A crazy night and why I need to worry

Our trip to NYC is only a week and half away and my biggest concerns are Tiara will get sick before or while I am gone and Lou won’t wake up in the middle of the night when she needs something.  As every family knows, Mothers are Fathers are wired completely differently.

Moms hear everything in the middle of the night and most Dads hear nothing, that is why we spend so many nights without sleep.  As I have mentioned before Tiara has unusual sleep patterns to which I have adapted.  Lou has adapted because I yell, scream and push him if necessary to wake him when I need help in the middle of the night.   Without my prodding I don’t think he would never wake up.

This is what happened Monday night/Tuesday morning.  Around 1:30 am, I woke up to Tiara itching and itching her legs.  It was driving me crazy and even though her eyes were closed I knew she much be uncomfortable.  I got up and put some Aquafor on her inner thighs and she stopped.  Back to bed I went and within 30 minutes I noticed she was itching her vaginal area.  UGH!  I got up again, changed her diaper and put on her prescription ointment.  That seemed to help.  During neither of these events did Lou even flinch or move a muscle, even though I turned on the light and was grunting and groaning while trying to turn her side to side for the diaper change.

I finally fell back asleep only to be awakened by her saying “Dad, Dad, Dad.”  He didn’t hear her, so I went over to him and said “Hey, Lou, wake up.  TT wants to sleep with you, hurry and switch spots before she gets really irritated and won’t go back to bed.”  Still no movement.  I shake him and start to yell and he finally moves.  Now I am in the twin bed and am staring over at Tiara to see if she will go back to sleep.  She appears to be happy and turns on her side but not 20 minutes later she starts saying “breathing, breathing.”

I get up again and walk over to her.  “Do you need your breathing treatment,TT?”  “Yes, I do.”

“OK, don’t move or get out of the bed and I will go get it.”  Off to the living room I go to collect the nebulizer and the vials.  I go back set it up and put it on.  I look over at Lou and he is dead asleep.  Really, is this a joke?  I get back in bed but before I put my head down I hear her say, “Hannah, Hannah.”  Big breath, deep sigh and back up I get and go to the TV.  I turn on the DVD and the TV and wait for Netflix to load.  It feels like it is taking a lifetime, but finally I get Hannah Montana on.  By this time it is 4:30 am and I am exhausted and grumpy.  As I lay down, my bedroom door opens, and in walks Trinity.  “Mom, I heard a loud noise and now I’m scared, can I sleep with you.”

At this point I felt like screaming, NO, GET OUT, EVERYONE GET THE HECK OUT, but I didn’t.  Sure hon, lay down.  As we both try to squish in the bed, I realize I will never be able to sleep with the show on and Trinity in my bed so I look at Tiara and see she is asleep.  Her eyes are closed but I contemplated whether or not to turn off the show.  There is a big chance that the second I turn it off she will wake up but because I am an idiot and was too tired to think straight, I turned it off.  Yep, you know what happened next.

Her eyes flew open and she started saying “Hannah, Hannah.”  I looked at Trinity who was staring at me with huge open eyes and I said, “Go to your room and I will fix this and then come sleep with you.”  She went back to her room and I waited for Netflix to load again while I tried to remain calm.  Once I was done, I looked at Lou who was still sleeping and said, “Hey, I am going to sleep with Trinity, you are in charge of Tiara.”  At this point it was 4:45am.T

Trinity and I finally fell asleep and I woke up with a startle when I looked over and saw it was 7:30am.  I screamed and jumped up, since Trinity was supposed to leave for school at that exact moment.  I naturally wake up at 6:30 every morning but I always set my alarm for 7am in case I have a bad night and over sleep.  I ran in my room and woke up Lou.  “Did my alarm do off?”  “Yeah, I turned it off.”

What the Fu**?  You turned off my alarm and didn’t even bother to let me know?”  I rushed out to the kitchen to make the coffee and see chocolate and granola bars all over the floor.  I then see open bottles of sparkle water and crackers everywhere.  “What happened in here?”  I run into the bedroom and ask Lou what happened and he said, “Oh, I was sleeping and Tiara walked in and was covered in Chocolate.  I guess she got up and got into the cabinet while I was sleeping.”

I was flabbergasted, mad and super irritated.  WOW!    I then said, “I don’t even know what to say Lou, except she better be alive when I get home from New York!”

xoxo tiffani

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