Reno Baby
I really should be napping right now. Grace is sleeping soundly. We were both up at all hours of the night last night as she is going through a growth spurt--or something--and wakes up every 1-2 hours to chatter and talk in her crib.
Why can't I sleep? Because of the noise. How is this kid able to sleep through this noise?
(By the way, if you are going to click on any of the following links? Turn up your speakers if you are alone. Turn them down if you're at work.)
First, we have one of Adam's guys working on rebuilding our woefully messed up kitchen floor downstairs. This sounds like "ZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!" (cutting maple hardwood), "BANG! BANG! BANG!" (hammering it into place), "Ka-THUNK! Ka-THUNK!!" (I believe that is the nailgun).
Also, military jets are executing low fly-by's which means that it must be the weekend of the Chicago Air & Water Show. This has never been my favorite weekend in Chicago. I used to live three blocks from the lakefront and I would NEVER check my calendar. Every year without fail, it would be 8:00 am on a sunny Saturday morning and I would be dozing peacefully. Suddenly, my fingernails would be embedded in the ceiling plaster as I was propelled straight into the air by the sound of some jet fighter breaking the sound barrier. And there I would cling, like Wile E. Coyote in a Road Runner cartoon.
Finally, Chicago (The City! That Works! Near Election Time!) decided to begin replacing the sewer system in the street eight houses away from us. This morning. At 7:15 am. With pounding that sounded like the report of a cannon. The house is shaking. I wish I were being overdramatic. But I'm not.
But the baby, is, well, sleeping like a baby.
And I cannot understand it. THIS is the kid who, if a stair tread creaks in the middle of the night, will be wide awake. The kid who is so uber-alert that I have had to nurse her in a dark closet. (I am not kidding.) The kid who, if I so much as breathe or sigh or talk to someone in the next room while she is nursing, will whip her little face towards mine and fix me with a look that says, "Would you shut UP already?! Geez-louise! I'm eating here!"
Yes, THAT kid can sleep through a chop saw, hammers, nail guns, fighter jets, dump trucks and backhoes.
She's a renovation baby. So what's my problem?
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Comments
i don't know for sure, but i have a feeling that being a reno baby and being a reno mommy are two *vastly* different things.
Posted by: amo | August 18, 2006 1:31 PM
I have a feeling that Grace remembers the noises that they were exposed to here while you were pregant with her so to grace the most soothing sounds are constructions sounds, lol. the house and baby are both so beautiful good luck with the new 20 years that is when the fun starts.
Posted by: norma | August 19, 2006 9:04 AM
oh, REN-o baby, not REE-no baby. and here i thought grace had developed a gambling problem. whew...relief...
Posted by: mary | August 19, 2006 9:05 AM
Did you listen to the "talk to someone" clip all the way through? It's a riot! This elderly British woman talking about sharing baths to save water, a panther that used to sit nearby on the rocks so they had to take the dogs out on a lead at night, and how her father, when he used to go out, carried a gun but never shot anything with it. Love this kind of oral history stuff. Hope you get some sleep soon.
Posted by: Kristen | August 19, 2006 9:08 AM
Honestly, in my experience, kids go through periods (in any given night) of very, very deep sleep. There is some research (that I read hardcopy so I have no link for you) that indicates kids are capable of sleeping so deeply they will sleep through the house-sized smoke detector alarm.
And at some points in the night they are very lightly asleep, and a stair squeak will wake them up.
There doesn't seem to be any correlation to how alert they are in awake.
Posted by: wookie | August 20, 2006 2:56 PM