I woke up at 4:10 this morning thanks to a small bladder and
I have been awake ever since. My mind
was wondering thinking about all of my “big plans” in life and I was annoyed
with myself that I could not fall back to sleep knowing that I had to be up and
at ‘em by 6:30 on my day off. Then I
faintly heard Gabby scream, not cry….faintly?
I have a baby monitor in my room so I should have heard her screeches
clearly, but apparently managed to turn it off somehow for the one time Gabby
woke up shrieking in the middle of the night.
When I entered her room I was guessing her diaper leaked and that was
why she was upset. I picked her up and
consoled her for a moment and realized her diaper was contained so that wasn’t
the reason for the shrieking. So while
looking around her room (and changing her diaper) she started whining “get get”
which is what she calls her blanket. I
saw the blanket I covered her with laying outside the crib. She is very attached to her “get get” but
didn’t get to go to sleep with it last night because it was dirty. She is adaptive and was fine with going to
sleep with another blanket because it was satin like her “get get” on the underside,
but it is a blanket from infancy so it was too small to cover her ever growing
long body. Before I went to sleep I
covered her with a longer fleece Texans blanket to keep her warm until
morning. Bad idea! Nothing gets by my
baby! Luckily she went back to sleep easily and slept until 7:30 which is late
for her.
You may think that I hate when Gabby wakes me up in the
middle of the night, but I actually have the complete opposite reaction (not
that I want to wake up), I think I am so glad that she usually sleeps through
the night. Those nights when she wakes
up reminds me of the first year and never getting more than 4 hours of
consistent sleep, which for me is a huge deal.
If you know me you know I need 9 hours of consistent sleep to feel well
rested. I am hoping for a fun day. I am
watching a friend’s baby so it’s all up to him and Gabby. It’s amazing how much control these little
ones have over my day even though they don’t realize it.
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