Routers, Sleeping, School Oh My!

So I've been busy to say the least.


The little one has been a bit under the weather, but that hasn't deterred any of her sneaky ways.


The other day we were having all kinds of internet connection issues. We'd have a connection and then it would die and I'd reboot and then we'd be good to go again for a little bit and then randomly it would die out again. The router and dsl modem lights looked good. They were warm to the touch,but not too warm...it was just strange. Come to find out, the little stinker that I call daughter who's just turned eight months old, unplugged the router HALF.WAY. So we were teetering on having a connection and not having one. She could have just unplugged it all the way...but nooo half way so mommy and daddy could get frazzled and it would take us longer to figure out the problem.


She's still resisting sleep. She'd rather be awake and taking in her environment. It's not like she's in a bad mood when she's awake when she should be sleeping,it's just that firstly, she needs sleep and secondly, she's such a busy body these days with the crawling and standing that it's hard to keep up with her and wow is it exhausting! So the other night we put her down to bed at 6pm. She slept for 30 minutes, which is all she ever sleeps for unless its super late at night. Thirty minutes and she's awake like clock work right on the dot not a minute too soon or too late. I try my best to get her back to sleep but she refuses. 7pm passes by. 8pm passes by. 9pm passes by. 10pm passes by. Then I'm holding her in my arms rocking her as I stand in the doorway of the computer room talking with my husband. Taped to the wall next to me is a sign I made labeled "sleeping" which I use to tape on to the door of the computer room when the munchkin is napping in her travel crib so he'll know not to disturb the room and wake her. Our daughter takes a close look at the sign, grimmaces and snorts out a chuckle and then like a wild banshee snatches the sign off the wall, crumples it up, and rips it in half. We had to laugh because quite obviously she was telling us just.exactly.what.she.thought.of.sleeping.


Yesterday, I took my daughter to the school I used to teach at. My previous co workers had seen pictures of her, but never had the chance to meet her so yesterday was a good day to visit. I brought her down to the second grade classrooms and had a good chat with my teaching team mates. In one of the classrooms there's a large floor rug that children gather and sit on to read. I put my little one down so she could show off her crawling skills to the children. They smiled and giggled at her and she just hammed it up loving every minute of it. As a proud mother of an 8 month old, I have to say, she did a great job at the school around so many swarming kids. Then, while on the rug still, she crawled right over to the bookcase, sat down next to it, and started dragging out books to read. I'm amazed that she knew what to do!


Well, Im out of time...by now she's probably got the dog hanging by his tail from the stairwell banister and opened every drawer in the house that she could reach and pulled out it's contents.