Tired Mommy

Oh boy! We had a r.o.u.g.h night last night! For some reason, Ian tends to get his teeth in overnight. Ugg, ugg, ugg. Anyways, he kept waking up last night. Every time we would pick him up, he would lean against us and immediately fall asleep again. He is usually a very independent sleeper, so this isn't normal for him. I finally took him to bed with us at midnight. He tossed and turned for the next four hours. He seemed to be asleep the whole time, but he moved constantly! I think that I maybe slept for 15-30 minutes.

Around 3:45, he woke up all and started banging on me. Of course, I woke up Daddy immediately and told him I needed help. (Daddy is a hard sleeper and even though he was right next to us, he was sleeping through the whole thing.) By the time Daddy took Ian off of me, Ian was screaming bloody murder and frantically reaching for me. We decided to give him Tylenol and Orajel and change his diaper. He was NOT happy with any of this and every time Daddy held him, he frantically started clawing, trying to get back to me. It was pretty intense, but fortunately it only lasted about ten minutes. All of the sudden he calmed down, jumped out of my arms and went to go play with his little riding car. And I could tell he was hungry. Go figure.

Poor Daddy was so sweet and offered to lay on the couch while Ian watched Veggie Tales in his Pack N Play. But I knew Daddy was pretty worn out and would be able to help me more the next day if he got sleep. So we sent Daddy back to bed and ate an early breakfast, watched Veggie Tales, and played until about 5am. At that point, Ian decided he wanted to take a bath, which I thought was a great idea. I was hoping taking a bath would help him unwind enough to be able to fall asleep again. The bath totally worked and at 5:30am, he was back in bed. He then slept until 10am!!! I was soooooooo thankful for that!

When he got up at 10am, he was starving again! If I am not fast enough, he will eat his waffle on his own before I can cut it up and put syrup on it. Haha - he's really concentrating on that bite of waffle!

Yum!! Good stuff!

Later this afternoon, we headed over to Nana and Pop-Pop's. Ian had gone all day without a nap, so by 5pm, he was ready to conk out in the car!

So sweet!

Getting sleepy cuddles from Nana and Pop-Pop.

Tonight Ian took another bath. He was having fun stacking his foam letters on top of each other. It's one of his new favorite things to do - stack stuff on top of other stuff.

Sweet clean boy!

Haha - looks like he is giving a speech.

I don't know what this expression is about, but it cracks me up!

I just got Ian to bed, made myself some popcorn, and sat down to catch up on a few things (like blogging!). When I went to get a bowl out of the cabinet, I noticed something amiss in the cabinet. Do you see it?

Yup! I put the oatmeal back in the cabinet instead of the pantry this morning. I blame my tired Mommy brain!

I'm off to bed...hoping for a good night's sleep for all of us!