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vacation and missing my kids

So here I am.  500 miles from home. Have a hotel room all to myself.  and I can’t sleep.

I miss David.  I am usually awake until around 4am because of him.  According to my body it is only 2:30 am.  Another hour a half to go before my body gives in and shuts down for the night.

It may seem odd, but I miss his constant banter.  The repeating of the same question over and over again until either I get tired of it and give him what he wants, or he gets tired of asking.  The latter doesn’t happen very often.  I usually have to get him to go to seclusion after the first 15 minutes of the same question.

I feel for my wife and her sister.  They are at home, and not used to having to keep an ear out for David at all hours of the night.  So I wonder.  What is he getting into?  Is he stealing Aunt’s keys? or Mom’s cell phone?  Is he tormenting the cat?

I miss Cole, Tanner and Kelsey too.  Kelsey for her humor.  🙂  Cole for his humor, and love of life.  Tanner for his sense of honor, love of history and profound wisdom.

Ah well.  Good night David.  What ever you are doing, please stop.

Remember, you shouldn’t be on facebook without permission.

Love Dad.

Calgon take me away… alas it is an exercise in futility

It has been a day already.

David was up at 7.  he went to bed at 11 last night, but was up and down all night long.

Since then he has been as busy as Roger Rabbit.  Zip from here to there.  When he is like he was last night, it is hard to sleep.

David thinks that everyone is deaf when they are sleeping so he makes a lot of noise in the hopes of waking them.  Then you hear snippets of “David, stop that, David, David, David, David…”  alas it is an exercise in futility.

So we went on an outing. He had to do a blood draw, and then we stopped at the grocery store.

It seems like our whole day has been:

Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Mom. Mom. Mom. Hey Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad…

if I pull any more hair out, i’ll be bald

David is in full form tonight.  He is all wound up and attention needy.  Which means that he will do whatever it takes to get attention. Positive or Negative.

Now, some people say “ignore him”.

Easy for you to say, you don’t live with him 24/7.  When he gets like this the other kids hide, and everyone is just along for the ride.

So I am trying to keep him busy.  As part of that, I grant him amnesty for cleaning all of the stuff out of his play area that doesn’t belong to him.  Since he has a pretty serious issue with taking things that don’t belong to him, we can end up with quite a pile of stuff on the kitchen table.

Oh, wait, I hear his brother crying out David’s name in a way that can only make your nerves quake.  Time to mediate the fight.

If you need birth control, we will have you over for dinner one night, that should fix that problem.  In all seriousness though, even with the benefit of his many blessings, I love him dearly.  Just some days it gets to be a bit much.