Oh. My. God. I totally quit. Don’t wanna play anymore.

Last night Timmy decided it would be a great idea to not sleep. Pretty much at all. The whole night. He ended up having a very busy day yesterday (Thursday). Jen and Jack watched him in the morning so I could get my hair highlighted, then we headed over to Sharon & Olivia’s for a playdate there. By the time I looked at the clock, it was almost time to get the big boys from school. So no nap, but I figured it would be okay since with the PT/OT thing, he is generally not napping on Tuesdays or Thursdays. And he slept til 8:25am Thursday morning. Wrong. By bedtime, he was a total mess, trantrums, tripping over himself. He even whacked his head on a toy and gave himself a swollen eye (yeah, thats gonna look great for the wedding pictures Sunday!). Well, he didn’t sleep last night. Just didn’t. He was up crying, schutching, whining, screaming, kicking, you name it. I don’t know why. Maybe overtired + lack of papi = no sleep? I tried everything…ignoring, comforting, holding, rocking, laying in his bed, laying in my bed, yelling, threatening, kissing…nothing!!!! So he slept for maybe 3 hrs (not consecutive either) and was just grumpier each time he woke up. But I didn’t cave and give him the papi!! Not that he asked for it, even, but it probably wouldv’e helped. He was so exhausted I think he was a little delirious! Seriously. He was SCREAMING at me things like, "I spray the flowers!", "I want my roly-poly teddy bear!" (he dosen’t have a teddy bear), "I like honey-nut cheerios!" (he dosen’t). If it wasn’t like 4am and maybe if I had actually slept for more than 15 minutes prior, it would’ve been funny. And then to top it off with the sleeping, or lack thereof, he was up for the day at 6:10am. Nope. I called the doctor’s office then to make an appointment for this morning, hoping for a good old raging ear infection. Nope again. He’s totally fine. Let the beatings commence! (okay, before you call CPS, I didn’t lay a finger on the kid).  

In the meantime, Jack decided he wasn’t going to sleep either. He was awake til 3am. Don’t know why. Neither does he. He was a whole lot of fun today too, you can imagine. 

I had a slight nervous breakdown at breakfast, being so sick of cleaning up after everyone, all the time. They all seem to think I’m the magic mommy maid. So when they all leave their crap wherever it happens to land, it will magically be cleaned up, washed, and returned to it’s proper place so that when they are looking for it 2 minutes before they are supposed to be someplace (and they only have 2 minutes because even though I asked them to be ready about 20 minutes ago, they were too busy whining and complaining and dawdling about whatever that they couldn’t get ready) it’s amazingly where it should be. I’m all done. Can’t find your (insert item here)__________? Oh, that’s really too bad. Guess you will have to play soccer with one cleat. SO DONE!!!!

Then after going out in the pouring rain to the doctor, dry cleaner, bank, gas station (which, by the way was just the cherry on the cake of my day…. $4.01 per gallon of regular? WTF?) and taking Timmy to his gym class, we come home from class and Timmy proceeds to pee all over the floor, of course getting his sneakers totally soaked with pee too. Yeah. Great, now that will be 7 loads of laundry for today (that are still sitting clean but not folded). Good times!

The day did start to improve from there a little bit. Timmy did take a 2hr nap. I took a 20 minute nap while rocking him. I started working on one of the photo projects for the house. And, the best part…Mom & Ken brought me my two favorite dishes from the Peking Duck House in Chinatown! (crunchy greenbeans with crumbled pork & chicken with walnuts) Yum. Eating right now. And so far Timmy is sleeping. But it’s still early. 

If Timmy could read, and saw the title, he would say "don’t call me like that. i not superboy. I am SOOP-erman!!" His favorite song right now is I am Superman from REM- I put it on my ipod for him and whenever I play it, he gets that Timmy "hehehe" laugh. Even after the 5th time in a row.

Big news…we took away the papis (that would be pacifiers). Well, we didn’t…the papi fairy came and took them to the little babies who didn’t have papis. And she left him $10 so he could go shopping for a new toy. I wasn’t planning on having the papi fairy show up right now, but after the Mets game on Saturday, Timmy fell asleep in the car (at 5pm!) on the way home and I couldn’t wake him up for 2 hrs! He didn’t have the papi for that long nap (he only has it in his bed for naps and bedtime) so we talked about it. We discussed how he obviously didn’t need it to sleep, and that he’s not a baby anymore (waaaaaa! says mommy) since he sleeps in a big boy bed, wears big boy underwear, goes to big boy school, etc so he probably shouldn’t have a papi anymore since he’s not a baby. Plus the fact that he makes it a point to tell everyone "i not a baby! i’m a big boy!". I asked him if he thought he was ready for the papi fairy to come and take the papis and he said yes. Could it really, really be this easy? I wasn’t hopeful.

The reason I wasn’t hopeful… two words. Jack & Patrick. When it was their turn for the papi fairy to pay a visit after much discussion about the whole deal (no more papis, papis for the babies, a new toy)… the first night they were going to bed everything seemed fine, UNTIL… they got into bed, broke out into simultaneous crying fits, and screaming "I can’t brEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEathe without it!!!" They were so addicted and were going thru withdrawl. Like crackheads. It was like this for about 3 days. Not so much.

So, things seem to be going pretty well with Timmy (I’m afraid to post it cause I don’t want to jinx it). Went to bed no problem the first night (Saturday) and slept thru til 8am. No nap on Sunday though, but he did play in his bed for an hour. Sunday he had 3 (yes 3!) accidents. I think he was so tired without the nap he just couldn’t get it together. Last night was okay. He went to bed early since he was such a total wreck (he really needed that nap!) slept til 4am and was up for half an hour looking for the damn papi. He did go back to sleep til around 7:15am. Not bad. And today, he was nowhere near napping when I put him down but he was so tired. So I told him I was going to rock him, and he fell right asleep and napped for 2hrs. With no papi. Woohoo!