Well I have safely survived since my last post. Boy have things been busy here in Graperland! I am still sorta' shell shocked...
To recap:
We got the princess starting Wednesday of last week, per my earlier posts. This did create HAVOC in our household. Crash (the not yet a year old baby), loves his sis! He is used to seeing her at the end of the day on weekdays and every other weekend. He OVERLOADED on sis, he did sleep well...once we finally got him there. Talk about stimulated. We also had the neighbor kids over on Friday
The King had to work Saturday, but was still able to get up with the baby and let mom sleep in. He also managed to squeeze in a game of Monopoly with the Princess. He didn't have to be in to work until 2 PM, but had to stay until 9 PM. I don't know if I fully conveyed the SUCK of this in my previous post. It did SUCK, the baby stayed up until 10:30 PM Waaaaaaaaaaay past his usual bed time so Daddy could put him down. He was asleep within seconds of daddy picking him up.
Talk about a disgruntled mommy...I wanted to sleep in sooooooooooooo bad on Sunday, but it was Father's day and the Princess needed to be returned by 1:00 PM for a BBQ at her mothers. So mommy was up by 7:30 AM and the princess joined us about 8:30 AM...and we finished the Father's Day preparations. The Princess and I did a Father's Day card for the King and wrapped the pocket knife the kids gave him, Crash also scribbled his mark on the card and we took him a cup of coffee in bed around 11:00, the lucky bastard, I'm not bitter...never...
Then the Princess and I left at noonish for the dollar store and then her mom's house. We needed to re-stock the Princess Store so she would have new things to "buy" with her Princess Points. By the by, if anyone is dealing with an essentially cooporative step-child and is looking for a good way to get them on their side, I highly recommend rewarding good/positive behavior by giving out points (of whatever sort) before bed. Take the time to reinforce all of your positive interactions throughout the day, one-on-one and let them spend them on tangible immediate rewards the next day. It puts them to bed with a good feeling about both of you and they can look forward to playing with their new thing. This can get expensive, especially if you have items to choose in several "price" ranges. We ended up spendin WAY more than I had planned, but I wanted to re-stock for summer, they also had some great things. I can't wait to see her face tommorrow!
Today we had the Farmer and her parents, my grandparents over. They were coming in for a doctor's appointment and decided to come by for an hour or so and see the baby. They ended up getting here about 2:30 PM and left about 3:30 PM. Needless to say, I spent most I my morning hystarically trying to restore order to the downstairs. I succeeded better than I had dared hope. I was able to excavate a table and chairs in the dining room, moved the computer to a new desk. Moved the desk that had been there into the dining room, to become the Princesses very own place to have STUFF. Vaccuumed both the dining room and living room, and cleared the front entryway of all of the various accumulation. I also did 3 loads of laundry, just to make the piles look more managable. When will the laundry end????? hee hee ha ha ho ho...
We all had a wonderful visit, Grammy gave me an early birthday present, I loved it! She gave me a hilarious card, I have to remember to share it with the neighbors. I also got a great purse and some CUTE tanks. Grama ROCKS! Crash was on semi-good behavior. He was very sleepy by the time they got here and he has a little cold, so he was a bit crabby. He didn't seem to recognize Grammy & Grampa, but he hasn't seen them much lately, not as much as ANYONE would like. The Farmer keeps making me feel like I don't want to share him, it isn't that, come on, gas there and back is close to $40 and we seem to be up there more than not. Besides we are going up on the weekend of the Fourth and will be up there plenty long enough for birthdays for all...
Crash did manage a couple of things on his own for the first time today. He managed to put all of the rings back on the cone, and he also managed to make a squeeker squeek on one of his rattles. He is AMAZING to me. He did do the rings while the Farmer and his great-grandparents were here, he also played a rousing game of peek-a-boo with us. Once again, Crash gives a great visit.
We are all looking forward to Daddy's Grammy coming into town this weekend and need to have the entire weekend cleared. I also need to get the kitchen whipped into shape again. When will the dishes end, I think you get the idea...
