My Baby The Werewolf

"what do you mean feet arent allowed on the table while I eat mom?"

That’s right, my child. is a werewolf. Something about the full moon drives him crazy. How do I know this you ask? Well I have kept track. This is the third full moon to mess up his night sleep schedule. He has yet to sleep well during a full moon. (because he’s a werewolf(cub)). Last night, the night of the full moon… as we were driving home from small group I mentioned that we were in for it during the night because of the full moon and the last two full moon experiences. Hubby scoffed. We got home and he went down great, fell asleep really fast. Was my full moon theory bogus? Wrong. 4am. Somebody (not naming names BabyA) woke up full on screaming. Not just fussing. Screaming. This is from the baby that doesn’t ever wake up during the night. Hubby and I each had our “is that my kid screaming” moment followed by my “I told you so.” Hubs got up and rescued the werewolf.. still screaming. We brought him to our bed thinking nightmare? Cuddles? Mommy? But no. all of the above no. still screaming. Screaming with the binky in his mouth. I had just gotten back in bed from my nightly pumping so I was mostly awake and mostly irritated. I still don’t know what that child wanted. We were not fixing whatever he thought was wrong, and we were all tired and all annoyed with each other. So we decided that there was nothing we could really do other than just get up and be awake with him. Which was not an option because we aren’t going to teach him screaming gets an early wakeup. I debated texting (my mom) Mimi who is living under us for a couple months to come up because she doesn’t sleep either and I bet she was awake. But then we go full circle back to teaching him to scream to get what he wants. This was a lot of thinking happening at 4am. So after 5 minutes of giving in and trying him in bed with us and it not working. We put him back in his own crib to cry it out. And by ‘we’ I mean hubs physically got up and did it because I just had gotten back in bed from pumping and was over the whole ‘awake’ thing. He scream/cried in his crib for two minutes, followed by intermittent crying jags in-between sleeping for the next 5. I put my pillow over my head to help tune it out and then next thing I know its 8am. Success. (we almost share a room with the baby. He has his own full room but its only accessible through our room and we share a huge arm-spaned size opening with no door between our rooms. So we can hear him really well)

Needless to say I drank my one-allowed-full-caffeine coffee this morning and felt cheated when it ran out.  

I’ll have to update about my mom, baby helmets, my first cavity, and all manner of other things later.