you better watch out

the flu was here. no, not the piggy flu--thank goodness, because our natty would definitely be one of those that would have to go to the hospital--but the old fashioned kind. natty and i had our shots, but i was kinda late in getting noah his.

he must have picked up the germs the day of or right before because the day after his flu shot he started to get the sniffles. then a fever. then the barfing. i know, it sounds like swine flu, but we've been assured it isn't because the doctor said "he doesn't look sick enough." i wanted to argue that maybe he did have it, just a case where his body was fighting back really well. but they were really busy, and natty was crying and noah kept asking if he was getting another shot, and well, i decided to keep my mouth shut. i figured that if it was the swine flu, then natty and i already have it anyway and at least this way he's been vaccinated in a way.

during the day it was fine, but at night noah's nose got all stuffed up and he couldn't sleep. and if he was awake so was everyone else because he kinda screamed with frustration because he couldn't "breaf with my nose!!!" "i will die!" he said. and the screaming made the baby really unhappy too. and we were all grumpy during the day when noah could nap just fine with his mouth closed. this inability to breath through his nostrils seemed to only happen at night in his bed. i don't think he was completely faking. i think there were a couple of nights where he probably was a little stuffy and it was annoying. but i babied him and let him stay up with me, and now he's at the brink of death every night.

i am not enjoying this new battle to get him to go to sleep every night. i am going to have to start putting my foot down. being the single parent i am right now however, i plan to use Santa Clause as part of my foot putting down plan. you know, the whole "uh oh. santa is watching." thing.

see, we've been dying to get a Wii. dying. but we've put it off because when we borrowed it from a friend once, noah tried to play and he couldn't get the concept of having to point the wand at the sensor. it frustrated him and there was so much throwing of the wand with crying that i called my friend up a few days later and told her to come pick it up. but, he doesn't have that problem anymore and there's been a recent price cut on them, and well, everyone else has one. so that's what Santa is bringing us. it didn't seem to phase noah that santa has chosen the gift for him choosing his own. in fact, i think he was amazed at how perfectly santa knew what his heart desired. and hence, the threat of santa dropping off a lump of coal instead of the Wii is very powerful stuff, i imagine.

the silver lining is that because he's sleeping later, he's getting up later. why, up until last week before all this nostril being stuffed up madness, he popped up like a jack in the box every. single. morning between 5:30 and 6. but, now he cries "mommy, wake up!" (seriously, that's what i wake up to every morning. i'm gonna pay him back when he's a teenager and just walk into his room yelling "noah wake up!" at the top of my lungs on weekend mornings.) at 7 ish! i'm telling you, that is a miracle in my life. 7! that's like, almost normal.

and yes, just like last year, i've brought up christmas even before halloween has passed.....again. sorry. it's just that i really REALLY like that time of year. and this year it's just something that i hope comes soon because although captain j won't be home yet, it'll mean mere weeks until he does come home for good.

AND there will be snow. i love hawaiian christmases, which means that it's probably a nice 74 degrees instead of summer's 78, while we sing carols and unwrap presents. but, i have to admit it kind of gives me butterflies to imagine that we might actually celebrate the way it was meant to be. all huddled together in sweaters before a fire. i'm planning to take the kids and coax some family to a cabin at big bear mountain after a good snow. noah's never seen it before.

but yes. first. halloween.