Anywho, she's a kick and I am looking forward to seeing her. I hope Crash is a good sport about it.
To recap:
We got the princess starting Wednesday of last week, per my earlier posts. This did create HAVOC in our household. Crash (the not yet a year old baby), loves his sis! He is used to seeing her at the end of the day on weekdays and every other weekend. He OVERLOADED on sis, he did sleep well...once we finally got him there. Talk about stimulated. We also had the neighbor kids over on Friday
The King had to work Saturday, but was still able to get up with the baby and let mom sleep in. He also managed to squeeze in a game of Monopoly with the Princess. He didn't have to be in to work until 2 PM, but had to stay until 9 PM. I don't know if I fully conveyed the SUCK of this in my previous post. It did SUCK, the baby stayed up until 10:30 PM Waaaaaaaaaaay past his usual bed time so Daddy could put him down. He was asleep within seconds of daddy picking him up.
Talk about a disgruntled mommy...I wanted to sleep in sooooooooooooo bad on Sunday, but it was Father's day and the Princess needed to be returned by 1:00 PM for a BBQ at her mothers. So mommy was up by 7:30 AM and the princess joined us about 8:30 AM...and we finished the Father's Day preparations. The Princess and I did a Father's Day card for the King and wrapped the pocket knife the kids gave him, Crash also scribbled his mark on the card and we took him a cup of coffee in bed around 11:00, the lucky bastard, I'm not bitter...never...
Then the Princess and I left at noonish for the dollar store and then her mom's house. We needed to re-stock the Princess Store so she would have new things to "buy" with her Princess Points. By the by, if anyone is dealing with an essentially cooporative step-child and is looking for a good way to get them on their side, I highly recommend rewarding good/positive behavior by giving out points (of whatever sort) before bed. Take the time to reinforce all of your positive interactions throughout the day, one-on-one and let them spend them on tangible immediate rewards the next day. It puts them to bed with a good feeling about both of you and they can look forward to playing with their new thing. This can get expensive, especially if you have items to choose in several "price" ranges. We ended up spendin WAY more than I had planned, but I wanted to re-stock for summer, they also had some great things. I can't wait to see her face tommorrow!
Today we had the Farmer and her parents, my grandparents over. They were coming in for a doctor's appointment and decided to come by for an hour or so and see the baby. They ended up getting here about 2:30 PM and left about 3:30 PM. Needless to say, I spent most I my morning hystarically trying to restore order to the downstairs. I succeeded better than I had dared hope. I was able to excavate a table and chairs in the dining room, moved the computer to a new desk. Moved the desk that had been there into the dining room, to become the Princesses very own place to have STUFF. Vaccuumed both the dining room and living room, and cleared the front entryway of all of the various accumulation. I also did 3 loads of laundry, just to make the piles look more managable. When will the laundry end????? hee hee ha ha ho ho...
We all had a wonderful visit, Grammy gave me an early birthday present, I loved it! She gave me a hilarious card, I have to remember to share it with the neighbors. I also got a great purse and some CUTE tanks. Grama ROCKS! Crash was on semi-good behavior. He was very sleepy by the time they got here and he has a little cold, so he was a bit crabby. He didn't seem to recognize Grammy & Grampa, but he hasn't seen them much lately, not as much as ANYONE would like. The Farmer keeps making me feel like I don't want to share him, it isn't that, come on, gas there and back is close to $40 and we seem to be up there more than not. Besides we are going up on the weekend of the Fourth and will be up there plenty long enough for birthdays for all...
Crash did manage a couple of things on his own for the first time today. He managed to put all of the rings back on the cone, and he also managed to make a squeeker squeek on one of his rattles. He is AMAZING to me. He did do the rings while the Farmer and his great-grandparents were here, he also played a rousing game of peek-a-boo with us. Once again, Crash gives a great visit.
We are all looking forward to Daddy's Grammy coming into town this weekend and need to have the entire weekend cleared. I also need to get the kitchen whipped into shape again. When will the dishes end, I think you get the idea...
Anywho, she's a kick and I am looking forward to seeing her. I hope Crash is a good sport about it.
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