Maybe tonight will be better

Last night was quite interesting, but not at all unusual. John Brady has such a difficult time going to sleep and last night was no different. I had to make him (more like force him) to sit with me until he finally gave it up and went to sleep. I settled back into my nice big chair when Emma appeared in the living room and said that she couldn't sleep. I told her she could get on the couch. Brady left the living room to go to our bed. Emma and I stayed up watching House together until I fell asleep. At some point I woke up and realized Emma had gotten in bed with Brady because I couldn't stay awake with her.

I went back asleep on the couch only to wake up around 11:30 pm when John Brady crawled onto the couch next to me. He said his tummy was hurting. John Brady fell back asleep and I put him in the chair and covered him with a quilt. I went back to sleep on the couch and was awakened a couple of hours later to find John Brady sitting up in the chair drinking a Coke Zero and watching TV!!! Drinking a Coke Zero!! I took the can away and made him lay down again only to be awakened again around 4am when I heard John Brady crying that his tummy was hurting again. He was in his bedroom floor trying to put on clean underwear. He got back on the couch with me after putting his underwear on and told me there was tee-tee in the floor in the bathroom. I got up to find a lot of tee-tee in the floor and a poo-poo filled toilet!! Diarrhea!! I cleaned the tee-tee and followed the brown droplets to his room to the spot where he had been sitting on the carpet trying to change his underwear. I cleaned the carpet and returned to the couch to sleep next to John Brady.

Next Abby appeared in the living room and was upset because she was all alone in her room. I told her to get in the bed with Emma and Brady, but she wanted to stay in the living room with us. So there we were, all three wide awake watching Little House on the Prairie together at 4:30 in the morning! I kept trying to figure out what Charles and Caroline would do. I started to doze off only to be awakened by Abby asking me how the tooth fairy gets inside the house. My eyes sprung open. Yikes!!! Abby's tooth was still under her pillow and it was 5:30 in the morning!! I knew I had a $10 bill in my purse, but no change! So I dug into the back of our closet to get Abby's ziploc piggy bank (her piggy bank was busted by John Brady several months ago when he rolled it off the bed) so I could make change. Yes!!! Thanks to generous grandparents Abby had enough $1 bills to make change. I snuck past Abby and went into her room and put 5 ones under her pillow. I crawled back onto the couch and actually fell asleep. Abby went to sleep, but John Brady stayed awake until 8:30 pm tonight!!!!