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May 01, 2008

Sweet dreams & playground screams

Countsheep I probably shouldn’t be typing this, because it is inevitable that as soon as I say that something is going right it goes to hell in a handbasket the very next day. But I’m so happy I have to share: Mads has been sleeping in! It’s only been a few days, but I am ecstatic. I don’t know if it was the evil sound machine, luck, or her deciding she missed her late mornings, but she is back to her wonderful sleeping ways. For now!

This is entirely typical of how things seem to go, at least according to my vast (ha!) experience. Here is the pattern in 10 easy steps:

Step 1: Problem arises
Step 2: I try to fix it
Step 3: Problem persists
Step 4: I read parenting books and start incessant Googling (“Toddler early wake-up HELP")
Step 5: Problem persists
Step 6: I panic
Step 7: Problem persists
Step 8: I give up
Step 9: Problem suddenly resolves itself
Step 10: Mads delights in how easy it is to get Mommy to run the wheel like a caged hamster

You’d think that recognizing this pattern would help me to break it. But no, sadly not.

So anyways, now that we’ve got that glorious news out of the way...

The other day Mads and I stopped at the playground on our way home from running errands. We weren’t in our usual 'hood, so I just pulled over at the first park I saw because my backseat driver was getting antsy.

She ran around, collecting rocks and cigarette butts (okay, she didn’t actually gather the butts, but she wanted to) and I exchanged pleasantries with a fellow mom. Mads climbed to the slide, this woman and I looking on, and before I know it my poor monkey is down the slide, flying through the air, and lying stunned flat on her back on the ground. It was like the thing had been waxed for some extreme toddler sliding competition.

I ran over and picked her sobbing self up off the dirt and then my co-mom comes over and says, “Oh, that slide is always very fast, she's too little for that."

Awesome, thanks. But for future reference, I think that might fall under the category of “Things you could have told me 2 minutes ago.”

Mads is okay, though. As usual, her pride took the brunt of it.

Fingers crossed for another good sleep…

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Im crossing my fingers for you.

Posted by: michelle | May 1, 2008 12:05:33 PM

Thanks Michelle! :)

Any time you need the favour returned just let me know!

Posted by: Carolyn | May 1, 2008 12:10:15 PM

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