Exhaustion

That one word pretty much sums up my life lately. First it was Isla and all her sleep issues. One night last week she was waking up every 15 minutes for over an hour. I don't even know how that is possible. But now she seems to have leveled off and even gotten better. She is only waking once a night which is stellar for her. Then there's Connor...

On Saturday night, Connor didn't go to sleep until after 4am. The kid wanted to party and there was nothing we could do about it. Then, when sleep finally overtook him, he woke up hysterical to the sound of the neighbor's dogs barking. Connor goes crazy when he hears dogs bark. This time though, it was really bad. I think due to lack of sleep. We couldn't calm him down. Finally Ian took both the kids for a drive and sleep overcame them. Connor slept until after noon that day. However, he has been waking every morning in the five o'clock hour from the barking dogs. And he won't go back to sleep. And, what's keeping him from taking a nap as well? You guessed it...those dang barking dogs. And he always ends up waking Isla in the process of him not sleeping. Then I have two sleepy, high strung, on edge children to deal with. Awesome.

I have never lived anywhere where I have heard so many dogs bark. I have considered standing at my neighbor's front door and ringing the doorbell incessantly from 5:30am on just to get back at them. Just remember, I am not in my right mind. I haven't been getting like any sleep. Ian had to come home from work early one day because I had such a huge headache that it made me nauseous. I know it was from lack of sleep, but I don't know what to do about it.

Tonight, after the dogs keeping Connor awake and Connor subsequently waking Isla, I went into a tirade and moved a stereo into Connor's room and have music blasting. I am hoping this helps. I am praying this helps.

And I just thought I would prove that somehow through all this, we still manage to smile every once in a while...well at least the kids do. And since I can't resist their adorableness, I in turn smile too. I mean seriously, who can resist a two year old singing twinkle, twinkle little star?!