i understand now why sleep deprivation is such an effective tool for torture. i am not saying that i am being tortured, but i understand why it would be effective.
emma was teething again last week. i am beginning to wonder if she is part shark. i think she may be cutting a second row of teeth next. we have been teething every other week since she was about 5 months old. this produces a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde kind of child. one day she is lovely, sweet, full of kisses and hugs, and then she is whining, clinging and touching everything that she knows not to touch. we are on to her game, she knows that if she touches the forbidden items she gets picked up - this is no simpleton we are dealing with.
so our pink-clad jekyll hadn't been sleeping very well. and that means that this mommy wasn't sleeping either. night after night, around 2 or 3 we would hear the sad little whimpers of a baby in pain. no fun. then the screams of a baby who wanted comfort. so, we left our comfort to give her some. and in the meantime, i started slowly going crazy. irrational thoughts kick in when you aren't rested. you don't know they are irrational at the time, but one good night's sleep makes it clear.
i know this because our darling slept last night. and to make it better, instead of waking up at 6 am this morning, she actually made it until 7:15.
this seems fitting since i issued a mandate to shawn last night that he was getting up with her this morning, since i have been up with her around 6 for the last week or so. he agreed, and then she slept until 7:15.
figures.
anywhoo, the long and short of it is that we all got sleep last night and i feel like a new person. got any buildings i could leap over?
