8:30 or so on this week-starting Monday, and work came at me like an avalanche today. Who knew a week of work sandwiched in between two weeks of vacation would be stressful? Everything to catch up on, everything to make up time on and get done early. Ugh.
Sharaun and Keaton are out again, and I’m using every ounce of my internet prowess to once again play gumshoe in search of an old breakbeat mix I had on tape back in highschool. I’ve written about the mix before here on the blog, and I’ve been searching for it now for something like ten years. I feel like I made some more progress in recalling some tracks which were featured on it, but try as I might, I can’t seem to find mention of a “common” southern US DJ set featuring them all… I’ll never give up!
OK then. Another entry about Keaton today… seems to be a theme of late.
Sharaun went to the gym early this morning, somewhere around 5:30am. She does it a couple times a week when she can, since Keaton’s sleeping and I’m home with her doing the same. She usually gets back to find me about ready to head out to work and Keaton still down. This morning though, sometime after she left I stirred in bed to a noise in our room. Chalking it up to the cat getting into something, I hunkered back down into my fetal position. Right after that though, I jumped as a sleepy little voice said, “Hi Daddy. I waked up.” Opening my eyes, Keaton was there, staring up at me.
Noticing that not much morning light was trying to push its way through the cracks in the blinds, I grabbed the iPhone to see what time it was. At the same time I reached out and tussled Keaton’s hair with my other hand. 6:03am. She was standing there with her hair all mooshed and tangly and clutching her babydoll (it was Claudia, I have seriously come to know them by name). I told her, my voice crackly with the first words of the day, “Keaton, it’s too early to wake up baby. You have to go back to bed.” And then, “Do you want to go back to your room and climb back into your big girl bed, or do you want to sleep her with Daddy?”
“I want to sleep with Daddy,” she replied. “OK,” I said, scooping her and Claudia up alongside me and covering them with the comforter. I had some doubts I’d get any more sleep, as bringing Keaton into bed with us has never worked in the past. She ends up wanting to play more than she wants to sleep, and, eventually, she’ll actually ask to go to her crib to get some real sleep if she gets tired enough – she’s never slept a whole night with us in the bed. But, she actually settled right down and I started to drift off.
Sometime later, I was roused as by a tiny hand settling over my mouth and Keaton saying, “Don’t snore Daddy.” I chuckled, and didn’t move her hand as I tried to get back to sleep. Over the next fifty minutes or so, she put her hand over my mouth (and one time a little bit over my nose too) and implored me not to snore twice more. I thought it was the cutest thing, and secretly hoped Sharaun would come home and see us asleep there, Keaton cuddled into my armpit with her hand over my mouth – and sneak a picture so I could see what we looked like.
But, by the time Sharaun got home my alarm had gone off and I’d gone back to take a shower while leaving Keaton to watch a new Backyardigans with some juice and graham crackers (a Dad-style pre-breakfast snack, I suppose). Owell.
G’nite.
That’s completely adorable. Lauren woke me up one time after she had climbed into bed and said, “Mommy, wake up. Your breath is too loud.”