Sleep Deprivation Induced Hallucinations and Play Time

But not the two at the same time.

So, about this sleep deprivation. Wednesday afternoon, I'm sitting there pumping milk and all of a sudden I jerk awake to milk all down the front of me and standing right in front of me, larger than life is Mickey Mouse...yes, that M I C K E Y M O U S E, in a G string pole dancing! It was a truly frightening site to have the much adored mouse by millions of tots world wide, gyrating and doing truly un-mouskateer like things in my front room.

I am however grateful that it was Mickey Mouse and not Winnie the Pooh as there is a whacking great big WtP sitting atop the armoire in our bedroom and I don't think I'd have ever been able to go to sleep with that thing staring down at me had it been WtP standing there in a G string, gyrating that great big golden yellow bum of his around a pole. Nope, that woulda traumatized me for life. It's kind of along the same lines as hearing your parents have sex. *shivers*

I'm pretty sure I can blame the dream, or whatever it was on the fact that Gidget thinks that 12Am to 5Am is a bloody great time to be bug-eyed and wide awake. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've been sitting there in the middle of the night nursing her and jerked awake to her staring at me, with milk squirting everywhere.....all over her, all over me, the bed clothes, across the room....you name it, it probably has breast-milk on it. And all the while, she just lays there staring at me, probably thinking what a great big cow I look like. *lol*

So in an effort to keep her awake during the day a bit more, and noticing a lot of the other Mom's in my Mom's club are doing the same thing (we all must be quite a site, as we're all complaining about the lack of sleep, not getting dressed till 9pm, eating cold cereal straight out of the box, and falling asleep whilst on the toilet), I've decided to start "play time" with Gidget each morning. So far we're up to about 90 minutes before she either starts acting like she's not seen a meal in ages, or before she falls asleep.

This was from Wednesday's play time. Her first sit down in the swing. I'm not too sure what she thinks of it. I can tell you though the 16 lullabies it plays are annoying as all get out!

And this is from this morning, right before she went into her bouncy seat, the very same seat I still haven't put the batteries in yet. I have to get some more today - so maybe by this time next week I'll be able to tell you what the seat does. Anyhow, she was just kickin' back on Mom and Dad's bed whilst Mom set the seat up. After that she watched me sort laundry and shove some dry Cherrios down my throat.

And it appears that our little "Time Share" kitty cat has not forgotten about us. Although, she's gotten FAT lately, and I mean positively corpulent. I'm thinking she might be pregnant but I can't be sure. I guess only time will tell.

Anyhow she came in for a visit yesterday morning and is not altogether sure what to make of Gidget. She got about a good foot away from her and the minute Gidget moved or made a sound, Beaches tore off to the kitchen and took refuge under the table. I rather think my little girl scares the crap out of the cat. *lol*

Here's Beaches enjoying some of her own play time in the office chair.