What A Week!

As you know, my baby has been fighting sleep all week. It's getting progressively better though - thank goodness! Tuesday night she slept from 7-12, then it took me an hour to get her back to bed and she slept from 1-5. I dropped her off at daycare as usual, but at 9:30 the daycare lady called. Two un-related things happened simultaneously. Their water got shut off due to a broken water pipe down the street, and her husband's grand-mother was having a stroke. She asked if I could come get Lola.

I tried calling Dayna and my mom. They both work from home. I would've tried my mother-in-law too but she's still in France right now. No answer. I picked her up and brought her to work. It WAS fun to show her off, there were a lot of people in the office yesterday, but now I had to figure something out. I tried Dayna again. She answered, but I had clearly woken her up. I felt awful. I explained the situation and she said no problem. I love my wife!

Dayna lives in the south end of town, 15 minutes away from the highway. I don't know how people can live in the suburbs. It took me about 25 minutes to get there. I dropped the baby off, thanked Dayna profusely and turned around to come back to work.

Going to get her took a bit longer because of traffic, but it stil wasn't too bad, because I'm done work just before crazy rush hour, and I stayed off the highway. I stayed at Dayna's for a bit to chit chat and catch up and then we turned around to come back home.

The baby had a good night, she was less crabby. I think her teeth aren't bugging her as much which is good! I gave her dinner, she had a bath, and she played a bit before going up to bed. I decided to mix things up a bit last night and gave her a new doll in the crib. It's a pillow pet, and she loves that things. She'll randomly throw herself on it and cuddle it. And lately she's been digging her glow worm, so he came upstairs too. Instead of putting her lullaby CD on, I put the radio on. I have it on CBC Radio 2 and at night it's mostly instrumental music.

I put her in her crib and stayed in the room for a bit, then went to the washroom. She cried. I came back, picked her up for a snuggle, and then placed her back in the crib. I went to my bedroom to put on my pjs, and heard her whimper. But then nothing. I checked out the video monitor and she was playing with the glow worm... quietly ... and happily. A few minutes later she threw herself on the pillow pet and that was it. SLEEP! Without a fight!!! I was elated.

I went to bed shortly after, around 8:30, and only woke up at 4 when she was crying. She slept through the night! Yay!! We're (hopefully) back on track! I gave her a bottle, changed her bum, and put her back to bed ... hoping she'd stay quiet for a bit. She did! She slept until 6:30!

Thank god we got that sleep because this morning has been a gong show. The daycare lady called at 6am to let me know that the gramma took a turn for the worse, and that she wouldn't be able to take Lola. Greaaaaaatttt .... Don't get me wrong, I'm very sorry for her family, I can only imagine what they're going through. It's so sad. But at 6am all I could think about was what now??

I waited until 7 and called the wonderful Dayna again. And woke her up, again. I explained the situation, and once again she said: no problem. She's been my saviour these past 2 days. The only issue was that her daughter has an appointment this afternoon. 

Lola is at Dayna's now. It took me 2 hours to drive from my house to her house and back downtown again. I cannot believe that people do that drive on a daily basis. When I got to work I called my daycare agency to see if I can put Lola with the alternate sitter this afternoon, and I called my mom to see if my parents could take her this afternoon. My dad is home around 3, mom is faking a dentist appointment.

I'm still hoping I can bring her to the other lady instead of my parents, only because the other lady lives close to my office, and my parents live in the far east of the city, so that means LOTS of driving for me this afternoon.

So there you have it! UGH what a week. On a brighter note, Mike went to see the PMQ we're probably going to be living in. We were going to Skype so i could see the place via his iphone, but his skype did not work. So he took a bunch of pics instead. I'll do another post with the pics. I believe he was accepting the PMQ offer today. And I realized that I'm only working in this office for 1 more month. GULP. Insane.