This is day four of Seth waking up at 4am, so this is being written by a frustrated, exhausted mother who is thinking her child is not really THAT cute anymore.
We are of the school that it's quite alright to show your children who is boss. So, for the first 3 days I decided "You, 18 month old, do not dictate our lives and 4am isn't appropriate because I say so." Had to move Isaac into our bed and move myself to the couch in order to let Seth know he isn't getting up no matter what he says. This used to mean that he would whine, cry a bit, and within 20 minutes be back asleep. NOT ANYMORE. He proceeded to yell, cry, jump on his bed, and repeat "Mommy!!!" incessantly. Luckily for Isaac and Kevin they sleep through anything and slept right through the racket, until 6:30 when Kevin's alarm went off for work. I had been sitting awake since 4, because who sleeps through that?!
So this morning, a defeated woman, I hear Seth yell at 3:57am and just give in. Okay, I'm up, and apparently this is my new wake up time. Lovely, especially when finals week is NEXT WEEK. RAWR, 4AM!!!
I swear this post was really supposed to be about Christmas. So, here it is!
We got the tree up, and most importantly:
THE TRAIN!! Isaac has made this Christmas season so special for us. He is SO excited that he started asking me on December 1st, "Mom, it's Christmastime.. where is our tree??" He was a huge help decorating, and asks me daily about Santa just to make sure he has all of his facts straight. We'll have to take them to the mall soon to meet Santa. (Sidenote: it seems like quite the social commentary that we as Americans expect to meet Santa at our haven of consumerism.) We get a rundown of his wishlist, daily. It goes a little something like this:
Isaac's Christmas List:
- Stinky the Garbage Truck (Garbage truck that sings and dances. Yah.)
- A Nintendo DS. Not just any, but the, "special anniversary Mario one." (Thank you, commercials.)
- Lego Racers.
- Nerf guns
- Hot Wheels Criss Cross Crash
I must be forgetting some, but those are the main ones that we hear about every day and I'm pretty sure he is getting all of them from one family member or another.
I love seeing his little eyes light up when we drive down a street with decorated houses. We put some lights up in our window and he said, "Now we have a Christmas house too!!" Love that boy.
