January 29, 2009

Tired Parenting Moments...

D and I take turns getting up with the Moo in the night (yes...she still wakes up at least once a night). Sometimes it's just a quick trip before she goes back to sleep and sometimes it's a long drawn out affair lasting until dawn. Lately there have been a lot of long drawn out affairs.

Last night was D's turn.

As I lay in bed trying to ignore the Moo's plaintive cries, I noticed that the light in her room had been turned on. This is never a good sign as it indicates that the all important binkie has gone missing.

After a few moments it became clear that the binkie was not to be found and so I got up to help D out.

Sure enough...as I entered the bedroom I saw D sprawled on the floor--eyes at half mast--hands fumbling around under the crib looking for the lost binkie and the Moo in full blown howl.

That's when we had this conversation.

C: Looking for the binkie?
D: Mmmmmm...?
C: Looking for the binkie?
D: Mmmm hmmmm.
C: It's in her mouth.
D: MMMMMMM?!!!
C: Go to bed, D.
D: Mmmmmmmmm.
C: **giggle** (quietly, of course)

Yeah...it's been a long week.

3 comments:

Undaunted said...

Glad to hear that he made it to the bed before passing out. :) Marc and I have had many nights like that. I feel you sleeplessness. Love ya

Keli said...

I remember those days with Cleeo D. It was so bad we finally just bought several and kept them in a drawer so we could just grab a new one and pop it into his mouth. Then in the morning we'd hunt out those he lost in the night.

Heavenly said...

Yeah...the sad thing is that we have at least 5 binkies somewhere in the house at this moment.

Where they all are? I have no idea. But, some days we have all of them in the binkie safe...and other days we spend massive amounts of time looking for just one.

**sigh**