No Sleep From 1:00 On

Caleb is a scaredy cat like I always was. So when the thunderstorm started last night, I knew it was a matter of time before he woke up. The problem is that he is normally so scared there is no way he is going back to sleep on his own. He will go back to sleep if he gets to sleep with us though, so the few times this has happened, that's what he gets to do. So at 1:00 last night, he came to bed with me. And from 1:00 on, mommy didn't get hardly anymore sleep. I tried to keep him on my side of the bed so that he wouldn't wake Chris up (since Chris was up with him last night since he had a bad dream). Caleb laid right beside me giving me about 6 inches (literally!) of the bed to sleep on and kept kicking me all night. At one point, I scooted down below him in the bed to see if I could sleep that way. No such luck. I have a busy day and evening planned, so no napping for me either. Maybe we'll all sleep really good tonight!

Update: We all got a full night's sleep last night. When Chris and I woke up this morning, Chris said that it felt like much later in the morning...because we hadn't had to deal with Caleb during the night or early in the morning. So nice!

The Funny Thing About It Is...

If you read my previous post, I talked about not sleeping much last night.

The funny thing about it is...I'm not tired. Not once today have I felt tired. It seems like on days like today when I didn't get much sleep the night before because of you know who, it doesn't seem to phase me much.

For the whole first six months of Caleb's life, I was stinkin' tired. But the whole time I was stinkin' tired, I also was able to function much better than I thought I was going to. If you know me any little bit, you know I LOVE sleep. I simply adore sleep. I think about the moment when I'm going to be able to crawl under my covers at night all day long. I'm just weird that way. So, Chris and I really thought I was be a basket case when I had to be up with Caleb during the night all the time. But the strange things was, I wasn't. I could actually function pretty decent during all that...which at other times in my life, I couldn't. My reasoning for this was that God knew my weakness of needing TONS of sleep, and he gave me a TON of adrenaline or something to keep me going. There were so many times during that time that I had to will myself to sleep. It's crazy, but I really think God had a big, huge hand in helping me cope. I don't seem to cope real well on my own when I'm tired.

So, I guess today is one of those days that God is helping me cope. It also doesn't hurt that I got to lay around the house all day on MLK day and even got to take a nap with Caleb that day.

So, yay for not feeling too tired!

No Sleep for the Carrolls

I don't know what the deal was last night, but Caleb just wanted to cry all night. He's had a runny nose, so we wondered if that had something to do with it. Chris wondered if he had a headache (how are you supposed to know if a baby has a headache?). I wondered if he was cold. Or just rotten.

We never figured out what the deal was. But none of us got much sleep last night.

Here's hoping that tonight goes much better!

A Much Better Night's Sleep

Two nights ago, none of the Carroll family got much sleep. Caleb kept waking up screaming about every 10 minutes or so after we finally got him back to sleep each time. It was not a fun time at all. Last night when he went to bed, he felt clammy, so I took his temperature (it was about 99) and gave him some tylenol. He woke up at 4:30 and I rocked him and put him back to bed. He slept until 7 this morning which gave me time to get up and get totally ready for work before he woke up. That was very nice! I don't know if he is teething or what, but I'm ready for him to sleep all night again.