Slow night

Well, last night was not the best night....but I've had worse! Karyl got up kind of early yesterday and with all the fun she never took a nap. When Karyl gets over tired, it messes with her sleeping and she ends up waking up in the middle of the night screaming because she's just too tired to deal with going back to sleep. So after I had been asleep for maybe 45 minutes, she started in....then after getting her calmed down and back in bed after threats if she woke up Freddie I got back in to bed. Then listened to her whine for about 10 minutes before she finally went back to sleep. Then right as I had reached the edge of sleep Freddie started whining and snorting. He has his first "cold" and since his nose is kinda stuffy he can't suck his thumb, which frustrates him to no end!!

So he whined for a while and went back to sleep...then as I was getting closer to going back to sleep poor Greg moved around and jolted me awake, he kinda got the wrath of the tired mom at that point. Unfortunately he just happened to be the one to take the blow for everyone else keeping me awake. Luckily earlier that evening when we got home his Father's Day present had arrived, so I'm hoping that the gift softened him and he wasn't cursing me too much this morning.

Then as I got up to start working this morning Freddie decided to snort himself awake. And he screamed and screamed....no binky worked, he couldn't suck his thumb...and I attempted to threaten him if he woke up his sister but then realized that would do no good so I decided to try feeding him. That actually worked, sitting up he started to breath better and was able to eat. Then I put him in his swing and he whined for a little while but started reaching up and playing with the toys and at some point lost consciousness and is asleep, so I logged on and furiously started working as fast as possible to get as much done as possible while he is asleep. Now I'm out of work and just spent the past 20 minutes trying to find where they might sell refill filters for the humidifier we have. I had just about lost hope when Walgreen's came through, and there is one right down the street!! I ruined the last one by leaving it in the machine with water...I had no idea it would get all gross...

So, I'm tired....very, very tired...but that is all masked by the joy I realized this morning when Freddie was able to drink from his bottle, that's my fear with young kids and bottles, they get such a bad cold that they can't even eat. Luckily we're not at that point. If this is a cold...3 days coming, 3 days here and 3 days going...it's been coming for about 3 days, so now we have the whole weekend to let it hang around which is great because Greg has Monday off, then it should head back to the depths of viral hell sometime next week. He is definitely not quite as good as Karyl with sick, but better than most kids so he gets points for that!!

Now I am going to just putz around until more work shows up and the kids wake up...I don't dare leave my office for fear that I'll wake up Freddie, and that would be a tragedy!!