Monday, July 05, 2004
It ends tomorrow. There are two things that stop this from being a peaceful and harmonious household. One is child-noise, a noise Benny has invented that sends my nerves from 0 to shot in three repetitions. It's a noise connected with the way he used to burrow and squeeze my boobs and say THE NURSIES THE NURSIES after he had weaned and after he had been told 20,000 times that was not okay to do. It's a noise he has now attributed to an imaginary friend called "the child" who makes this noise... all day. It's a noise I have tried for ONE FULL YEAR now to get him to quit, by saying please don't make that noise Benny, too loud Benny, please stop Benny, and now it has become this CHALLENGE where he will look right at me as I am telling him NOT TO MAKE CHILD-NOISE and he makes it, and it sends me into a blind rage immediately. Is it ridiculous to wage a war over a silly noise? NO. Because it's him vs me, whatever the battlefield, however apparently trivial.
The other thing that ends tomorrow is his practice of, when the lights are turned out and he's had his story and drink and potty and hug and kiss and whatnot, he calls us up (to the third floor) at LEAST three times a night, hollering, "MOMMMY! MOMMY! MOMMY!" or "DADDY! DADDY! DADDY!" and when we get all the way up there his reason is to see if I am sleeping, or to tell me that his glow in the dark planets are glowing or to have another drink (when he has paper cups on the sink for that) or to go potty again (when he knows jolly well how to go potty for himself) or WHATEVER, he is driving us both insane because for up to TWO HOURS after he is put to bed, it is MOMMY MOMMY MOMMY and DADDY DADDY DADDY and because we've decided we will always answer when he calls, because what if he's puking or having a nightmare or really needs something, WE GO MARCHING UP THERE LIKE FOOLS TO GET TOLD THAT "OH, I APPEARED!" OR WHATEVER FOOL THING IT IS... well this stops tomorrow.
How am I going to stop these things? Stay tuned. We have such a loveable, adorable, polite, mannered, angelic, brilliant, beautiful child -- WHY should we be angry at him over these things which CAN BE FIXED??? Why should we fight on month after month pulling and tugging and fussing and complaining and arguing about it -- FORGET IT. IT ENDS.
The other thing that ends tomorrow is his practice of, when the lights are turned out and he's had his story and drink and potty and hug and kiss and whatnot, he calls us up (to the third floor) at LEAST three times a night, hollering, "MOMMMY! MOMMY! MOMMY!" or "DADDY! DADDY! DADDY!" and when we get all the way up there his reason is to see if I am sleeping, or to tell me that his glow in the dark planets are glowing or to have another drink (when he has paper cups on the sink for that) or to go potty again (when he knows jolly well how to go potty for himself) or WHATEVER, he is driving us both insane because for up to TWO HOURS after he is put to bed, it is MOMMY MOMMY MOMMY and DADDY DADDY DADDY and because we've decided we will always answer when he calls, because what if he's puking or having a nightmare or really needs something, WE GO MARCHING UP THERE LIKE FOOLS TO GET TOLD THAT "OH, I APPEARED!" OR WHATEVER FOOL THING IT IS... well this stops tomorrow.
How am I going to stop these things? Stay tuned. We have such a loveable, adorable, polite, mannered, angelic, brilliant, beautiful child -- WHY should we be angry at him over these things which CAN BE FIXED??? Why should we fight on month after month pulling and tugging and fussing and complaining and arguing about it -- FORGET IT. IT ENDS.
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