Musical Beds. Wednesday - September 24, 2008

So, in all the chaos of last week's sleepless nights... we had a few nights of musical beds. What can you expect with 3 sick kids, right?

Anyway, Dan was doing all the getting up in the middle of the night because I was also really sick. Around 4:30am one morning, Rocco woke up screaming... then Gabby woke up because of Rocco's screaming. So, Dan plopped Gabby into bed with me. Then he went back and grabbed Rocco and tried to get him to go back to sleep. Rocco didn’t want to eat. He didn’t want his paci. He just didn’t want to be put in his crib… probably because of his ear pain. But, he’d sleep on Dan’s shoulder.

So, Dan took him into Gabby’s bed with him, so they could both try and get a bit more sleep. Well, two hours later, Dan woke up… and started freaking out when he noticed Rocco was no longer sleeping on his should or even right next to him. Then, Dan said he suddenly heard Rocco sucking on his pac. Dan looked over to the wall that sits up against the side of Gabby’s bed… and there was Rocco. Standing in the tiny space between the wall and the bed, sucking on his paci and watching Dan. Dan said that when Rocco saw him look at him he got the biggest smile on his face.

There are few things better than a pacifier smile. Especially after thinking your wild child has gone incognito!