Today is such a strange day. You know how that is? Where everything is just different from every other day? Noah is home sick today, except I’m not sure if he’s really that sick but he had a fever last night so I’m following the “when to keep your kids at home” guidelines. He also has a headache.
Brian is home from work today, he’s working remotely to help me with Eli so I can get some much needed work done.
And Eli is sleeping right now which is really good because last night he did not sleep well. He has four teeth trying to rupture out of his gums, so maybe that’s the problem? Maybe he has a sore throat? Maybe he has a gas bubble in his belly that won’t subside? Maybe he thinks sleeping is dumb? Whatever it is, I wish he would feel better.
Eli’s new thing is eating my chin, whenever he can. And if he can’t, he’ll eat my nose and if he can’t do either, he’ll scratch me with this Freddy Krueger nails.
He has also started pulling Brian’s arm hair. Which is fun for me to listen to, but I know it’s not fun for Brian.
Last night we had many night time interruptions. Typically, Anna and Noah sleep soundly throughout the entire night but not last night. At one point, Eli was awake, I nursed him back to sleep (after Brian tried to get him to settle), I laid him in his crib, laid down on my crisp, cool sheets, probably moaned and stretched out my legs and then I felt a tapping on my shoulder.
“Mom. I had a dream about two beetles.”
At least, I’m assuming Noah meant beetles, as in the insects, and not Beatles as in McCartney and Lennon but with him, you just never know. I walked him back to bed and heard Eli crying again. I sat with Eli in his room and heard Brian up talking to a child in the bathroom. It went on for quite awhile. When I finally got Eli back to sleep, I, once again, snuggled back into bed and Brian said “Anna had a bloody nose.”
Anna continued to wake up through the night, Eli woke up throughout the night and you guessed it, so did Noah.
The point of this story? The bags below my eyes are resting comfortably on my chin. It’s okay, though. It’s just one night in my life that I’ll remember as that crazy night where nobody slept.
But if it happens again tonight? I’m going to pack up and check into the local motel. Except not really because these three babies that need their Mommy, even if it’s in the middle of the night, make me so very happy.
And coffee solves everything.
Have a great weekend, friends!
“not Beatles as in McCartney and Lennon”…LOL!
Get some rest, momma. Easier said than done, I know.
i have had many nights like that…the not-so-great, but, wonderful things about motherhood. sigh! have a great weekend.
Pretty sure Noah meant the Beatles. Ask him!
Hang in there.. you have an AMAZING attitude. You can do this!
My night was just like yours! J not sleeping unless I nursed her, A talking to himself around midnight – for 2 hours, N wanting to snuggle. And it all went on ALL NIGHT. Even with all that, motherhood is good. And I love it. I hope you get some sleep today.
Isn’t it sweet how they need their mommy?!
Oh he definitely meant the Beatles. Ringo has an odd way of stalking dreams. Just me? Oh…
Hope your night tonight is better. <3
My baby slept soundly (sorry) but I can still commiserate because one of the dogs from a house that backs up to the greenbelt behind ours, barked almost non-stop from 12am to 7am. I was about ready to jump in the car, track down the house, and drop a Filet Mignon, laced with rat poison, over the fence. (It’s not the first time this has happened, obvy but the worst.) Instead, I settled for putting a pillow over my head and waking up every hour as the volume increased in waves. Ugh. Coffee? YES!
I love love love the phrase, the bags under my eyes are resting comfortably on my chin. I *may* have to use that some time in the future…like 15 minutes from now when my boss asks why that report isn’t done. Don’t worry I’ll give you full credit.
you have a good weekend, too! one filled with a good night’s sleep!
i just want to tell you that I adore your blog. i read several everyday, each for a different reason…but I love your blog because it’s so real. and you are so insightful. and so grateful. but also not afraid to talk about the good and the bad…when you are tired, when you are happy, when you are frustrated. and your writing is just lovely. but most of all, your love for your beautiful family is almost contageous, and i almost always leave your blog feeling my heart swell for my own little family. thanks so much for sharing with all of us, and for allowing us to peek into your little corner of the world.
Maybe there was a full moon or something because Munchie usually sleeps GREAT but was up for 45 minutes in the middle of the night for no reason that she could put words to.
Hope you all get a good sleep tonight!
I had the exact same night last night…almost. I only have two kids and my hubby slept through it all.
Big bags under my eyes today too. And today? They’ve both got me covered in snot. But it’s nap time now and my coffee has just finished brewing…
Oh sheesh. Hopefully you’ll get some sleep tonight! This is my biggest fear of having more than one child. As soon as you get one to sleep the others are awake and you don’t get any sleep. *sighs*
Hope you have a great weekend!
Oh those nights. So had. But thank heavens for coffee. What would we do without it?
I feel your pain… at about 2 I had a wee one say “mommy… I wanna way wif you” then about 10 minutes later the bigger one came in- AND WOULDNT LEAVE. so it was 4 in the queen sized bed last night… ugh… does not make for good sleep, if any.
lets keep our fingers crossed tonight is better!
Beatles! LOL I love this post. Because it describes one of those bizarre nights that you MIGHT NOT remember, had you not written it down and years from now it’ll have you shaking your head and laughing.
What a great perspective you have – “coffee solves everything”. LOL again. And how great that Brian was able to work from home today and help out. Now. You go take a short nap.
Funny, Kobi love chompin’ on my chin. it can hurt. hope you get rest mama.
if it makes you feel any better I have a 10 year old greyhound who gets us up 3 x every night and I am not sure why so we haven’t had a good night sleep in ages thank goodness my almost 5 yo sleeps through the dog barking
I had a night similar to that not too long ago. And I say “I” and not “we” because it was a night when my husband was out of town. Yep, total suckage.
Hope tonight is already better!!
Thank goodness for coffee.
And was it something in the air? Cuz, JJ had a night like that the other night too. And at 4am, when I took him back to bed for the 3rd time (the 1st being a sleepwalk down two sets of stairs…scary), he told me that “I am not tired during the night, not ever. I am always awake and playing and you don’t know it.” I don’t believe him, but that night I did.
Hopefully you had a relaxing weekend! And when you’re up in the middle of the night, you can bet that I’m probably up too. Neither of my children seem to let me sleep…
Coffee does solve everything, eh? I truly hope your sleeping gets better, stat. Sleep is paramount and much missed in this household. Since my 2nd was born I don’t get half as much sleep as I used to.
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It’s so sad when your babies are sick – you feel so helpless!
I agree that he probably dreamed of THE Beatles.
I’ve dreamed about them and so has my three year old. She says she was playing guitar with “googe” the other day LOL