Sensory Overload

Our house is loud.  Samuel doesn't have camp the entire month of August, so we are home together or running errands everyday.  The house is significantly louder with just him around.  On the days all three kids are home there is no silence.  Samuel and Joseph are always running around the house, chasing each other, laughing, screaming, fighting.  You name it.  Simone is getting her voice too.  Two days ago she started to say "Uh-Oh".  So now every time she is in her high chair she drops her food, forks, drink on the floor just so she can say "Uh-Oh."  She is also getting in on the screaming and yelling.  She and Joseph fight a lot over toys.  Joseph is not a sharing type of guy.  We are always making him share with Samuel and Simone, but he doesn't like it.  Now if he takes a toy from Simone she starts screaming and tries to grab it back.  The bad part about her new found voice and temperament is that she is also starting to pinch and trying to bite.  At first we laughed because we couldn't believe she was getting so feisty, but now we are stepping in because we don't want her to do that when she starts school in September.

Okay, so besides the kids being extremely loud the workers in the basement are making my head pound.  The framing got finished on Tuesday, then the electricians and plumbers were here yesterday and today.  It has been constant banging and drilling.  I am ready for the finished product.  It will be at least two of three more weeks before it is all done.

Not only are my days filled with noise, but the nights haven't been the greatest either.  Samuel has been having tons of nightmares.  He wakes up and comes into our room and wants to get in bed with us.  Normally his little heart is pounding like crazy and he is totally freaked out.  Dave and I decided after a few nights of us being lazy and not walking him back to his room right away that we will be creating a bigger problem by letting him come into bed with us.  So the last few weeks we have been walking him back to his room and then laying with him for a little while to calm him down and then coming back to our bed.  Samuel never puts up a fight (other then to tell us that he thinks our bed is really comfortable and would rather sleep in our bed), but he is usually fine as soon as he gets over being scared.

He has been asking for bunk beds in his room so that he could sleep on top and Joseph could sleep on the bottom.  He said he wouldn't come into our room anymore if Joseph was sleeping with him because then he wouldn't be as scared.  Last night he asked if Joseph could sleep with him.  So we set up the blow up mattress on the floor and Samuel slept in his bed and Joseph slept on the blow up mattress.  Well, Samuel stayed in his room all night.  He did try to wake Joseph up in the morning when he got up, but Joseph ended up sleeping until about 7am, which is better then normal too.  Dave said we might be seeing a bunk bed in our future.

You would have thought that I would have finally gotten a good night sleep, well you would be wrong.   Dave decided last night that he was going to snore his head off.  For about an hour in a half last night I was kicking and punching him to get him to stop snoring.  It was extremely annoying.

Here's hoping to a restful evening.  I need some serious sleep.

I'm off to listen to the symphony of sounds.