An important phrase every child must know

[elfs]

Last night, Kouryou-chan learned a most important phrase. "It's not fair! I want to stay up like Yamaarashi!" Trying to explain to a three-and-a-half year-old that she needs more sleep than her sister, that it's only a half-hour difference, and that if I put them to bed at the same time they'll just talk and keep each other up, didn't work. Because it was so late and she was so tired, she managed to wind herself up into a big kicking and screaming tantrum that wouldn't stop.

Omaha made it home about twenty minutes into this and helped calm her down enough that we convinced her to go to sleep, but only by letting her fall asleep in her parent's bed, with me. By the time Omaha finally went to bed, I was asleep and so must have been Kouryou-chan because when I awoke later that evening, Kouryou-chan was already moved to her bed.

Yamaarashi-chan, in contrast, went to bed with a hug and a kiss and without a complaint.

About three in the morning, though, I get awakened by the sound of monsters. There's this horrible screeching, moaning sound going on out side my window. I live in a relatively quiet neighborhood, but there is an access road for the airport about a quarter mile from the house. The county was repaving it. The screaming came from a depaver, which tears up the old layers of road and roughens the surface, getting it ready for a new layer of asphalt. The windows are nicely soundproofed, though, and although the day had been a scorcher temperatures had fallen into the low 60's so closing them was not a problem.

Comments

Re: Three AM?!?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

The Powers that Be had decided that inconveniencing the neighborhood at night was significantly less problematic inconveniencing the cargo trucks that service the backside of the airport in the daytime.

Re: Three AM?!?

[lisakit.livejournal.com]

Are there no noise laws for your area? You could refer to those if the not-sleeping goes on for too long.