Our friend L has been staying with us for the last two nights for the last couple of days of her trip. It's been nice for me to have some company. I'm pretty social and it's been really hard to be in a new community and not have friends to visit with and people to talk to when you feel like it.
The downside to visitors is they don't know the house rules and it doesn't always occur to you to tell them things. I mean, it's not like you have a list of all your family quirks, although, maybe we should all start doing that. It could make visits a lot less painful for everyone involved. K, on to the story...
M slept pretty darn well on Thursday night. He had a little wake up fuss but put himself back to sleep. Last night started very much the same way. He woke up around 10 and we let him fuss himself back to sleep. He was out like a light. Around 4:30 I heard him wake up and start to cry. This was his "I'm yelling really loud to get your attention cry" which leads into his "I'm going to gag until you come get me cry" which then leads into his "I'm frustrated oh wait I can suck my thumb, nope I'm frustrated" and so on cry. Once he gets to that point he'll fall asleep pretty quickly. The whole process usually takes about 20 minutes. During this Glenn got up for a facilities break because, let's face it, we were awake anyway.
As M was starting to wind down we heard L come upstairs and into M's room. She thought Glenn was in the shower and that I was still asleep so she thought she would be helpful and get M. She had the very best of intentions. She had no idea we were trying to get him back into his normal routine and that this required letting him fuss sometimes.
5 am and I am on the couch with M trying to get him to go back to sleep. I think we dozed a bit. Once he passed out I tried to get him into his room. He woke up (you knew he was going to) so I spent another half hour in his room trying to get him to sleep. I finally gave up and took him into our room thinking I could get him to cuddle in bed but he thought this meant he should holler a little louder in case daddy had managed to fall asleep.
Back to the couch. Ok, now we're snuggled in again and getting cozy. Apparently I've taken the dog's spot on the couch as she has jumped up and is trying to get my feet out of the way so she can curl up. Now she's comfy and I am permitted to get comfy around her. This is the time that the snobby stray cat has chosen to snuggle up on my shoulder except he's pretty big so he's half on me and half on M. Which is keeping M up because he wants to pet the kitty cat. It's 6 am by now and I can hear Glenn getting up. I have realized that I'm not getting anymore sleep so I turned on the coffee pot (the last of the really good coffee) and turned on Sesame Street ( it was early enough that it was on) for M hoping for a quite hour or so.
L felt terrible but it was just one of those things that happen. I can't say I felt quite so benevolent at 5 am but after a cup of coffee I was feeling much better about the whole thing. At least M had a nice long nap today.
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