Friday, May 2, 2008

Addie's bad day

I put Addison down to bed on Wednesday and she was sleeping fine until about 12:30am when she woke up because her feet were stuck in her crib (at least that is what I thought). So I go into her room and push them back through the bars, but she is still crying at that point. So I picked her up and she fell right back asleep. Then after holding her for a few seconds, I put her back down in the crib, she started crying again. This went on for 10 mins, I would pick her up she would be fine, then I would put her down she would cry. So finally I decided (since I was so exhausted) to just bring her into bed with me. We walk back to my bedroom where I guess Jeremy thought I was never coming back because he now looks like a starfish on the bed. I finally wake him up and make him get on his own side only to discover that making him move makes him snore louder. Addison and I are laying beside him and she is fast asleep and Jeremy is fast asleep and I am pissed off because I have to listen to him snore and hold her in my arms. After about 45 mins I poke Jeremy and tell him to go downstairs and sleep on the couch so that I can put Addison down. He grumbles and makes his way to the door. I put Addison on Jeremy's side of the bed only to have to her start crying because I put her down. I grab her hand and hold it and she returns to the deep sleep (I just found out that she has a double ear infection so that explains why she was so clingy to me). After about another 45 mins Jeremy comes back upstairs and tells me he can't sleep on the couch because it is to uncomfortable (mind you, he woke me and Addison from a dead sleep). So he crawls back into bed and proceeds to snore. Addison starts to suck on her thumb to get back to sleep but because her nose is so stuffy she can only suck for a couple seconds and then breath really heavily out of her mouth. I think to myself "hey I should clean her nose out and then she will get back to sleep". At this point it is 3am and I am thinking I will never get back to sleep before I have to go to work. So I stumble downstairs with her in my arms and lay her down on the couch and go find the saline drops and the nasal aspirator. I finally find it and proceed to squirt it up her nose, as she gasps for air and her eyes almost pop out of her head, a huge snot string comes out and she can breath out of one side now. I repeat on the other side. I am to tired to go back upstairs at this point so I just put a blanket over her legs and then I lay down on my stomach on the floor with some pillows and a blanket and drift off into sleep. That is when it happens, "THUMP...WAAAAAA!!!!". Addison, who has never rolled all the way over, rolls off the couch and onto my back. So I am laying on my stomach and she is crying on my back and I can't figure out how I am going to get her off without her falling on the floor. Finally I manage to pull my shoulder out of the socket and grab her and pull her to safety. Then we lay on the floor together and fall back asleep, but only for a couple hours until I hear my alarm go off upstairs at 5:15am. Anyway, the moral to the story is, just because you are super exhausted don't forget to follow the safety guides for children. Oh and kill your snoring husbands!!!!

1 comment:

Caren Williams said...

No Aimee do not kill your snoring husband, get him one of those sleep masks, they are truely amazing!!!!