Last night I was so tired that I ended up going to bed at 10pm. Having had only 3 hours of sleep the previous night, I was actually surprised I managed to get through Thursday without falling down. This morning, at 5:20am, Kyle fell off his bed which had me rushing to help him back up. Poor little tyke 🙂 He never fell back to sleep as he kept complaining that there were lady bugs in his bed. He was up for good at 6am. Just another thing in the long line of “cute stuff” that the kids do which cement memories 🙂
Like, take Wednesday night and the reason I only slept 3 hours. Deciding to take advantage of some spare time in the evening, I set up my Author account on the Indigo Chapters website/ community. Then, I allowed myself some reading time. Of course, I ended up going to bed at 1130pm. At midnight, Kyle was up needing to pee. Not unusual for him as he goes through this routine maybe 3 times a week. Get back to bed and at 3am, he’s back at my bedside sounding so sad and miserable and close to tears. “What’s wrong sweetie?” I ask. “Nose not working!” he sobbed, trying to inhale while tapping his nose and not getting anywhere. Poor little guy!! So, I scooped him up and we headed to the bathroom where I gave him some saline mist and then rubbed Vicks on his chest and back. I snuggled him and brought him back to his bed where he did manage to fall back to sleep.
Me? Well, at 4am Charlize started crying which made me jump out of bed. I stopped myself from going to her to see if she would settle back and she did almost immediately so I flopped back onto the bed. At 4:30am or so, Kyle started crying and trashing so I ran over to him and calmed him down. At 5:20am, the same thing. I ran over but he was still asleep so I just tucked him in and went back to bed. 20 minutes later I shrugged and decided to just get up and get the day started.
I will say that I’m really glad the going-to-bed routine has gotten much easier in the last week. Charlize -going through quite an intellectual growth spurt- has been fussy/ tired by 7pm and is usually sleeping soundly by 730pm. Kyle will usually go to bed anywhere between that time and 8pm. Depending on how tired he is, he’ll fall asleep quickly (like wed) or be mischievous (like last night). Yesterday, Charlize got into the full swing of crawling. And, she’s fast. Almost as fast as she is in grabbing whatever she sees on the floor and shoving it into her mouth! You know what else she did? Pulled herself UP on the stairs and literally danced. We’ve got it on camera 🙂 What a cutie 🙂
This weekend: We’re going to the Sugar Shack on Saturday, and we start swimming lessons on Sunday (830am! eek!). Kyle will be on his own for the first time! On the other side of the pool, I’ll be in the water with Charlize. A new routine begins 🙂