Because I’m still too tired to write a long and coherent post (though I am working very slowly on something home-related), here are a few random tidbits from my week.\u00c2\u00a0 My Facebook friends will recognize some of these….<\/p>\n
1.\u00c2\u00a0 A few days ago, bright and early (5:40) The Littlest Apple woke up and we came downstairs to start our day.\u00c2\u00a0 I was in the bathroom for one minute, maybe two.\u00c2\u00a0 When I came out, our downstairs was COVERED in flour…..the kitchen, the living room, the dining room, the entry rug, all of it.\u00c2\u00a0 He got a box of cake flour (full minus 2 tablespoons) from the pantry and poured it everywhere in those 1-2 minutes I was in the bathroom.\u00c2\u00a0 I give myself a big pat on the back for not yelling.\u00c2\u00a0 What a way to start the morning.<\/p>\n
2.\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday, The Littlest Apple was enthusiastically reenacting a scene from Toy Story while I was working on dinner, and he threw Mr. Potato Head at The Picky Apple’s brand new 47″ flatscreen TV.\u00c2\u00a0 The Picky Apple doesn’t even let The Littlest Apple BREATHE near his new pride and joy, so I was a little panicky.\u00c2\u00a0 No harm done, thank goodness.\u00c2\u00a0 The Littlest Apple and I BOTH would have been in a heap of trouble when The Picky Apple got home from work.\u00c2\u00a0 The Littlest Apple and Mr. Potato Head were both sent to timeout.\u00c2\u00a0 Again, pat on the back to me for not yelling.<\/p>\n
3.\u00c2\u00a0 The Littlest Apple’s pump (for his NG tube) has an alarm that beeps in the middle of the night almost every night, usually because The Littlest Apple is laying on the tubing or has gotten tangled up in it.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve started hearing “phantom” beeps in my head throughout the night, similar to the “phantom” screaming I heard for months on end when The Littlest Apple had colic.\u00c2\u00a0 The “phantom” beeps (in addition to the real ones) startle me awake, and then I have trouble going back to sleep.\u00c2\u00a0 Fun times.<\/p>\n
4.\u00c2\u00a0 When I went in to check on The Littlest Apple this morning after the pump alarm went off, I discovered that his tube had come open and unhooked from the pump.\u00c2\u00a0 The pump was therefore pumping formula all over the bed (and The Littlest Apple’s back), and his tube was leaking formula (and stomach juices…ew ew ew!) all over his bed.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the second time that’s happened.\u00c2\u00a0 So at 6 am, still groggy, it was necessary to wash all the bedding and stuffed animals and give The Littlest Apple a bath. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 What a way to start the morning (again).<\/p>\n
5.\u00c2\u00a0 When I talked to the pediatrician at yesterday’s checkup about The Littlest Apple’s crazy energy, she said she didn’t think it was from the formula, and that switching formulas probably won’t help.\u00c2\u00a0 She thinks this is just how much energy he’s going to have when he’s getting the calories he needs, and started asking if we have a family history of ADD\/ADHD.\u00c2\u00a0 We don’t (that I know of), but it is something I’m worrying about already.\u00c2\u00a0 He turns 3 next month and starts a new more structured preschool in September.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m very anxious to see how he adjusts.\u00c2\u00a0 The prospect of dealing with this energy level day in\/day out is scaring me a little.<\/p>\n
6.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m trying to encourage The Littlest Apple to be more independent and go to the bathroom by himself.\u00c2\u00a0 This has resulted in toilet paper unrolled and SHREDDED all over the bathroom (more than once….the paper gets unrolled nearly every time he’s alone), half the bottle of soap being pumped into the sink for bubbly hand washing time, and The Littlest Apple half naked standing on the bathroom counter.<\/p>\n
I’m tired, y’all.<\/p>\n
Because I’m still too tired to write a long and coherent post (though I am working very slowly on something home-related), here are a few random tidbits from my week.\u00c2\u00a0 My Facebook friends will recognize some of these…. 1.\u00c2\u00a0 A few days ago, bright and early (5:40) The Littlest Apple woke up and we came […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3666,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions\/3666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}