Rough night last night

When I picked up DJ from Eleanor's yesterday, she said that he had taken a 3 hour nap in the morning and another hour and a half nap in the afternoon. He's been so tired the last week no matter how much sleep he's gotten, and his napping on Friday really punctuated that fact. Then Eleanor said that he'd been in a fabulous mood since those naps, and that we'd probably have a "live wire" on our hands that night. She couldn't have been more right.

He went to bed at his normal time (7:30pm), and all seemed fine. I went to bed at 11pm and an hour and a half later, I was awakened by DJ crying. I figured it was another case of "missing binky", so I dragged myself out of bed and snagged my glasses. When I got to his room, he was standing up in the crib, holding onto the rails, and wailing. I found his pacifier, put it in his mouth, and he seemed to settle down. I left the room, crawled back into bed, and tried to settle myself back to sleep.

Naturally, DJ started crying again. So back to his room I went. Now he was really upset. I picked him up, cuddled him, and we sat in the glider chair to settle down again. This was not to be enough after half an hour. Now I was fully awake, too, so I put him down in his crib, went to get changed, and then packed DJ into the car seat. Off we went for a half hour to 45 minute drive and naturally, he was still bright eyed and bushy tailed when we got back. Oy.

I brought him back into the house, set him down in his crib, and I lay down on the floor next to his crib using the boppy as a pillow. I stopped hearing him move around finally through periods of dosing off. Apparently Steve noticed I wasn't in bed and came in to look for me right when I got up off the floor. That was 3:30am and I was finally able to go to bed. Of course it took me another half an hour to fall asleep.

6:15am, DJ woke up for his day. I went into his room to make sure he didn't start crying and wake up Nancy and Dave. He's happy to see me and he's happy to just have me in the room so he played in his crib quietly. I fell back to sleep on the floor.... until Steve came in to see DJ and find out where I was. He had to wake me up... Yep, I was tired with only about 3 hours of sleep.

DJ was happy for the most part today. He even took another 2 hour nap both in the morning and afternoon. I took naps with him, but they weren't solid sleep by any stretch of the imagination. The phone rang, the doggies were frisky, etc. So maybe I should go to bed if last night is any indication... ;-)