When it comes to kids I’m sure all parents go through the “guessing game”, for the first year we have to interpret “cries”. That cry means he’s hungry or this cry means he’s just tired. I’m finding with our baby girl that as kids get older it gets easier, they start to point at what they want or pull you in a certain direction. Then they start to say some words, with out baby girl she usues more sign language than actual words…but we still can figure out what she wants and she’ll be two pretty soon. Getting so big.
I say all this because with Luke, we still play the guessing game. He’ll be four in a couple months, but for him we still have to interpret his “cries”. Most of the time I know what he wants because of routines. A good example of this is after we eat and I put Luke on the floor he’ll often start to cry at me but I know that what he usually wants is his juice. So once I hand Luke his juice he is quiet and happy.
Luke is slowly doing some sign language “more”, “go” and “please” are his famous three. But, that is the limit…..once and a while he’ll throw out a word out of nowhere which is a moment of rejoicing. I am very happy with the progress he is making, but this week I’ve found myself frustrated with the “guessing game”.
On Monday Luke started to cough when sleeping. By Tuesday night I started up Luke’s humidifier to help him sleep, of course he decided to party for 2 hours. I’m still not sure if it was because I let him take a decent nap or because he is now taking a vitamin cocktail that gives him extra energy. Either way, the cough continued…so on Wednesday night I also ran the humidifier. This night Luke was up playing again for a couple hours, even though I cut his nap short. This night though Luke had a new adventure of sorts. The noises I was trying to ignore during the night, the coughing and the thumping of Luke playing with his bed…all of a sudden turned into crying. So I went to investigate and I found Luke sitting on the floor and stuck between the bed and the front slates that grandpa made to keep Luke contained! He had played with the bed so hard that two pieces popped out which in turn let Luke slide down to the floor. Crazy boy! I popped the pieces back together and we are waiting for daddy to get time and fix them. So far…this hasn’t happened again.
But, then last night (Thursday night) Luke still had a cough so I still ran the humidifier…only this time Luke woke crying and crying and crying some more. I’m not sure he ever really go to sleep…until about 1:30am. I playing the “guessing game”…holding him, giving him some pain medicine, trying to sleep with him in his bed…none of which worked. That is until I tried sleeping in his bed with him and after about an hour he decided since he wasn’t sleeping to start clapping up a storm and shaking his head around and laughing at himself. At this point…I was so tired and figured if he can have fun…I can leave him again and try to get sleep on my own. Of course Luke started crying after I left…but after about 10 minutes he fell asleep and I only heard some coughing the rest of the night.
I’m still not sure what the issue was last night and I pray that tonight isn’t a repeat of the “guessing game”.
No comments:
Post a Comment