This morning was kinda silly lol
DD10months usually wakes up quite early. During the week, DH gets up for work early anyway, so he gets up with her. I have an extra quiet 10 minutes in bed, then follow them downstairs to take over so DH can go to work.
At the weekends (when SS4 is here), I let DH sleep a little longer, I get up with DD to tiptoe past SS4's room, and hope she doesn't start any baby gurgling while we walk past which would wake SS up.
I get her downstairs and we start our day. Clean diaper, milk, play with toys etc. All knowing that SS is still asleep and I don't have to deal with him.
(by deal with him, I mean him saying things like "will you read me a story, will you play this game with me, what do gorillas sound like? how big is an alligator?" etc etc just regular kid stuff which I *do* answer during day with no problems, but I *cannot* be bothered with SS's constant talking first thing in the morning, I'm not a morning person lol!)
Sometimes if he *has* heard us and he comes downstairs, I give him breakfast and talk to him for about a half hour (in order to let DH rest) before I go wake DH to talk to SS, because *I* sure as heck don't wana talk to him anymore than that, he bugs the crap out of me recently.
Anyway this is our usual routine and I've been thinking recently how ridiculous it is tiptoeing round my own home, when this kid isn't actually doing anything wrong, he's just being a kid, I just don't have the patience. It's kind of all in my head I think. sigh.
Anyway, this morning was hilarious. I really, really really didn't want SS to wake up early today. I didn't want to deal with him *even more* than usual.
I was out back with DD, when I heard a noise coming from SS's bedroom window. I was carrying DD and quite literally *leapt* behind a wall to hide, as if SS looked out the window and saw me and DD, he would come downstairs!
The look on DD's face was priceless, it was a confused look, like she was thinking "um, mom, why did we suddenly leap half way across the yard behind this wall, and why are you 'shushing' me?!!" Lololol
Ok wow I wrote that out to share as a funny story, but now I feel really bad about it! I know I can't keep this up for long, it might make DD realise what I'm doing and start to want to avoid her big brother too, I really don't want that to happen, I want them to have a good relationship as siblings :/
Whyyy can't I just *like* being around this kid?!! He's a good kid, DH is by no means a Disney dad, and as a result, SS is well behaved, polite, sweet and loving to DH, DD and even me!
I used to genuinely *love* being around him! It's ever since he started talking in proper sentences that he just annoys me with everything that he says.
He talks. A. Lot. It's not like he reports back to BM on purpose or anything, he just talks about stuff, and, being a regular 4 year old, he gets stuff wrong and misinterprets things, which has caused problems with BM saying to DH "SS said Sunny said (whatever it is he said that I didn't actually say)" ..here's my blog about it in case you wana see http://www.steptalk.org/node/182755
Anyway like I said in that post, it makes me feel like I'm living in a goldfish bowl that BM can look into whenever she wants, just by talking to SS. Like I said, he talks. A. Lot. We even hear about when BM's sunglasses broke and she had to throw them in the trash. Or that some guy honked his horn at BM while driving and BM was sad about it.
So all the little details of *our* lives will definately be related to BM. I just don't like the goldfish bowl I'm living in now, and it makes me sad when I went back to find that blog to link here that it's been going on for 5/6 months and I still don't feel any better about it, and also extra sad that I'm still finding SS so annoying, I really hoped it would pass by now
But as sad as I'm finding my situation is, I *am* still finding me leaping around the yard at 6am this morning quite amusing lol
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I know how you feel. My SD6
I know how you feel. My SD6 tells us so many random things about BM and her boyfriend. She also tells BM everything about us. We know this because we hear about it through BM's lawyer. Everything gets taken out of context when it's filtered through a child, so things that aren't bad end up sounding horrible depending on how a child perceives something and relays it to someone who is looking to complain.
If you read some of my posts you can see what I'm talking about. I've become very uncomfortable in my own home when SD is there lately.
I'm so sorry for what you're
I'm so sorry for what you're going through, in our situation there aren't any lawyers involved, I can only imagine how much more stress that would cause x
I read a few of your posts and I just want to hug you right now xx
lol! ah the innocence of
lol! ah the innocence of childhood lololol! I have no problem telling SS to be quiet, but I just find him so annoying in the morning I'd rather he just sleep for as long as possible lol!![Wink](https://prod-cdn-1.ststatic.com/sites/all/modules/contrib/smiley/packs/kolobok/wink.gif)
brilliant. just brilliant. I
brilliant. just brilliant. I know I've got this to come with DD! hahaha
If I reeeeally can't handle
If I reeeeally can't handle SS, it turns out he is great when I say "it's very early in the morning, daddy is still sleeping, be a good boy and play quietly in your room until he's up ok?" he always does just that without question, like I said he's such a good boy, so well behaved and just quite simply lovely.. this is why it's so upsetting for me to find him quite so annoying once he started talking properly
I think I'll call it "goldfish bowl syndrome"
I feel your pain. My step son
I feel your pain. My step son is a nonstop chatter box. If he runs out of real things to say, he just starts making random noises. While watching a movie, he will tell me to stay close because he "has a thousand questions to ask". Meanwhile, I have a 2 year old boy with autism and he can't speak at all yet. I would love to hear him talk my ear off!
this this this!!! SS does the
this this this!!! SS does the random noise thing too!