THE PITS!!!

[brigid]

I was cutting up some cherries today and Niko objected. He could just eat them whole! The way he eats grapes! And carrots! No no, I said. They have pits, I said.

He looked at me like I was full of shit.

He actually gives me this look a lot, because I say all kinds of crazy shit like “you can’t eat a box of granola bars for breakfast” and “don’t paint the rug” and “your fingers don’t belong up your butt.”

“MAMA,” he said, “a pit is something YOU FALL IN. It is IN THE GROUND. It is a BIG HOLE that you fall in and get lost in.”

So we had a conversation about cherry pits (and peach pits), and pits that are holes in the ground, and arm pits.

Later on I tucked him into bed for a nap and then took a shower. As I was drying off I heard a big thump and then sad noises. He made his way into the bathroom, sniveling.

“Oh, Niko, did you fall out of bed?”

“No. I tumbled.”

Well there you go.

He also had a freak out when I wouldn’t let him eat an entire bag of dried cherries. When I wouldn’t open the bag, he reassured me that it was ok, he’d open it himself. I put it on a shelf. He flipped his shit. Among the insults he slung at me? “YOU ARE NOT A PERSON!” I… do not know where that came from.

He is, in general, in a “I’ll do it MY! SELF!” mood where everything but pulling up his own pants is concerned. He’s pretty much toilet trained except for sometimes he pees on his bed when he wants a bath (RAGE METER FILLED. WHY WOULD YOU DOOOOOOO THAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT) and he’s wet the bed twice overnight possibly because he’s had a nightmare. So we’re back to pullups while sleeping, even though he’s totally dry 99% of the time. He also likes to get himself “a nice cool fresh glass of water.” AWWW ADORBS. I FORGIVE YOUR URINE ANTICS.

IN OTHER NEWS, I was all on top of things and ahead of the game, and took Niko in for his dental exam and check up/physical and got his school forms filled out so I’d be all ready to enroll him… and I’ve lost those forms. CRI CRI. No idea where they are. I guess I put them someplace safe? So safe they’re safe EVEN FROM ME. Good job, me. Good job.

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Comments

[untonuggan]

I don't think I ever remember wanting a bath as a child, especially not enough to pee the bed. More often than not my mom had to drag me into the bath, where I would promptyly refuse to leave.

Kids. I don't even. You get 100 Bajillion medals from me for the parenthood thing.

[brigid]

His baths mostly involve him playing with water squirties in the tub. It's fun! And I recently redid the bathroom including putting all his tub toys in a hanging mesh bag and he can see them all and almost reach them and he wanted to play with them and when he wets the bed horribly (like, a torrential deluge) in the middle of the night I give him a fast bath while I'm changing his sheets. So, you know, it made sense to him. (also, I didn't want to reward him by changing his Thomas The Tank Engine sheets for his Cars 2 sheets, so I put plain brown sheets on his bed. He got all excited. OH MY BROWN SHEETS. I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU IN SO LONG. I LOVE MY BROWN SHEETS. Child!!! What the hell! LOL.)

[untonuggan]

Since I just got myself bath toys (yes, I did), I can kind of understand the appeal. But...what? Wetting the bed? *facepalm*

[al_zorra]

Sweetie, I'm so sorry your job ended in the only way it could end. What you've endured I can only imagine from my time(s) in such conditions when I was young and starting out.

However, it's lovely to see you able to spend more time with your son and doing those things too.

All best wishes for the future improving with more balance.

Love, C.

[brigid]

Yeah, he's... he's three. It's... a different kind of logic. There's logic there, but it's not adult logic. also, he didn't WET the bed. He PEED ON THE BED. He's wet the bed at night twice. He was asleep, he woke up wet and freaked out, he was uncomfortable, it was possibly caused by a nightmare. Accidents happen. This was not an accident.

[brigid]

Aw, thank you.

And "young and starting out..." I am not young or starting out, so I kind of didn't expect to be treated like someone who's young and/or starting out. And I feel so, so bad for the people who work there who ARE young and starting out. I do NOT think it's a coincidence that the manager hired, at the same time he hired me, a guy who's juuuuust 21 and had never had any kind of job before (and who seems like he might be on the Spectrum, I say not as an insult but as a statement of his behavior/personality. I LOOOOOOVED working with him, but he has some interpersonal difficulties) and a guy who's 19 and also had never worked anywhere before. I think he specifically hires people he thinks he can bully because they don't know to expect anything else/won't stand up for themselves. And for the most part it's working, I guess.

[al_zorra]

I hear you on that, "not young and just starting out."

This pillaged, outsourced, feral capitalist economy run by the oligarchs for the oligarches via beating the drums of hate and jingoism is not a good place for anyone, of any age, nor for earth, plants and animals.

Not that knowing these things is of any comfort at all.

Love, C.

[untonuggan]

I...don't even. You get 100 gold medals for patience.