sick baby

My poor baby is sick again. We were visiting with lots of people and kids this weekend, and my mom took her to the nursery at church, so I guess it's not too surprising. She had a hard time falling asleep Monday night, and was cranky, with odd naps, yesterday, but it wasn't until evening that she suddenly started feeling really obviously bad, and then she felt horrible all of a sudden. It's so weird with kids because it comes out of the blue. I guess with an adult, you get warning. A throat tickle, some sneezing, congested feeling.. by the time M is officially sick, I've been aware of the possibility on the horizon for a couple of days at least. It gives you time to prepare.

So, it was midnight before I finally got her to stay asleep, and twenty minutes later, just as I was falling asleep, she woke up. M got up with her (bless his heart) and then I was up with her twenty minutes after he put her down and all told, it was two before I really was able to do any serious sleeping. She slept through til morning, which surprised the heck out of both of us, but even then, she cried out quite a bit and tossed and turned and sniffled. M, who is such a sweet daddy, ran in before I put her down last night to reattach the sensor pad under the mattress, and prop one side up so she could breathe a little easier. A few weeks ago, we finally removed the sensor that monitors movement in her crib, seeing as how she is well over a year old and chances are much reduced that she will stop breathing at night. He was worried about her since she was coughing. :) I love him. He asked me if I "would mind" that he did that. hehehe. And you guys thought I was the only one who ever worried in this household.

Anyway, she is napping now and I have just spent a good part of another naptime (yesterday too) in the laundry room, trying to get rid of my pile of "projects" that have been stacking up out there. Handwashing, yard sale item cleanup, etc. I think one more nap and I'll be done, woohoo! I love my laundry room, I really do. I almost don't even mind how much time I spend out there. ;) Almost. I think I will go sew some elastic into some stuff now, though, if she will stay asleep a little bit longer. I have been majorly stressed out lately about all the THINGS that I don't have time to do, so I am making more of an effort (again) to actually do some of these things because apparently, gnomes will NOT come in the middle of the night to do these things so that leaves me to do them. I guess that's okay because I think it would be majorly creepy if there really were gnomes running around my house all night long. Well. It would be creepy unless they also do dishes because in that case, I'm all for it.