Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Insomnia Gal is Back


approximately 2:00AM

Little One wakes up, insistently calling me. Since I'm always paranoid of the overnight puke at this time of year, I dashed to her side.

"What's the matter?" sniffing the air for eau d' barf.

None. Whew.

"I'm sorry, Mommy." Tearful.

"Ok. Why?" Groggy.

"I called Big Guy poop." Sob, sob, sob.

(Cute. If it wasn't 2am, it would have been downright adorable. )

"That's ok. Just don't do it again. Now go back to sleep."


approximately 2:30AM


Little One wakes again.


Screaming, "I'm staaaaarving. I'm staaaaaaarving."


"Then you should have eaten your dinner. The kitchen is closed."


"I'm staaaaarving. I'm staaaaaaarving."


"You can have waffles for breakfast."


"I want WAAAAFFFFFLLLLES."


We keep this up for approximately 15 minutes until her screams are loud enough to wake the dead. At this point, I am willing to deal.


"You may have a banana."


"I want a peanut butter sandwich, shaped like a Christmas tree."


"Banana or nothing."


So banana it was.


approximately 3:00AM


"I neeeeeeeeeed water."


"Go to sleep."


"The banana made me thirsty. I NEEEEEEED water."


I gave her a glass of water. At this point I layed in her bed, because I could see this night was going nowhere fast.


approximately 3:30AM


"I'm HUUUUNNNNGRRRY."


"You just had a banana. You are NOT hungry. Go to sleep."


"But I'm HUNGRY!"


"YOU ARE NOT HUNGRY."


approximately 4:00AM


"Get up, mom. It's time to get up."


"It is NOT time to get up. Go back to sleep."


"GEEETTTT UUUUUUUUP, Mom!"


I start feeling kicking in my kidneys by little pork chop feet.


"Time to GET UP, MOM!"


At this point, we had a Come to Jesus conversation. There was much sobbing. Perhaps on both our parts.


Eventually, she fell asleep and I had to drag her sleeping ass out of bed to go to school.


How many cups of coffee have YOU had today?



6 comments:

Rebecca said...

Oh gosh... Sleep little one... For your momma's sanity if nothing else!

A said...

I'm tired just reading this. Hoping you get a few more Zzzz's tonight

Astarte said...

Oh, dear God!!!!!

(but what a gorgeous photo you have there!)

Stimey said...

Thank God my kids don't wake up in the middle of the night. (Knock on wood.) But I get the "I'm huuuuuuuuungggggrrrrryyy" from Quinn every hour on the hour. Sometimes when there's food in front of him. Just not the right food. I hope you got more sleep the last couple nights.

Meg @ Soup Is Not A Finger Food said...

Hmmm. This Never happens in our house. Nope, not ever. Not at all.

Heh.

Eventually they outgrow it. My 12 and 10 year old boys? hard to get them to go to sleep but we could do home renovations or steam clean the carpets after they're out, and they'd never wake up.

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