The House Of Hot Kettles

Daytime naps: becoming a pain in the arse

Arlo is fighting against daytime naps, unless I sleep with him.  Ugh.  I mean, don't get me wrong, I love nanna naps!  But some days I have shit to do, you know?  Like today.  I needed to pack for us.  So when he finally did go to sleep, I...spent hours using photoshop and uploading to flickr.  Sigh.  Priorities!  I am an expert at last-minute packing, with many years' practice.

And Arlo is still asleep, at 5.30pm, and I have not made a start on dinner, and he will wake up tantrumy and carrying on and I will bet that he is having rice bubbles for dinner, y'all.  Again.

Cutting my losses

I get to go yarn shopping today!  For nothing special, but I've been knitting a blanket, and I went to buy some more yarn last week, only to discover that Spotlight is not currently carryin its own brand yarn.  So I'm SOL.  I also made the stupid decision to knit the damn thing on 2.5 mm circs.  So I will get enough yarn to finish the project, and a couple of pairs of circs in, maybe, 5mm. 

And then I start again, even though I'm on row 90-something and probably closing in on 5-600 stitches per row.  I did all that in about a week so with a larger gauge it'll go quickly.

Meanwhile, Arlo is outside playing with a saucepan full of water.

Late night last night

We went to [long complicated description of relationship]'s birthday party last night.  Didn't get there till 8pm, as I'd been in town shooting a wedding and then had to detour to my parents' place to pick Arlo up. 

His usual bedtime is around 7pm, so I thought he would get cranky early, but I told him we were going to see UNcle Brynn and Arthur, and so he stayed awake the whole hourlong drive home.  And then went nuts with Arthur; they ran around and around the huge backyard of [not my] Nana's cottage, through the shed, and stealthily played in the gross baths full of stagnant water when they thought we weren't looking.  I mean - well, okay, it was when we really weren't looking.  And Arlo gorged himself on multicoloured popcorn (which came out a khaki green today). 

Suddenly I realised it was 10pm.  Whoops!  And Arlo was practically begging me to go to bed.  I didn't want to go home just yet, I hadn't caught up with Brynn for ages, so Marianne set up two foam cot mattresses for the boys and I told them a story and remarkably they just went to sleep together. Okay, okay, probably not so remarkable since it was 10pm.

I took this shot in the wee hours of the morning (with my new flash on!  I finally have my own flash...)