Nighttime conversations
This post is being dictated by Yenari because I have no memory of the following conversations (if you can call them that). At night, when Yenari needs some help she tries to wake me up, but sometimes I’m in a totally zoned out, half asleep, incomprehensible state. Other times I actually do get up and help, but this post is not about that! Here are three examples Yenari would like you all to know about…
Gotta go!
This one is from early on in Hazel’s life. Yenari was having difficulty with breastfeeding and needed everything in its right place for it to work properly – she needed her Brest Friend setup, pillows behind her, and pillows under Hazel’s head. It was my job to pickup Hazel from her bassinet and perfectly place her in the right position.
| Hazel: | wah wah wah wah |
| Yenari: | (kicks Greg) I’m all setup, give me the baby |
| Greg: | (gets up, walks towards bassinet, keeps walking out the room, goes to bathroom) |
| Yenari: | (what the ?? I guess he really needs to go) |
| Hazel: | Wah Wah Wah Wah |
| Greg: | (flushes toilet, washes hands, returns to the room, passes the bassinet, gets back in bed, falls back to sleep) |
| Yenari: | uhhh….. |
| Hazel: | WAH WAH WAH WAH |
Why?
This one is from last week. Yenari’s got the breastfeeding down, but she still relies on me to burp Hazel most of the time. This time however, I wasn’t quite sure it was necessary…
| Yenari: | (finishes feeding Hazel, kicks Greg) Baby, would you burp her? |
| Greg: | Why? |
| Yenari: | …because…I fed her? |
| Greg: | Why did you do that? |
| Yenari: | uhhh….. |
I’ll think about it
This one is from a few weeks ago. Hazel had been crying all night long but I was totally passed out and not waking up even when Yenari pushed and kicked me. When she finally got me to wake up enough to talk, here’s how our conversation went
| Yenari: | Would you help me? |
| Greg: | I will think about it (falls back asleep) |
| Yenari: | (ass****! takes care of Hazel for another 5 minutes, kicks Greg again, says angrily) DID YOU THINK ABOUT IT? |
| Greg: | Yah |
| Yenari: | and? |
| Greg: | I don’t think so (falls back asleep) |
Hours later, in the morning:
| Greg: | (well rested) So, I guess she slept pretty well last night, huh? |
| Yenari: | (burning a hole in Greg’s head with her angry eyes) |
| Greg: | (hmm….maybe not? better get to work fast!) |
Luckily these particular incidents aren’t exactly representative of the last few months…Yenari’s eager for me to type out another couple stories like this, but I think three is enough, right? If she wants to write more, maybe she should get her own blog!
5 Comments »
August 9th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Funny, funny
August 9th, 2009 at 11:20 am
hilarious!
August 9th, 2009 at 11:23 am
yenari – START A BLOG! this is too good.
August 9th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Totally hilarious! I definitely laughed out loud. Troy’s usually pretty good about getting up when I ask him (although it’s only been 3 weeks, so maybe the novelty will wear off), but I cracked up one night when Ewan started crying and Troy stayed asleep but said “shh” and started stroking the pillow next to him. He’s also always very eager to tell everyone what a good night it was. I sometimes have a different opinion
August 9th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Oh man, I think I might have some rediculous conversations in my future. Joe already agrees with me in his sleep – without my having asked him anything. I might be awake while he’s asleep, and he’ll roll over to face me and say something like “OK.” or “yep.” or “mm-hmm” And I haven’t said anything whatsoever. It’s interesting me that it’s always an affirmative.