Awhile ago Cy started using a non-sensical word for everything. “Tee-kai.” It was during his Brother Bear phase, so I think it’s spin off of one of the character’s names “Kenai,” but still. EVERYTHING. IS. A. TEE. KAI.
“Hey Mommy! I making a tee-kai!” (Pile of pillows on the floor.) That made us think he MEANT teepee. But then, “Hey Mommy! Look! A tee-kai!” became two grapes speared with a chop stick. Still the most mysterious, was Tee-Kai (notice the capital letters) who had “brown skin and white hair.” “He’s my friend!” Or this morning, when Cy told me, “I know how’a get to Music School! Go left at the Tee-Kai!”
It’s lasted for almost a month now, maybe more! So I’m pretty curious to see how this tee-kai business turns out!
I still owe the Internets some serious pictures of my child during his birthday celebrations. So very sorry! Life here has been outrageously busy.
I’m not one for giving out my schedule online- but seriously people, from Saturday night through Wednesday is brutal. Church is way crazy busy on Sunday, and then I rocket through the beginning of the week into a late night at school on Tuesday night when all my homework is due (there goes Monday night). I’m at work in my new position M-F, and teach on Wednesday afternoon. I have to catch up on sleep/running schedule/housework Thursday and Friday, just to fall behind on the school work… and it all starts again. It wouldn’t be as crazy, I don’t think, if Cy were sleeping normally. Lately, though, he’s been up a lot, crying at night, and (GASP) sleeping in our bed. I always freak out when this happens- but then by the time I get a good “approach” in place for how to “address” the “sleeping issues,” he’s over it. It happens every six months or so- and then it’s over. So let’s hope he’ll settle in soon.
To be fair, the kid’s got a lot of change going on in his life! I’m working around 30 hours a week and he started preschool (two mornings a week). John now goes into work early, I go in later, and so sometimes I’m home for dinner sometimes not. I’m also back at school- which means I don’t get home until 10 or 11pm one night a week.
All new stuff.
But I’m holding on to the “happy.” I know this will all work out, we just have to get our groove back, yo.
Groove.
I keep kind of “checking in” with this decision for me to be working again- but it’s kind of twofold right now. a) I LOVE WORKING and b) we need me to work if we ever want to get a handle on those pesky (not little) students loans and you know…get on with life. And the sneaky third reason:
c) plusican’thaveababyrightnowidon’twanttotalkaboutit.
I came home from work yesterday after picking Cy up at school. (He had a fire drill, he did great! Such a big boy.) As I turned onto my street I noticed that the town had painted new yellow lines down the center of the road. At first I was offended- the bright, sharp yellow edges stood out too much. Totally in my face. Completely butting into this whole “natural color scheme” thing we had going on. But then I realized that it’d probably help, you know, keep people on their side.
So that’s what I feel like right now, like I’ve drawn two bright yellow lines down the middle of my life. Some stuff gets to be on this side, some stuff on that side, and right know it’s kind of awkward. Long term, though, it’s the same road. It just looks different. That’s all.
Haha! New Yellow Lines! When they do that on my street in the next town over…the turkeys are scared to walk over it…so they just walk parallel with it…forever. My mom followed them for over a mile one day. Crazy turkeys!
love the yellow lines! well said, and may you survive the crazy busy time, and i can relate! as for Tee Kai, Fynn had a similar phase where everything turned into a NaNow. turned out it came from me saying Not Now far too often, so he adopted it and morphed it into a much less offensive word :).