I'm amazed by the resilience of those of you with more than one. DS2.7 is just finally went to sleep about a hour ago and he'll be up again at 6 and raring to go.
What makes me feel in over my head is not so much that I have less energy than him, because having met plenty of energetic little boys I expected that. And with just one between two parents we do manage the time committment okay. My in over my head feeling is that I can't keep up with him in some cognitive ways, and he's still only a toddler.
Our day is a endless litany of lines from books we've read that are relevant to the moments of our day. Because originally it was only a few well-read books that DH, I and DS knew by heart it was fun to go back and forth with lines, pretend to be the characters, etc. It was a rich aspect to our days. But now DS knows a very large number of books fully and recalls parts of ones last read 6 or more months ago and I can not keep up. Not at all. He is not socially mature enough to understand the difference between me not being capable of going back and forth with lines or remembering plots, and not wanting to or refusing to play. It's probably confusing that I can do it sometimes but not others. So both of us are really frustrated. It seems to come up many times a day that mommy has a old brain.
And then there's that he's so easily bored that verbal stories don't hold his attention more than a couple times, and songs can't be sung more than once every couple weeks, etc. Puzzles were great for a while but he is currently bored of them. Mazes were great for a while but he's currently bored of them. Playdoh is still pretty cool so he spends hours a day making playdoh pretend things. I try to convince myself that he's learning independence when he wanders around at loose ends... but really I'd prefer to feel like I was keeping up.
Polly
