I am alone in the house for three whole hours.
My three year old and eighteen months year old are both in daycare. My husband, Adam is now at work.
The last three days have been noisy. Leo nor Roma attend daycare on Friday’s. Then there was the weekend and Martin Luther King Jr day, yesterday. The noise seemed to increase as the days rolled on. It was quite something.
Roma is in the habit of copying everything that Leo does. So if he decides to go screaming through the house pushing a truck along she will suit. Cute to watch but deafening too.
The weather has been wet so we couldn’t even take them to the park, to let off some of that steam. I then thought why don’t we take them for a walk around the neighborhood, even though I really didn’t want to venture out. I am so tired. The last three nights I have been waking up during the early hours unable to get back to sleep, right away. I am drained and just exhausted.
Yesterday I had had enough of being indoors. It wasn’t raining so we all got dressed for our trip to the park.
The slides were wet, the grass was muddy and the swings which were dry did not interest the kids. Still, Leo and Roma had a good time.
We came home, had lunch and put Roma down before going downstairs and watching Monster Inc. Adam and I seemed more excited than Leo. He hasn’t seen it before. We have. It’s a great movie. Once we started the film Leo sat riveted while Adam and I drifted into sleep from time to time. It was like we were playing tag sleep. Every time I looked over at Adam he was sleeping, he said the same with me. Leo’s eyes remained fixed on the screen throughout the ninety one minutes. Leo thoroughly enjoyed it.
This morning all I want to do is close my tired eyes. I want to go back to bed and sleep for eight hours. Of course I cannot do this. I have to go and pick Roma up from daycare in three hours. I pray that when we return that she will nap this afternoon. Until very recently she hasn’t been napping. She would rather try climbing out of the crib. A scary time for us but a new discovery for her. We have a huge bean bag placed by the crib for any future vaults over it. I hope today and her run around the gym, play with the other kids and just her busy fun time will mean that she will be tired and in need of a nap. I intend to nap if she does too.
This is what I will do with my time today. Sleep.
