Monday Morning Mumbling

School days, I wake Dimitri in the mornings by turning on the bedside light and saying a few "good mornings" and "hey theres". Usually that doesn't work, so after leaving him for a few minutes I start pulling back the covers, I have to pull them off the bed completely or Dimitri will just pull them back over his head again.

If you have to help your child get in the bed the right way round, get out of the bed the right way round, or make sure they are covered with the blankets and duvets properly, don't give up hope for your child learning these things just yet. Dimitri learned all these things much later than would be usual. But we got there. Now the problem is prising the duvet out of his hands (and of course, Dimitri didn't sleep that much when younger, those days, going to sleep was the problem, not getting up)

He does need help getting to the bathroom and getting dressed, and he is always a bit stiffer and slower in the mornings (do I need to say so am I?). This takes quite some persuasion. Sometimes, after the above, pre-getting-up routine, Dimitri will lie face down on the mattress and grip the sides of the mattress.  Trying to get him off would be like trying to prise a limpet off a rock - so I go drink some more coffee... Usually he gets up at this point, we have to be quick to get him to go to the bathroom before he rushes into the living room otherwise it's very hard to persuade him to use the toilet.

This morning Dimitri was sleeping lying on his back with his arms thrown up over his head. From the tips of his fingers to the elbows his hands felt like ice. Every night I try and tuck his hands in the bed, even in his sleep his will pull his arms out again in a slightly irritated manner. It doesn't seem to bother Dimitri that his hands are freezing. It bothers me. I'll be attempting to tuck his hands under the covers tonight as usual.

                                                            

The first day Dimitri wore the above new jumper  pullover, he kept point too his chest and looking up at me with a slight smile. "yes, new jumper" (pullover, I meant to write pullover*) I would say. I don't know if he is trying to say he likes the pullover, doesn't like the pullover, is observing that it's new or whatever. I like to think he is saying he likes it. Well I did chose it after all. What are the young folk wearing these days? I need lessons in "what's cool for kids to wear".

cat with mud

wet pissed off cat

still wet cat

dry but still pissed off cat

dry sleepy cat

So we heard the cat fighting outside, 30 seconds later it runs in covered in mud. It needs lessons in self defense. I washed it. It wasn't happy.

*pullover in Greek is..... pullover, only spelt** funny . You would think as it's the same in both English and Greek there would be no problem, but I'm stuck with using the word jumper out of habit.

** spelt or spelled? Spell check doesn't like spelt.