Last night was one of those nights where you are thankful they are few and far between. We stayed up to watch SNL and just as it was starting, Dan carried Zander back to his own bed. He has been making it a habbit of falling asleep in our bed...mostly because Hayden cries a lot at bed time and it's hard for poor Zander to get to bed. As soon as SNL was over we tured off the t.v and lights and tried to sleep...Until Hayden woke up screaming. He has been doing this for about 2 weeks now where he will wake up anytime from 11pm - 1 am and just start crying and screaming. Since Dan and I had been up with him all week we were both tired and so we decided to bring him in bed with us. After about and hour of squirming around, Hayden finally fell asleep. I was in and out of sleep myself, so I was glad when his moving stopped. I don't think I was asleep for more than 2 hours when Natalie came in crying with leg pain. After I finally came to, I fixed her a hot water bottle and grabbed the "leg lotion." Once she was back in bed I rubbed her legs with the lotion and that seeme to help. I got this baby massage lotion from Origins at Natalie's baby shower and it has been a life saver for her leg pains.
Now that Natalie was better, I hopped back in bed, fell asleep, only to be woken again by our smoke detector. Boy, that is not a fun sound to hear at 4 am. Dan and I both jumped out of bed and did a search upstairs and down, no fire or smoke, so we went back to bed again. Only an hour or two passed and Zander came in looking for his Woody doll that he left on our bed. After I felt around in the dark, I found it and he stumbled back to bed. 7:30 rolled around and the kids were ready to start the day...we were not ready yet and stayed in bed for another hour. Needless to say, we didn't make it to church today...
Now Hayden is screaming again and I shoud go hold him. This reminds me of when he was colicky for the first year. His screaming is really starting to grind on my nerves...wish me luck!
2 comments:
Oh yes parenthood! As I recall you use to get leg cramps, I think it is from growth spurts. I remember when I was young, I use to get them as well.
If you have not checked the smoke detector batteries lately you might try that. That might be a solution if it is a battery operated one, if it is hard wired in, you might have to look at some other things.
Depending on how old it is, it could be a number of things, but you might Google it and see what you find.
Good luck and get some rest!
OMG! Your long night sounds just like the one we had Sat. eve!!! Hunter kept waking up crying and saying he was having bad dreams and then when he wasn't awake crying he was sleeping restless and kicking the sides of his Fire Engine bed. So we'd race in there and then he'd be still and snoozing.
Hayden was so tired from playing in the snow that day and didn't wake up to go potty in the middle of the night and so Shawn was up with him twice.
I think that brings us to 3 am or so???
Tired! Tired! Tired!
I know sister!I know.
:-)
We should write a book about life with 3 children under the age of 6!
I think there's more of us out there experiencing the same thing than we think!!
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