Ugh. Thats the only word I can type that describes the last week. Sleep - not great at all. First off let me start with the fact that this family has been dealing with one sickness after another - a week of high-temp flu; two+weeks of sinus infec. & bronchitis - I'm still struggling; and now my little Dolly threw up three times last night - nothing since 7:30pm so it's been 12 hours - hope it lasts!!!
So, on top of the sickness we deal with Sam and sleep. Daddy's been gone all week so I'm on my own. Two nights ago - Sam woke up around 2:45 yelling for me so I ran in his room. Remember he is in a loft bed - I cannot just pick him up, so he's sitting up yelling/crying and I can tell he has no idea what is going on. In the meantime he's yelling 'stupid mommy' over and over, he threw his pillow at me and was going to throw his sippy at me until I grabbed it first. So, I try to calm him and ask if he wants to rock. He tells me not to talk and starts pounding the wall, our bedroom wall. Ironic since I almost hung our wedding photos back up that same day - thinking his 'fits' might be subsiding during the night. SO glad I ran out of time:-) This went on for quite a while and finally I convinced him to come down and rock - my remaining calm I think is what totally helped - while it's not easy listening to horrible things being said about you and things being thrown at you - I did realize he he had no idea what what going on.
We rocked and it still was stressful - NOT fast enough no matter what I did. It had been some time since we'd gone through this in such a horrible way. Granted, on a daily basis we never do it right but he has not had his angry kicking fits because of this - until lately. After about 30+ minutes of this I finally calmed him down, he went potty and then he had to sit at the table and drink a little juice. By this time, I'm not going to fight. So, we sat at the table quietly until he looked like he was going to fall asleep and I convinced him to get back in bed. So he did and so did I. OH, then both kids decided it would be fun to wake up at 6:45. 'Morning mommy!!!'
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