Last Night

Are you kidding me? Last night, actually last evening, was the evening from HECK!! We thought Burke would go down great considering his sleep deprivation while staying in the hospital. We thought Emma would go to sleep too with all the craziness that she has been through with playing over at Grandma's and with Will and Weston the past couple of days. But oh no, we thought TOTALLY WRONG!! We tried putting Burke down about 8 or so and he just cried hysterically. This time he didn't end up going into coughing attacks because of crying so we just let him cry it out, trying to get him to learn that it was bed time and that he is supposed to go to sleep without the help of mom or dad rocking him to sleep like he used to do before these past two surgeries. The crying went on and on, and we knew he was okay because it wasn't like he was gasping for air, he was just crying to have us come yet him out. By that time last night, I was done. I was spent and I just wanted him to stop crying and Emma to actually stay in her room and TRY to fall asleep. But no, the second I walked down stairs from putting her down about 9:30ish she came out of her room (which is a HUGE NO NO at our house) and called for me at the top of the stairs, "mommy, I'm not tired."

After multiple attempts at putting her back in her bed I shut the door to her room which is the ultimate punishment for her. So, I have this crying sleep deprived, now spoiled little boy and this screaming at the top of her lungs little girl all wide awake late last night. Not a good thing. What was a good thing though was Tyler who was in a great mood who dealt with Emma and convinced her to go to sleep and then picked up Burke and brought him downstairs for a little while longer to play. Usually we are both tired by then so the whole family is bent out of shape, but Tyler was amazing last night and saved the night. He did end up getting fed up with Burke's winning for me to hold him, resulting in me taking him and putting him back to sleep where he FINALLY decided that he was tired. This is how we found him last night when he would NOT fall asleep. It was pretty funny and we had a good laugh. That is his feeding pump that is another one of his little buddies these days. He had never tipped it over until last night. Hopefully this won't be a habit for him and we can get him back on his schedule that he was on way back in November. Sigh.(Click on picture to see the close up of Burke expression on his face- classic Burke face.)