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another day, another sleepless night.


In case you were wondering, Maggie continued her assault with Operation: Only Child last night and this morning. She didn’t go to bed until 10:45 last night- TEN FORTY-FIVE!- and was up at 1:30am… then again at 2:30am… then again at 5:30am. I finally got her back to sleep around 6, and she slept for 15 minutes. Awesome. I marched in, picked her up from her crib, plopped her in the pack-and-play in the toy room and turned on Ariel & Sebastian (“ree-al” and “sas-chin”). Then I crawled back in bed… for 15 minutes, because she was in there crying and saying “Eat! Eat!” Apparently it was breakfast time.

Breakfast for all of us, then Dan left for work. Maggie and I snuggled on the couch for a bit watching the DVR, and she started falling asleep. I put her in her crib, and she had the nerve to take a TWO AND A HALF hour nap- 8am until 10:30am. After keeping me up all night. And instead of napping with her, I made myself get some work done because I was pretty sure she wouldn’t be taking her usual afternoon nap, and I had some things I absolutely needed to get done today.

I’m so so so tired. But whatever. We’ll get through this, whatever it is. I’m 75% sure it’s teeth, it looks like her upper-left canine gum area MIGHT look KINDA different than the other ones. Not that I examined all four spots several times today or anything. Ahem.

In other news, we had to perform our first Pea Extraction Surgery tonight during dinner. She shoved a pea so far up her nose and no amount of getting her to blow her nose made it come out (it usually works, and yes, that means she has in fact done this before.) So we laid her down on her changing table, Dan held her arms down, and I held her head while reaching up her nostril with tweezers. SUCCESS, after a few tries. She’s wiggly, that one.

I don’t think we’ll be serving her peas for a while.

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14 Comments


  1. Nichole

    Nov 11 at 8:02 pm

    wow I can’t even imagine what that was like!! I know getting a splinter out of a finger or a foot is a fight!!! up the nose!!



  2. Caity

    Nov 11 at 8:07 pm

    Aww, I’m glad you were at least able to get the pea out. It’s a funny story after the fact, though!



  3. Jenn W

    Nov 11 at 8:19 pm

    I’m glad we haven’t had a pea incident yet. I’m sure my son will be the one to do that. My 3 1/2 yr. old decided to take a 2 hr. “nap” last night and was up from 10:30-12:30, then she was up for the day at 7:30am. Not as bad as your night, but I don’t handle lack of sleep AT ALL. Needless to say, we broke the “no nap” rule for her seeing as how she had a million melt downs before 10am!!! Let’s hope we ALL get more sleep tonight, eh??

    Jenn Ws last blog post: Mosaic of Me :)



  4. Jen

    Nov 11 at 8:40 pm

    @Jenn W: I’m wondering if it’s something in the air?? There are quite a few people I’ve talked to lately who have kids who just do NOT want to sleep! It’s a week past the time change so that doesn’t really explain it… who knows. But I’m with you- I SUCK at handling no sleep, especially now when it should be over and done with!



  5. Jane

    Nov 11 at 9:13 pm

    oh great.. now I’m going to be scared to serve peas!! :)

    Janes last blog post: Mosaic of Me



  6. Melissa

    Nov 11 at 9:18 pm

    Oh no, what a long night/day. :( I hope tonight goes better!

    Melissas last blog post: Protected: flying coach



  7. janet

    Nov 11 at 10:12 pm

    I believe I have mentioned before that readying mommyblogs is my own twisted form of birth control…but yeah…I love sleep too much! Hope things start looking up!

    janets last blog post: eleven eleven



  8. Jen

    Nov 12 at 9:12 am

    @janet: heh try not to let all of our whining scare you too much ;) I love sleep too (and so does Dan) so that’s the only time it’s just really, really hard. Most of the time, she sleeps great… but she’s been growing a lot lately so I think that’s part of it. Lots going on in that little body of hers! She just can’t calm down. We spent extra time last night calming her down for bed, and it worked- she slept all night! So today she’s one step closer to having a sibling, LOL (though it’s going to take more than just 1 good night to convince me! hehe)



  9. Allison

    Nov 12 at 10:02 am

    I definitely think it’s something in the air. If she is teething, I hope they come through soon!

    The image of you and Dan wrestling with Maggie on the changing table getting the pea out of her nose? HILARIOUS.

    Allisons last blog post: Busted Camera



  10. Jen

    Nov 12 at 10:25 am

    @Allison: Oh it would have been quite the scene to any outsiders, I’m sure :) We were actually laughing the whole time, because it was just completely ridiculous, plus we were both (actually, all three of us) completely exhausted so what else can you do but laugh?? I’m just glad we didn’t have to go to the ER or anything. That would have just made my night. ha!

    It dawned on me last night that if it’s not teeth, it might be growing pains?? I’ve read some things a while back about toddlers and older kids having them at night, and she’s been doing a ton of growing height-wise recently (had to go buy all new pants after just a month!!!! Thank goodness for Good Will!!) So it could be that. I just wish she would tell us what’s wrong, then we’d know if she was just being a pain in the butt ;)



  11. Bobbi

    Nov 12 at 11:25 am

    Make sure you throw out the pea after you get it out!!! Just kidding :)

    Bobbis last blog post: Mosaic of Bobbi



  12. Rachie

    Nov 12 at 1:13 pm

    You know, the hubby and I were actually thinking about trying for one in a year times but now I’m thinking nope. Not while I’m still in nursing school and hubby’s starting his new teaching job. That would just be asking for it.

    Rachies last blog post: Mosaic of Me



  13. Holly

    Nov 12 at 1:47 pm

    I am willing to share my caffeine IV … for a price… heh heh.

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  14. Jen

    Nov 12 at 4:21 pm

    @Rachie: ooh that’s a tough one. It would be doable of course (people have babies in all sorts of crazy situations!) but I’ve always been one to try to keep things as low-stress as possible. Babies and kids (and school and new jobs!) are stressful enough without adding other variables to the mix. Of course, Dan started a new job working 12 hour days when Maggie was just a month old, so what do I know? LOL