Sleepy Head

I think of this post often and I can still visualize her sorta like this.  She is still my excellent sleeper.  (And here's to hoping this next baby picked up the same genes!!)  She often sleeps til between 8&9am.  And wakes up all wrinkly and puffy and sweetly smiling, just like in those bath pics.

I guess this past week caught up with her too.  Yesterday, she and I ran an errand and when we got there, I looked back and she'd fallen asleep.  It was about 3:30pm.  So I drove her around for a while b/c the Andrews were coming over around dinner time & thought the sleep would be good for her before friend time.  She woke up after we got home but was grumpy.  That grumpy that's just really annoyed to be awake.  The boys went up to play and she went into her room and shut the door and climbed under a blanket.  She slept through the evening and 4 boys being here.  And woke up this morning around 6:30am.  Probably because her brother had been up since 5:30am.
Fifteen hours of sleep... that's my girl!

God, help me!

Peter's sleep has always been hard on all of us.  He is our early riser (in the 5 o clock hour).  NO ONE else in our house is a morning person, at all.  We've tried everything we can think of.  Nothing works.  Last week we were having friends over so we skipped naps.  (Be assured, we've tried this before.)  The next morning, he slept til 6:30.  Then got in bed with us (noisy breathing and all) and stayed til 7am.  So we decided.  We'd try to give up naps.  (Peter NEEDS his naps.  But the rest of the house also wants to sleep to a reasonable hour!  Generally, I know a lot of kids have given up theirs by now and I count myself blessed that he hasn't.)  So we've been going at it for 5 days.  Then, we napped yesterday.  Everyone was at their whits end and exhausted.  Last night, it was wake up off and on from 3:40 on.  I ended up sleeping with him til 5:45am, when he was raring to go!  (I do NOT care for this... I need my time next to my husband to rejuvenate )  So today (day 7), with the addition of a field trip, and no naps, I am not a happy camper.  I feel like this is going to kill me.  I feel like we are back in the throws of a newborn for the first time with feelings of "what on earth am I going to do with this child?!"  I have no idea where this will land.  But its making me more Cr@Zy than normal in the meantime.  I can't handle the lack of break (yes, we've done short times in rooms).  God, help us all.  We are desperate and crazy... And we like our sleep!!!  And this mom likes nap time!!!

Middle of the night

Hanging out in the boy's sleep study room*.  About 1:30am, I gave up attempts at sleeping. I get too restless and my legs are aching. Trying to sleep means thinking about that so a distraction sounds better.  I wish this could be our last ever "tail" (and overnight together in a medical facility) but I can't be sure of that. But I've come up with best case scenario (as if I could be God).... One more EEG in 2 years after being seizure free all that time to find out his EEG is PERFECT. Wouldn't that be GREAT! Lord, hear our prayer and thanks for all the ways You already have! I guess it is sorta nice to have a few hours of quiet peace. 
*This study may be a little of a luxury (if that's possible) to follow up on his apnea after T&A because of his neuro history. And we are getting it in at the end of insurance year... Woohoo. We know how to have a good time.