Comments on: Timeline of the Launch of Grump 1

By: treeva

treeva — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:13:29 +0000

if you ever need a child behavioral therapist, i am your girl =)welcome to the world of early childhood.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:21:58 +0000

All you people saying “it doesn’t get easier” are truly making me feel better.

By: Camron

Camron — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:32:19 +0000

We have three boys. Oldest (11) invariably waits until after the “Bedtime!” announcement to complain that he is hungry. Then he claims fear of the dark, and tries to read all night. Middle Son (7) does not understand - after repeated explanations - that he may NOT watch a video before bed on a school night. Middle Son is also the one who claims he has to pee like an elderly man - every 15 minutes or so. Youngest (6) wants to climb in bed with me. Or with the dog. Or wrapped in his Spiderman blanket in the hallway in front of my bedroom (wassup with that?).

Of course, this doesn’t happen as often when Hubby is at home (which he rarely is during the week). When Dad’s home, the boys just get up about 5:00am asking to play on the PlayStation. But they won’t get out of bed on school days without much shouting and gnashing of teeth.

The point being: I feel your pain (even with the lack of infant feeding). And Limax is right - it doesn’t get easier. But at least it can be funny!

By: Limax

Limax — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:34:24 +0000

Oh, one other comment… Travon is 6 and will be 7 in January. It does not get easier.

By: kat

kat — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:30:17 +0000

Replace Eli with two cats really wanting to be near you at every moment of the night because they’re afraid you’ll disappear again and you’ve got what I deal with every time I come home from a trip for at least the following week.

By: Misty

Misty — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:51:40 +0000

Just now Eli came out to have the hangnail on his toe trimmed. That boy has a line for everything!

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:10:28 +0000

What kind of roll maneuver did Grump 1 execute? What was its final orbit? Did it have materials exposed to atomic oxygen effects? Were said materials in the wake of the spacecraft?

[Feel free to punch me in the face at any time, Stephen.]

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:40:39 +0000

so so so so spot on.
The only difference I see here is that I spend a fair amount of time trying to steer through or dissuade my toddler’s diversions, which will go on as late as there’s a response back. These mainly take place from his bed to wherever we are within earshot (which is everywhere in our house) in an effort to keep us engaged/stay awake:

‘I can’t sleep alone’
‘My car was thirsty’ (from the bathroom)
‘Let’s do something you’d like to do tomorrow’ - hard not to reply to this one.
‘my pillow is too hot’
‘let’s talk about our day’
‘Can I have a butterbread?’
‘what should we do tomorrow?’
‘but I thought we were going to read two stories’

etc.

By: Limax

Limax — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:10:20 +0000

Travon does the same thing. I’m not sure what it is with boys. Laurie has sent him back to bed before, but he still manages to crawl in. I’m thinking about starting to lock the door…

By: Jonathan Creekmore

Jonathan Creekmore — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:06:24 +0000

Replace Eli with our dogs either scratching at the blinds or licking my hands to wake me up and that sounds very much like our nights. Our dogs even complain to us that they need a snack at night, even though they ate their dinners. Of course, when our dogs complain, we can just throw them outside; that would not work as well with Eli.