him. She checked him all over for any sign of an illness that could have brought everything on so fast. By the end, she assured us Dekker is in great health, but she could vouch that he wasn’t completely himself. I told her that we would be seeing his eye doctor again on Friday, and she said she would follow up with him at our next prenatal appointment in a week or two. She was very encouraging and seemed happy that we had brought him in, even though his vision isn’t so much in her specific field of work. She commented that his speech had definitely picked up again. He talked and talked with her, and she would look right at him and listen until he was done. She gives him so much value. We felt good leaving, knowing she knew where he stood and that she wanted to know further details.
After the appointment, Brady headed back to work and Dekker and I headed straight home. With the earlier mornings, Dekker is for sure taking two naps every day and he was wiped out. He fell asleep in the car just as we were out of the city. I brought him inside when we got home and put him down to continue his nap. That was two hours ago, and he’s still out. He’s been silent and I’ve been drinking an iced capp and eating lemon timbits. Sue me. It was super delicious.
Big plans for the evening are getting a couple more little things done around the house, and then doing not a whole heck of a lot else. We are all still reeling from last week and its continuing into this week. We need to rest, and we need to rest together.
As long as we remember to turn on the fan…