Like Father Like Daughter

There are times in life where you have to stop and laugh-Ava had been giving us a fit one night, and usually she is pretty good *knock on wood* about going to sleep, even though she still wakes up about once every night, she is usually pretty good about going back to sleep...this particular night was Oh my gosh I could scream completely out of the normal for us. Ava decided she wanted to wake up and play at about 2:00 in the morning, but she didn't want to play in her crib so that mommy and daddy could stay in their bed and continue to sleep, she wanted to climb over us and between us and she constantly tried to dive off the end of the bed. I, the frustrated, exhausted, about to pull my hair out, patient mom that I am got up took her to the living room and hoped that a round of baby einstein would calm her down and relax her....she wanted nothing to do with it...so it went on like this for about 2 hours and I finally had her quieted down and drifting off to never, never land. I head in to her room, lay her down and on cue, she sits straight up and looks at me, as if to say, I intend on teaching you a lesson about leaving me in the middle of the night, Mommy, please let me stay with you! So I pick her up and we go through the entire routin again. At about 6 in the morning, mind you I have been dealing with this since 2, I turn to Adam, who doesn't have to get up and go to work and pour on the guilt trip about how I am the one who has to be at work the next morning and how he has the opportunity to take a nap later on, he should be the on who is up with her lovingly ask if he will please take over so I could get just a couple more hours of sleep. At that point I was so tired, as soon as he walked out the bedroom door, I was out until about 8:30. When I woke back up, I didn't hear any commotion in the house, and usually our child is running at full speed by 7:00 so I started to get worried and I sneak into the living room and find Adam and Ava on the loveseat, sound asleep- I would say it is so much like father like daughter- but I will let the picture do the talking....

It's moments like these that make you forget that the night was so bad!