Challenging weeks

Sometimes I swear if I hear "brm brm brm" or "sh-sh-sh" one more time, I'm going to lose it. Well, I hear it a lot, he actually starts talking when wakes up and is almost done by the time he falls asleep, but he also speaks at night. Man, that's annoying. I don't care how important it is for the development of his speech...mamma needs some minutes of silence. Seriously. On Wednesday he made a morning-drunk guy on the tram really pissed by his constant syllable talking. On Thursday it was public holiday in Estonia and his dad took him out for an hour. One hour of silence. Wonderful.

His constant talking is annoyance number 1. Number two is definitely him being so clingy. I am seriously not allowed to sit in front of my laptop when he's awake. He requires me being present at whatever he is doing and listen to him talking and then me translating it into my adult language. I hate the two-piece puzzles he loves now (a perfect opportunity to listen to more "brm brm brm" and "sh-sh-sh" and "rrrrrrrr"), the memory game (lots of animals he loves to name and sign), I hate the train (sh-sh-sh), I seriously can't stand the train, the wooden Brio train is even sleeping with us in case he wants to play with it at night (isn't it wonderful to listen to sh-sh-sh at 2:30am?), I am quite ok with him drawing - even though he is constantly asking me to draw him "sh-sh-sh" :-) Luckily, if I refuse, he has no problems to draw it himself and ask me again to draw it for him, I guess he doesn't care that much what we are drawing, he just loves to talk (tell me what to draw).

I found out that "brm brm brm" is more bearable in the open space, so we go outside a lot just to save me from a meltdown.