oh sleep, how I miss you

Figured this graphic was fitting for today since I made orange cranberry muffins haha.

Nicholai is getting another tooth. I looked in his mouth this morning and he has one coming in on the upper right now too. Which would explain why he was up at midnight and 1am screaming. I am so tired of this single parent thing lol. It will be so nice to have Chris home so that I don’t have to be the only one getting up every single time he starts screaming. But after the 1am wakeup he went back to sleep until 7:30 so that makes up for it I guess. I got decent sleep.

It’s Friday! Yay Friday. That means another week of this deployment is over and next week will be 4 months down! Chris bought Nicholai a stuffed animal, Blue from Blue’s Clues… Nicholai’s favorite tv show ever. He cries every time it ends… it’s so cute! Nicholai also started giving kisses. He will usually give them when I ask for one, he opens his mouth and touches his mouth to my mouth, but recently if we are playing and he wants to snuggle he will walk into my arms and then pull back and kiss me right on the mouth without being asked first. It is so precious. I love my little boy so much!

I’ve been going into book withdrawl. I’m trying not to read the Twilight series again so I ended up reading A Child Called ‘It’. I’ve read it before but not since becoming a parent. I don’t know if any of you have read it but if you think your lives are terrible and are down on yourselves you should read this book. It’s the real life story of a boy named David who suffered from the 3rd worst case of child abuse in California’s history. He was beaten millions of times, had to sleep in the garage on an old army cot without heat, was starved ( I think the longest his mother made him go without food was 10 days), he wore the same clothes everyday for years, he was forced to eat his own vomit, had his younger brother’s dirty diaper shoved in his face, was "gas chambered" many many times ( his mother would mix amonia and bleach together and shut him in the bathroom with the gas fumes). I just can’t imagine doing that to your child. And he wasn’t her only child. She has 3 or 4 other boys that she treated normally, it was just David that she did that too. I honestly can’t imagine what would make you do that to your child, your own child. I look at Nicholai and I can’t even imagine that happening to him, let alone me doing it to him?! NEVER!

That poor boy… I just can’t imagine.

I have pictures that I’m planning on uploading but Nicholai is up from his nap a half hour early so I will try and come back and edit this or I will just post them tomorrow.

Back to mommyland haha