Taking the Scenic Route

We ended up with a bit more snow.  It actually got deeper than this, but it was too dark to photgraph by then and it is mostly melted off today.

This morning Zane woke up and wanted “Mickey Mouse Club please”.  At this point, I really have heard enough “Hot Dog Hot Dog Hot diggity dog…” and “Oh toodles” as I ever want to hear.  lol. I am so bored with this video and hope he finds a new obsession soon.  He is going to wear out a line in the carpet between the tv and the sliding glass doors if he continues to run back and forth like this.  Whoever said that tv & video games are sedentary activities has never spent time in our house.  Fridays are always really stimmy around here because he is so worn out from the week’s therapy and school.  Both of my guys are just “done” with being out of the house by the time Friday comes.  Zach comes home and just wants to sleep and usually makes the statement “I don’t want to leave the house for the rest of the day”. 

Zach informed me that last night Zane’s “God blesses” got really long.  “Oncle ‘Teve” should feel good because his name came up pretty high on the list, right after our family, then the Grandparents, then went to include his therapists, and then a bunch of students in his class.  After Zach got him started, he actually said the “God Bless” part, not just the pause after Zach said “God Bless…”.  And, typical of Zane, after he had said it a few times, he started mushing together the words, but Zach was able to get him to slow down and enunciate.  Nothing quite like cramming a speech lesson into a prayer.  lol.

Zora is walking around repeating the phrase “ahhh Gooo”(rhymes with “Ah Chew” or, more likely “I do”)  It sound eerily like verbal stimming, but I really think it is just her practicing speech, not true stimming.  At least hers is done is a sweet little baby voice, so it is mostly just cute.  Much better than the screaming she is apt to do later in the day.  (often done while holding shoes, or a coat, or clothes in an attempt to get us to take her out and go someplace).  She is just about as opposite a kid as possible.  She starts losing it if we stay home the entire day…who am I kidding, if we stay home for more than about 4-6 hours.  This is truly going to be one of the most challenging things to balance as our family gets older.  Zane cries if we leave the house, Zora cries if we come home. 

We are hoping to get the front room (will be Zora’s room at some point in the future) cleared out today.  I am hoping that I can accomplish enough that I feel ok pulling out my knitting again.  I am not sure if we are going to get that much done, but one can hope.  I do know that I am getting tired of not having access to all of our stuff.  It is so much harder to unpack with the kids around because if we have more than a box or two open, both of them start ‘helping’ and it turns into a mess really fast. Trying to manage the normal living mess with the unpacking mess has me tired beyond belief.  The laundry isn’t helping either.  I am not even cloth diapering right now, but my laundry still has me snowed under.  Once everything is together, I think laundry will actually be a lot easier here than it was at our last place, but it isn’t there now.  I just want to spread it all out so I can see what is going on, but Zach gets really anxious seeing piles of laundry strewn throughout the place and the kids will just re-arrange the piles anyway, so I just have to try and go through the giant pile and pick out things for a load, trying to keep Zora from crawling on me and keeping the clothes I just put “shout” on out of her hands/mouth, ect.  Everything just seems like so much *more* right now.