I'm going to chalk this week up as a wash.. a really rough one. Nothing really has improved this week with Miss Gracie's sleep, she's spitting up more than normal, and I feel teething is right around the next corner.

Yesterday by far had to be the worst day. She woke up at the crack of dawn literally. I actually took her outside and showed her the sun peaking over the horizon. She seems to love checking out the trees and the sunshine..needless to say it was far to early for mommy's taste but you know I don't make those decisions anymore. I had stayed up far too late Thursday night and felt guilty that I was reallyyyyyy looking forward to her first nap so I could maybe get a little rest.
Miss Gracies been napping pretty well lately, in fact I thought we were getting much better with the sleeping patterns she has but yesterday she threw one big Monkey wrench into it all.

She started out a tad tired from waking up only 6 hours after going down the night before but I thought hey she'll nap early well she did show signs of being tired about an hour and a half later. I decided I'd try to take her to bed with me..I'd told John to prepare our "area" of the bed when he went to bed Thursday morning so I knew we'd have plenty of room and that the dividing pillow between us would also be in place. At this point I am happy cause my eyes are burning and i just feel blah, well she wouldn't go down in fact after trying to take her up she decided she'd skip that nap altogether. She was up till noon and showing signs of being tired the whole time..she pretty much was laying in her PNP playing but not sleeping. I'd see her eyes begin to close and then they'd fly open and she's start kicking her legs all over her PNP to fight her sleep. Finally at 12 I decided to try and take her back up to my bed. She went down and I tried to nap but she was restless, moving her head from side to side, thumby in and out of her mouth. She didn't rest well. When we got up she was up for several hours again before she melted down and I was forced to do a nap in the swing with about 10 minutes of fussing prior to her falling asleep. That wasn't so great either so we proceeded to try for an earlier bedtime with more free time before bath time.

Apparantly I could do nothing right yesterday as she fussed about 20 minutes into her free time even though it's usually her favortite part of the day. When I put her in the bath she screamed and acted like the water was too hot. I always double check and even to my wrist it felt ok but it did make her little legs red so maybe it was too warm. I felt guilt about that all night. She was restless in the tub so it was short and matter to fact, she had a bottle and headed to bed which turned into about an hour or on and off crying and hollering with me checking on her repeatedly. She finally fell asleep about 10:30. At 5 am we had storms roll through our area and she woke up..I didn't grab her out of bed and it wasn't the last time this morning I'd hear my little angel chattering in there.

She has only been up about an hour so far today and she seems happy but we'll see how the naps go..they are the key to a good day and a great night. Most people I talk to think if you don't let your kid sleep during the day they will sleep better at night and this is oh so not true.

Today I am exhausted as I stayed up far too late again and was woke by an earlier line of storms than Miss Gracie this morning. I have a too do list a mile long and no energy, I find myself looking forward to nap time again but don't want to get my hopes up. I prayed last night to be more patient and more open to the things that are thrown to me each day but it can be quite a challenge. I am hoping for a good end to a not so wonderful week in the Garber household.