Sleep is hard to come by for me in consecutive hours. If it isn't Titus trying to climb into bed with me, then it is Isabele crying mummy, mummy, mummy. Last night was especially wakeful. Isabele woke up at 10, too hot and thirsty. Fixed that and put her back to bed. I went to bed about 10:45. 11PM, Titus was in my room wanting to sleep with me, for no apparent reason. Back to his bed. I'm tired of being poked by a 3 year old all night. Needless to say, sending him back to his bed did not provide me with more sleep. I think it took till about 12:30 for him to really be all the way asleep. During that time, Isabele woke up. It is so hard to know what she understands and what is going on with her. Teeth? Growing pains? Hunger? Brat attack? Finally it dawned on me that maybe it was some or all of those, other than Brat attack, so I gave her some tylenol and took her upstairs for a graham cracker. After eating the cracker and having a drink of water, she was ready for bed. So, back to her room we went. And finally she went to sleep. Titus got me up 2 or 3 more times, but went back to bed nicely. And they both got up for the day at 5:40AM. I guess I really don't need sleep.
The one and only sweet / amusing thing between 11P and 2A was that Isabele at one point wanted me to "sing" "sycmore". What?? "sycmore". I sing 4 songs to them at bedtime each night: "The BIBLE", "Zacheus Was a Wee Little Man", "Jesus Loves Me", and "Amazing Grace". Apparently the part about the Sycamore tree, stands out the most to Isabele. So she got Zacheus very quietly sometime in the middle of the night.
I have been told that this too shall pass, and that I won't remember it. I know that eventually they will outgrow needing "mummy" in the middle of the night. As far as not remembering it, that's probably true too. Lack of sleep is pretty powerful.
Little tid-bits from the daily hum-drum of life ... snippets that would otherwise most likely be forgotten.
Wow that sounds pretty much like my nights, except Joshua wakes for nursings, Alan because he's still adjusting to the new place I think. Darn and here I was thinking it was going to get better once they were both older!
ReplyDeleteI too thought it would get easier as they got older. Some days they sleep great. Other days, not so much so. I certainly miss the hormones that let me get up umpteen times a night to nurse a baby. I didn't realize those hormones existed until they were gone ... Good thing the kids slept better last night.
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