So the sprained shoulder? Turns out it is a broken collarbone.
Her busy little immune system? So busy fixing broken bone it forgot to fight off the cold going around preschool - yep 102 degree fever.
Fun times at Chez Papaya.
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Like Maggie Gyllenhaal who nurses her 8 month old daughter in public and KNOWS it's not a big deal - I mean AAP says a MINIMUM of a year so why is 8 months SO shocking?Like Joley Fisher who had a homebirth and did not hide it like some pariah - her body did what it's meant to do in a place where fewer interventions lowered her risk of complications.
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After her first friend sleepover (luckily with other children’s parent in the home as well) Papaya ended up quite uncomfortable. Why you ask? She fell out of bed.
Now, we’ll not go into the fact that in her short lifetime this has happened a few times because it really is normal I think. The thing is - this night it was all bad luck. The bottom half of her body hit the friend’s mattress on the floor so her entire body weight hit the ground (tile in her new bedroom, damn design flaw) on her right shoulder. Before when she’d fallen out of bed I’d pick her up, cuddle her and she’d fall back asleep in minutes. Not this time - she was still wincing in pain thirty minutes later and telling me her shoulder hurt.
We loaded up and drove to the ER. She was more worried that they might notice the splinter in her hand and try to take it out (bad last visit to her Pediatrition with a handful of splinters from Tutu and Bumpa’s gate) then her shoulder. A few X-Rays later she had a new sling, a bit of motrin in her and advice to rest her sprained shoulder and ligament. To my single girlfriends - there is one HOT ER Doctor on the overnight shift at Castle, in case of course you are in need of services provided. Papaya invited him home for cupcakes but alas I’m very happily married, so the poor guy had to go without, cupcakes.
At first she could not raise her arm or rotate it above 8 o’clock. Forty eight hours later she has almost full range of motion back without any medication and we only occasionally bump it in a way that hurts. She’s even going back to school tomorrow after a week long vacation - she is VERY excited to see her play friends again.
Me? I’ll just get back to unpacking…..so goes the life of a military wife. I’ll also pray that Papaya’s bad luck streak ends - in the time Adventure Dad has been out to sea she has stepped on a tack (in our yard?), had the shoulder injury, and then was in our new hammock chair when the O ring in the tree fell and she/her friends all crumpled down. I am SO ready for another parent and a wind of good luck to come back to our town!
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About a month ago I decided to homeschool Papaya. I gave notice at her Montessori preschool and prepared by joining groups, planning playdates and looking forward to more time with my daughter.
When alone though - I worried, a lot. Not about if I’d be able to “teach” her - we all know that children learn as readily as they breathe. I mean I’m no expert but I managed not to mess up the walking, talking, potty training and so forth, right? But the worry was more about taking her out of a school I think is doing a great job of child-led free play, a school that is hard to get into - was I letting it go to quickly?
I worried and I worried - even having a few alone crying moments (and a lot of mind racing stressing about it mid-driving places). Then I realized - I want Maya to get to continue to enjoy school for what a Montessori education is at this age - a daily four hour playdate. With a variety of children, great resources and long-term relationships that I was just not ready to steal her away from.I had made a mistake pulling her out and wanted to send her back for half days, she’d only been out of school for ONE school day….would there still be space? I realized this at six a.m. this morning and resisted walking across the street to the home of her Preschool Director (yes, she lives across the street) and instead left a message at her office.
She called back and said that they missed her (her friends were asking after her this a.m.) and would love to have her back. I dropped her off with some worry that I was “giving up” but a whole lot less stress than I had about taking her out altogether. What I need to do with this gift, the gift of realizing a mistake and being able to solve it, is get over the ideals I’ve set about being “crunchy enough” or the like and just enjoy being a Mom. When my princess is home in the afternoons - don’t get things “done” but rather hang out with HER, doing her things and enjoying who she is and our time together.
So there I go - making decisions, changing my mind, working it out - this parenting thing is so incredibly hard (emotionally) when each and every choice feels so very important and messing it up seems like the worst thing in the entire world. Let’s hope my kid makes it through her childhood with a minimum of scars (physical and emotional) and I do too. I may homeschool her once preschool has passed as many homeschooling families do - time will tell and I’ve got two years to make up my mind!
