will this night ever end?

Sorry, no pics to go with this blog. You wouldn't want to see them anyways. Finley crying...waking every 10 minutes screaming...my hair disheveled...and more tired than I can say. No, you wouldn't want to see the pictures that go along with this blog.

Matthew and Jeramy have been working in the basement and they work down there until pretty late....past our kid's bedtime. Finley does not do well when he isn't on HIS schedule. He finally went to sleep at 11 tonight...not too bad, but for some reason he has felt the need to wake up every 10 minutes and not just cry, but scream. He opens his eyes and looks around and screams. It's the most pitiful, sad, and infuriating thing ever. I run through the questions you are supposed to ask yourself. I know that last time he ate was umm....20 minutes ago, so no, he's not hungry. He had a new diaper put on before bed and I checked it for the 10th time just now. The one thing I do know is HE IS TIRED! I will pick him up and after a couple of minutes, he will fall right to sleep....a deep sleep. How do I know this? He starts to dream and then laughs in his sleep. Laughs when he was just screaming 2 minutes ago! What's up with that? And this is no ordinary laugh. He laughs so hard in his sleep that a couple of times he had to stop and catch his breath. Even being as tired as I was and upset that he wouldn't sleep, I had to laugh with him. It doesn't make sense to be laughing together at 1 o'clock in the morning, but there we were laying on the couch, laughing. Neither of us knew what we were laughing at, but it didn't matter.

So, after getting up with him 6 times, I thought he was finally back to sleep. I was creeping into our room to get back in bed, and the pager went off for the Fire Department. Oh Finley loved that! I loved it too. Back out to the living room we went. Matthew ran around looking for his coat, then his hat, and finally ran out the back door, and Finley and I sat and listened to the pager as the Climax First Responders radioed in and did their thing.

He is finally asleep (I think for good). Hasn't been up once since I started blogging. Yay! I'm going to bed!