June 23, 2003

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  How can something so cute, stay up so long, and make me so tired?  Its the amazing sleepless wonder baby.  She never naps, and she only sleeps at night when she's on my boob.  (sorry, but its the truth)  And well its gotta stop soon.  And I'm thinking the only way its gonna stop is with some major trainning, and well, I guess thats my job huh?  And is she not sleeping 'cause she's hurting, or is it just cause she has a really, bad habit going.  Well I know she's hurting some of the time.  *sigh*  And its 4:30 in the morning, and I've been up all night, and I'm sure none of this is logical.  She's sleeping in my arms sitting straight up.  She's DREAMING.  I'm watching smiles flicker across her face.  But the second I lay her down she wakes up screaming cold blooded murder.  I know, I've tried many, many, many times tonight. 

  
  

  I really really, really don't want to do CIO.  But I'm thinking its about all thats gonna work.  But, its starting to effect our marriage, and my other kids, and this can't continue much longer if I wish to maintain even a partial bit of my sanity.

  
  

  Okay on to bigger and better things.  The thing we ended up doing on Saturday?  We forgot that it was the Awana picnic, so we went there, and built a HUGE sand castle.  The top picture with Rainee is to give you a good idea as to how tall it was.  We called it Masada.  ROFL  It was a big mountain, with a little bit of buildings on top.  It was a Tim Allen kinda adventure,  DH got just a wee bit over ambitious, and our kiddos abandoned the castle after the first 10 minutes 'cause I think they thought mommy and daddy were nuts.  But hey we worked on it for almost 2 hours.  *grin* And it turned out quite impressive.

  
  

  

  
  

  Update its 5 am.  And Rainee *gasp* is in her crib.  DH and I grabbed a couple minutes.  (use your imagination.  )  And now I'm hacking up half a lung,  I hacked up the other half about a half hour ago. 

  
  

  I should go to bed, but of course I'm wide awake.  I'm so glad my sister is coming today, or I'd go nutso about 2 this afternoon.  Mind you this means I'll be sleeping while my other kids are awake, but I don't see that I have much of a choice

  
  

  Its amazing, 2 years ago I blogged about being tired,  I truely had no idea what tired was back then......

  
  

  We bought the newest Harry Potter book.  And it was a good thing to do while I laid sick in bed yesterday.  I skipped church 'cause of being so miserable, and slept/read all day.  It was a lazy thing to do, that I can't remember the last time I did, but oy I was so miserable.  Still am. 

  
  

  And finally the last picture is uploaded.  Here is our finished castle.  And yes Kaylin was dwarfed beside it, its not an optical illusion.  The stinking moat was up to my knees,  I know 'cause I was standing in putting up finishing touches.  DH, dug down so deep to build it, that he hit the water table.  LOL

  
  

  I haven't had that much just relaxed fun and craziness in a long time.  My sister showed up just as DH and I were getting tired, and had some extra "tools" and helped us do the finishing touches.  Haven't worked that hard having fun in  a long time either.  All in all Saturday was a lovely day, and boy did we wear those kiddos out!

  
  

  

  
  

  Okay then, all my pictures are uploaded, and its time for this mommy to grab an hour or two of sleep before the kids wake up.  And this time when Rainee wakes up...she's all daddys!  I've done my share of duty for the night.  *grin*

  
  

  Have a good day all.

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