When Hayden was a baby she got this terrible cold. She was all stuffed up and boogery and just grouchy all day long. She couldn't nurse, drink her bottles, or suck on her soother because her nose was too plugged. One night I just could not get her to sleep and she cried and cried. I think she must have been around 9 or 10 months old at this point. We ended up taking her for a car ride to calm her down and when it seemed like she could breathe through her nose I gave her a bottle in the car and she eventually fell asleep. We carefully transferred her to her crib when we got home.
So now that Hayden and Deacon are BOTH sick it's just a bit more challenging. Hahah. Today is Day 3 for Deacon and Hayden is pretty much over it. Deacon's temperament is a little bit more complacent than Hayden was at the same age so he's not unbearably irritable. For Hayden, even the smallest discomfort turns her into a completely different child.
Getting them to bed has been the hardest part. Hayden was up until almost 1am on Saturday because she just couldn't seem to fall asleep with her stuffy nose. Even once she's asleep it's still not the end of it. I am now seeing a pattern with Hayden that she has horrible horrible nightmares when she's sick. Thankfully that's not very often. I'm always in and out of her room at night as she rolls around in her bed crying. On Sunday night I went in her room and she was thrashing all around and screaming. I couldn't manage to calm her down so I woke Tyler up and he went in there and got her to relax. When we asked her what was wrong she pointed at me and said, "You go away!!" Fine with me! I gladly went back to bed. Tyler decided to sleep with her in case it happened again which it did. But the second time it took a lot for us to get her to calm down. It was actually really scary. She was asleep yet her eyes were half open looking around but not focusing on anything. She was calling "Mommy mommy!!" but even though I was right there saying "Mommy's here!!" she wasn't hearing me! I thought she was definitely possessed. I know this sounds mean but we even sprinkled cold water on her face to get her to snap out of it. She eventually woke up and even though she was all sweaty she couldn't remember any of it except for having watered poured on her face. Poor thing.
Deacon is difficult to put to sleep at the best of times. Deacon's sleeping patterns (which have become A LOT better in the past month) need a blog post all of their own. Today seems to be Deacon's worst day. He's also teething so that doesn't help his situation. He just cut a top tooth yesterday! I was hoping he would be feeling better so I could take them to play group tomorrow but they're still pretty boogery and we don't need to be passing that on.
So my house is covered with baby boogers and I am covered in baby boogers and we're all sleep deprived at the moment. BUT this too shall pass, right?
Apparently neither child is napping today so we're going to go to Walmart instead and look for birthday party stuff! Wish me luck! hahah
XO Liza
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