Election Day Smiles
November 7th, 2008Photos from Jeremy and Liss taken while we all awaited the wonderful national results on Tuesday …
I think I have the flu. Someone shoot me. Or hug me. Or make me well?
The kid does have a crib in our room BTW. She just doesn’t want to sleep in it. But she does. Sometimes. Other times not so much, ’cause it’s hard for ME to sleep with a kid standing up in a crib screaming in my room. We’ll work it out. We have to, because it’s become dangerous for her to sleep in our bed. Last night she almost fell off the side; I caught her under the arms at the last second. And Steve reported that he woke up in the middle of the night just in time to see her crawling toward the foot of the bed; he scooped her up about a centimeter before the edge. Does it sound to you like WE are getting any sleep? She seems to be just restless in her sleep. She falls deeply asleep on one of us and then as soon as we lay her OH SO GENTLY YOU CANNOT IMAGINE HOW GENTLY into her crib BOOM! Screamin’. And yes, I have been trying the “self-soothing” (aka let-her-cry-herself-to-sleep) thing during the day with her naps. Sometimes it works. Other times after 45 minutes I have two choices: Pick her up or start drinking Drain-o to self-soothe MYSELF. My sense is that she is feeling some stress right now. Maybe I will make her an appointment with my psychotherapist. “Ga? Pbblbbt? And how did that make you feel?” I do have some highly recommended books about sleeping and babies. Maybe I should read them or something.
November 7th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Booo…I’m so sorry you aren’t sleeping AND you have the flu. I hope that all of you are holding up okay and that Violet gets out of this phase soon!
November 8th, 2008 at 4:44 am
We had a bed rail for a while to keep Stefan from falling out. Some nights I still have both boys in the bed while Erik ends up in Stefan’s bed. At least he doesn’t get kicked that way.
Hang in there. I hope you feel better soon!
November 8th, 2008 at 5:20 am
Oh, I so feel your pain! Beware the books… they just made me feel like a rotten mother.
November 11th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Hey you two guys are her favorite people. She just wants to be part of the action. After all Mom and Dad get to sleep together, what about Violet?
Sorry you are not feeling well. Tough being a mommy and then being sick on top of it.
Wishing you well and Violet learnes to sleep in her own crib.