Thursday, December 30, 2010

3AM

I got up to feed Jack at 12:30 and I am still awake...it's almost 3.  My dog, Chloe, has been licking herself this entire time-no joke!  It is beginning to drive me crazy.  I wonder if she does this every night and I just sleep through it?  Who knows.  I hate the feeling of not being able to sleep.  It usually means that my mind is thinking about hundreds of things all at once...wow, this licking is really driving me crazy...ok, I just moved her...maybe it will stop now.  Nope, no luck.  I think it actually got louder.  Anyways....we took down our Christmas decorations tonight and I was actually ready to see them go.  The only bad thing about it is that our Christmas tree was taking up an empty space in our living room where we desperately need chairs.  Another thing I'm realizing now is that Jack squeaks a lot in his sleep.  He is still sleeping in our room but will be moving out as soon as we get around to buying a baby monitor.  I would really like to get a video monitor for peace of mind but they are so much more expensive than regular monitors.  Any thoughts on which is better?  Is it worth the extra bucks to get a video one?  Oh wait-she stopped licking!  My apologies for the random ramblings.  I hope this insomnia thing does not become a habit.

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  1. We got a regular monitor for Hunter and it has been great. Now he is older and starting to play in his crib before sleeping of half way waking up in the night, if we go in to check on him he fully wakes and wants out so now I wish we had a video monitor so we could peek in without him knowing. Just a heads up on this type...I have friends that got the monitor that senses when the baby moves...they hated it. They said it was so sensitive and kept them up all night.

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  2. Thanks for the tip, B. I didn't even know there was a monitor that senses when the baby moves.

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  3. My thoughts: The video monitor is SOOOOOO worth it! So many times he sounds like he is waking up and I would have definitely walked in there but with the monitor I can see he is actually trying to go back to sleep. (sometimes for 20 minutes even...) Camille said the same thing B did and they actually ended up switching to the video monitor because Henry was just playing and they wanted to see without having to go in there & make him think nap was over. :)

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  4. oh and maddie & oliver do the licking thing too and it drives me NUTS! I normally yell stop in the middle of the night & wake Freeland up! :)

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