Wednesday, March 3, 2010

A Failure to Communicate

I tried to be reasonable. I tried to be patient. I tried to explain to Cubby that Mommy had a wicked headache this morning thanks to his insistence on waking her up every hour for four hours so that he could satisfy his frankly obsessive addiction to milk. I further explained that the piercing shriek he kept uttering made Mommy feel as if someone was driving an ice pick into the base of her skull and that none of this made Mommy very happy. And do you know what he did? He ignored me.

The nerve of that three-week-old kid. Honestly. You'd think he was a needy newborn or something.

It's a damn good thing he's so cute.

P.S. Can anyone identify what it is that Cubby is napping on in that photo?

14 comments:

  1. Looks like some kind of sleeping MAA-AAA-AAAT.


    Word verification: caphys -- unit of measure for how strong your morning latte is.

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  2. whatever sweet cubby is sleeping on, let me know. do they make them in grown-up size?

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  3. That appears to be a very nice crate mat or dog bed :-)

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  4. One of your dead sheep!!??? Drew is cracking me up.

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  5. sounds like little cubby is not so much addicted to milk as he is to mommy. you might try wearing a tshirt for a few hours so it gets your smell on it, and then using that tshirt as a sheet over that fuzzy mat. worked on 2 of my kids who were cranky.

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  6. Terry made a great suggestion. And Drew's answer was the best.

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  7. Yes, remember when you had the skins of some of your sheep done up so you could use them for cubby to sleep on. I don't know if we knew about cubby then , tho.


    word verification cothir

    a small bed that you rent out

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  8. At least his sleeping surface is warm!

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  9. He's THREE WEEKS OLD?!

    They grow up so fast!

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  10. sheepskin fo shizzle.

    also, they're hard of hearing until... well forever.

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  11. Cuteness is essential to baby survival, I truly believe.

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  12. Growth spurt? My own "cubbies" ate every hour on the hour when they were stocking up for a growth spurt.

    Word verification: cheras - what you put on top of your ice cream sundahs.

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  13. Ooh, ooh, I know! And I, too, want one in grown-up size - except that would be kind of a scary-big sheep.

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