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[prosodic]

Lance and I sleep in separate rooms more often than not, because he keeps having to get up so much earlier than I do, and he thinks it's doing me a favor for him to sleep somewhere else.

Sometimes this is true. Sometimes it isn't. Because Reece doesn't like it and she sometimes gets me up multiple times in the night to go find Daddy.

Sunday night, Lance slept in the guest room because he was getting up at 5:30...I was getting up at 6. Not really a big deal to me...I could've had him in the room with me. But he was insistent that I shouldn't be deprived of that extra half hour of sleep.

Reece got me up several times in the night anyway...twice, to look for him. So honestly, he didn't help me at all by sleeping in the other room.

Last night, he slept in our bedroom. I figured we could all finally get a good night's rest.

Guess not.

Shortly after we turned off the lights, Reece started barking and howling at some people who pulled into the neighbor's driveway. Two hours later, she got me up to go out, and she started barking and howling in the backyard. This was about midnight or so, so I slipped on my shoes as fast as I could and rushed out to yank her inside.

Got her inside a bit too early. She wasn't done answering nature's call yet. So she sat crying beside the bed. Lance got up with her and went outside with her to prevent her from barking again.

She came back in. Insisted on jumping in bed with us. We got her back down into her bed.

Finally, both of us started to fall back to sleep, and then I got this awful tickle in my throat and started coughing. Couldn't stop. I got up and left the room.

I guess Reece got upset when I left the room and sat by the door. I came in and she checked on me. Tried to jump in bed with us again. We got her back down in her bed.

She was restless for awhile and I could hear her moving around the room and chewing on her Kong. Finally...she settled down and went to sleep. I started dozing off.

Suddenly, she was at my side again, needing to go out again. Thankfully, she just went outside, peed, turned around and came back in.

I have no idea what time it was at this point...2:30, I think?

And I got up at 5:30. And guess who didn't want to get up?

But she's in day camp the next 3 days, so I don't expect more nights like this one for awhile.

Comments

[katzies.livejournal.com]

Wow, Reece is really one active puppy. I don't think Jodie ever kept us up at night after the first week. That just sounded like one of those annoying playgroup moms who compare their kids' level of potty training. It's probably because she's a Lab.

[godchick.livejournal.com]

I don't know how you get by on so little sleep on those kind of nights.

[prosodic.livejournal.com]

Two words: grande latte.