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Papaya and I are walking back to our bathroom, as I was making dinner she had a bit of a accident and the stench from her panties filled the room. She does not respond well to freaking out, and honestly I don’t have the energy, so when we have accidents I sort of quietly sigh and tell her we are going to go clean her up then proceed to do just that. It’s not much worse, or maybe it’s even even, with changing diapers and we have less and less in the way of accidents every week around here.
Back to the story - we are walking (I’m walking, she’s waddling around the poop in her panties) to the bathroom and she looks up at me all thoughtful and says “this is a bummer Mom?”
“Yep” I say, “total bummer” and I keep walking - down the hall towards wipes, the toilet and a new fresh pair of princess panties.
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It seems we’ve moved into the phase of tantrums, so closely following the phase of poopy panties (one of my least favorite and honestly not totally over yet) I’d hoped for a short respite at least. Alas, it was not the way of the parenting world for me to get that kind of break.
We now meet horrid transitions of pain (like waking up from a nap, coming home from school or having to DO anything we do not want to) with the appropriate level of screaming and crying (I don’t think there exists a low level - the only humanly appropriate levels seem to be 10.0 and upward). No bribery works, no reasoning and often waiting out is a lesson in futility (although it sure seems to clear a room of all with the mind or body ability to do so). We had thirty minute tantrum of tears over me not allowing her (through my idiotic lack of knowledge on the subject) to carry the bird-feeder with me to the seed, then having the audacity to pour the seed in myself when she was (rightly so after such a wild offense to the senses) crying her head off over carrying an empty bird feeder. It followed into refusing any and all snacks other than the blessed cheetoes (I rue the day she was first exposed to those evil things as a special birthday treat for some preschool classmate on his birthday) of which I had the clearly evil nature to refuse her since we had none (poor excuse). Once dry sourdough toast was decided on she ate half a slice and slipped back into her sweet child persona waiting for the next offense at which to let out her alternate personality out of the bag. I should name that other girl, because it sure ‘aint my Papaya. Maybe Carrie like the movie? I can see it now;
“How is my Papaya doing?”
“I don’t know honey, but Carrie’s been around a lot lately and I’m ready to have Papaya back from her vacation!”
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It is six a.m. she wanted to wake up. I’d been asleep for only a few hours thanks to the frogs playing in the leaves outside our window. We are watching The Backyardigans and I’m playing the internet to stay awake as long as possible on this “cool” morning in Hawaii (lower sixties! this is freezing people).
Jordan came again to save my blog when I messed it up with the last video, thanks. Formatting fun people, I know your envious.
In other news Papaya and I went to the Big Island where she got to walk and feed a dog, feed a horse (or three), hold a baby lamb, feed chickens then steal a fresh egg from the coop, watch whales “spit” but not jump, throw coral rocks into fields of larger coral rocks and walk on lava. Heck she even got to learn more about the petroglyphs - “see Mommy, that one is a circle!” One morning on vacation she rolled over to me in bed around seven a.m. (this part annoys me, the girl used to sleep until nine until I started her on that darn preschool thing) and said “look Mommy, the sun is up, isn’t it amazing?” Yes honey, it sure is.
Note the chickens were fed grass and roots. And come to think of it they were much more interested in the leftover pizza than the grass that she pulled right up out of the ground three feet from their cage.
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Today is Papaya’s third birthday and we threw a “messy” birthday party for over thirty children and parents. Yes, I am crazy. I’m also blessed with a lot of help (thanks Mom, Uncle Pono and Auntie Aute) and the beautiful home/yard and Hawaiian weather.
First - the cake - an amazing beauty from Cake Lava
Of course we had craft stations - but more important was the wild gecko hunting!
Back to what I can take credit for, first we had decorating your own ribbon wand with glue and glitter.
Second, painting with tempra on paper, a compost box and our bodies.
And….water play!
It was awesome - really. The children ran around in packs, and the parents caught up on good stories and ate great food (sandwiches, chips, pizza, fruit and veggies after the cake which we ate early).
I’m sure I’ll later have more poetic things to say about my girl growing up, how to throw this style of party or something but right now I want her to video chat with Adventure Dad in England and go to sleep so I can too!
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As my toddler and I sit watching a friend nurse her twins she pretends to nurse on the ball she’s holding in her hand (pink, a gift from her Dad). I ask her if she’d like to cuddle and pretend to nurse on me.
“Your boo boos have no milk mommy - they are to low.”
Yeah, let’s not even start to talk about HOW or WHY they are no longer perky - okay?!?!
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