E-I-E-I-E-I-E-I-E-I-E
New baby today. He's 14 months old, doesn't walk, doesn't crawl, scoots around on his butt a bit, doesn't pull himself up to stand, doesn't eat solid food, isn't on milk (just formula), takes two two-hour naps every day, and cried all day long today - even when I was holding him and rocking him. I'll call him John. I'm praying he adjusts fast cause by the end of the day my head was buzzing.
Austin learned a new thing today. When he learns something new, he becomes obsessed with it, and that's all he does or says. This is why, for the past two weeks, the only noise that he made was screaming at the top of his lungs. Anyway, today, to my immense gratification, Austin learned "E-I-E-I-O" though, he leaves out the "O" and just goes "E-I-E-I-E-I-E-I-E-I..." and after 5 hours of this you would think that it would be annoying, but it's *so* much better than the ear-splitting screeching.
Anita was there today. Between her and John, it was a noisy day, but she actually took a nap on the cot. There was much rejoicing by all.
Today wasn't much better than yesterday. I'll be very glad when this week is over. With the V.P. (and apparently the President as well) of Corporate coming this week, tensions are just too high. It's making the kids on edge, which makes my job that much more difficult. Next week I plan on stripping all the kids down to their diapers, letting them do pudding paintings and then taking them outside to play in the grass and water in the sensory table. Maybe, for good measure, I'll bring in frosting to put on graham crackers and get the babies all sugared up too. They deserve some crazy time where people aren't freaking out about the room being clean.
That's all for tonight!
Austin learned a new thing today. When he learns something new, he becomes obsessed with it, and that's all he does or says. This is why, for the past two weeks, the only noise that he made was screaming at the top of his lungs. Anyway, today, to my immense gratification, Austin learned "E-I-E-I-O" though, he leaves out the "O" and just goes "E-I-E-I-E-I-E-I-E-I..." and after 5 hours of this you would think that it would be annoying, but it's *so* much better than the ear-splitting screeching.
Anita was there today. Between her and John, it was a noisy day, but she actually took a nap on the cot. There was much rejoicing by all.
Today wasn't much better than yesterday. I'll be very glad when this week is over. With the V.P. (and apparently the President as well) of Corporate coming this week, tensions are just too high. It's making the kids on edge, which makes my job that much more difficult. Next week I plan on stripping all the kids down to their diapers, letting them do pudding paintings and then taking them outside to play in the grass and water in the sensory table. Maybe, for good measure, I'll bring in frosting to put on graham crackers and get the babies all sugared up too. They deserve some crazy time where people aren't freaking out about the room being clean.
That's all for tonight!