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May 15, 2008
It's opposite week
This has been a topsy turvy week.
Owen's been known to have crappy, sleepless days, but not two in a row. He made up for it by sleeping pretty much all day. That's the good part. The bad part is that after two days of him barely dozing, I wasn't about to set him down in case it woke him up. It probably wouldn't have, but I wasn't taking any chances. The result is that my back and butt hurt even more.
Jamie woke up this morning in a bad mood. The kid has been a morning person since the day she was born, but I think I'm finally starting to rub off on her. In addition to her grumpies, this morning she was complaining that her neck hurt. I'm pretty sure that she just slept on it wrong, since a neck rub and some ibuprofen seemed to help. On the way to school, she said she was tired. I told her she should have slept longer, and she said she just woke up too early. Uh, yeah. Whose fault is that? I'd be willing to pay the kids to sleep past 7, but no one's taking. I had every intention of getting her to nap this afternoon, but between needing to strip the room for the furniture delivery and early TKD, it just didn't happen. Which explains why she fell asleep in the van on the way to TKD.
Katie was such a grump this morning that I put her down for a nap less than an hour after dropping Jamie off at school. I was only slightly surprised that she actually went to sleep. I was shocked that I had to go up and get her three and a half hours later. She was just waking up when I went to get her to pick Jamie up.
As for me, well, all the crap comes when you don't have backup. Last night with Owen screaming and fussing. Then he wouldn't wake up when I tried to nurse him when I went to bed. Fourty-five minutes later, the cat yacking in the bathroom woke me up. I was just falling back to sleep when Owen woke up for his (literally) midnight snack. Then he woke up at six, apparently ready to face the day.
Just to screw everything up further, it was close to nine before the girls went to sleep. The excitement (and letdown) of the new furniture arriving. Jamie is thrilled to be up high in the new bunk bed, Katie is teary because we don't have the full mattress so she can sleep in the bottom.
Maybe, just to keep me on my toes, the girls will sleep in tomorrow morning.
Posted by me at May 15, 2008 9:46 PM