The time change, well, yes we lost an entire hour of our day- and I miss that hour.
My day struggles to exist on less time- and is constantly in need of more time.
However, as we've jumped our clocks forward, waking up to silence this morning was a very nice start to the day.
And then, well,
My trusty Mr. Coffee- well it served it's last Peppermint Mocha with Almond milk!
So that was disappointing this morning.
Then the day continued quite nicely- I finished my latest project and I can't wait to reveal it- it's just gorgeous!!! (Well I think so!)
I saw this flower in bloom in the garden- what a great reminder of this lovely spring weather that is coming our way- trees in bloom, flowers in bloom, things are green and lush and well it's just lovely!
And then my little guy did this for Brian and I..... gotta love when he's in this kind of mood!
Yes those are margarita glasses (outdoor plastic one's of course), a bottle of Margarita already to drink (it's quite delicious- from Costco!), a few snack foods, and his last touch was going back into the house, and getting the nicely arranged flowers he picked for me from the garden on Friday and put into a lovely Mason jar
Pretty perfect, and Brian went and got the outdoor campfire, and for the first time this year, it was campfire, margarita's, and just simply chilling!
It was nice, then our next moments, well, they became very different moments!
I'll give the quick low down- obsessive behavior over making our own pizza's
Locking us out of the house
Then making lemonade for all to share
Then obsessed with pizza's again
Then yelling and screaming and knocking over patio chairs and locking us out of the house again
Then all is calm, until he perceived his pizza as being burnt
Knocking over things, locking himself in our room- and then quiet!
He's asleep under the bed and it's only 6:00pm
Then he wakes up, enjoys his pizza and we have lots of laughter around the dinner table.
And then he chooses to take a bath (thank goodness, that little boy stinks!)
Then he gets himself all set up for the bath- now it requires quite a bit of lego's, organizing what he wants to bring into the bath, and some lego building prior to bath- so ultimately he gets into the bath.... and after about 3 minutes..
He's screaming once again- saying the water is cold
Brian turns up the temperature, and he is still unsatisfied with the temperature and gets angry once again...
He throws all the toys of the bathroom, he throws water on the floor, he screams some more, and then he simply picks up a bucket full of water, gets out of the tub and proceeds to throw it on the carpet in the living room!
We ignore him (it's part of the behavior plan0
He refills this bucket and again throws it in the same spot on the carpet in the living room.
Brian is about to lose it... I remind him we have to ignore the behavior... and Ty again fills the bucket and dumps the water... and then does it one more time before Brian has to take control of him. This sucked!
there is simply not much we can do, ultimately Brian can no longer restrain Ty, between still recovering from surgery about 8 weeks ago and his abdomen still be sore at times and his back which has once again been bothering him- I didn't want Brian to get hurt- it's only water... (well sort of!)... As items were thrown, objects knocked off shelves, and his little fit of property destruction continued, I grabbed a giant couch pillow and started to pretend to be a cave man (grunting noises only) and use the cushion to essentially Sumo Wrestle him
This could have gone one of 2 ways- he either gets more angry and destructive or as my plan was really hoping, he couldn't keep up the anger and it refocused him perfectly.. and so for the next 20-30 minutes I only grunted silly deep noises and sumo wrestled him... with the intent to give him some good proprioceptive input that provides a nice calming effect to help him gain some control over his own body!
He fell for my plan perfectly, he wasn't angry, he couldn't stop laughing and the play continued on.. .luckily!
But as we've lost one hour in our day, and my head is still spinning from all the events that took place in the last 5 hours- I sit quietly here, pausing for a moment, realizing this is the day of change once again. Once again, we are springing our clocks forward, moving our hours ahead, taking one away, my flowers are beginning to bloom, the weather is beginning to change, the season is coming to an end quickly- and so with this change, as usual for our little guy, this change has proved to be just a bit much!
Is it any different then the day we changed our clocks last spring? Nope, and it's not any different from the day we changed our clocks back when he was 3 or 4!
And if it isn't changing them forward, it's changing them back only a few short months ago...
Again having it's impact on my little guy ... and as great as some moments were today, although brief,
it is a reminder once again that the universe is in constant change- and even though we try and do what we can to help Ty, sometimes it just doesn't matter.
And at 9:35pm tonight, as he FINALLY got onto the potty- and has now been sitting for about 30 minutes, Brian just comes out and tells me "the bag didn't drain"!
Which means the bag of solution we use to irrigate his bowels, didn't drain and there fore he has been sitting there for absolutely no reason because well
his bag didn't drain! UGH
This is just the thing to happen at the very end of this day that we lost an entire hour.
And although we are all exhausted at this point, and want to desperately climb into the bed and close my eyes, it's just not gonna happen at this point- we have to use every trick in the book to keep him on the potty- and it's 9:40pm! arrrggggghhhhh!
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