Rough Night

Well once it again here I am on the computer, after midnight! You would think I would be sleeping with what little sleep I got last night. Poor Riley is not feeling to well. She keeps getting all stopped up and has a hard time breathing at night. Even though I do the saline washes before bed, have a cool mist humidifier in her room and use vapor rub she still is completely stopped up. Last night was no acception. She woke up at 12, 2, 4 and 6! Each time screaming bloody murder. I think she was scaring herself by trying to breath through her nose. Of course I got up with her all but the last time because my husband sleeps through everything but the alarm clock! I think it is a man thing, most wives and moms that I talk to say there husbands are heavy sleepers also.

This is going to be a bit off subject but I have beeen thinking about the past year and what has happened. I thought I would remember every little detail of Riley's first year but alas there are things that have slipped the mind. My mom was here over the holidays and left her camera with me to record more of my daughter and niece until he returns in Feb. so I watched some of Riley's videos when she was born. I knew she was small but had forgoten just how small she was! The picture above is from when she was only 6 days old, and in my husbands arm. Sorry I tried to post it bellow but I'm still new to this. I had forgoten how she cried when she was first born and little storied that I have written down I had forgoten about also. Thank goodness for my baby book or I wouldn't have these stories to tell her. I guess my mind is foccused on new memories and, like a memory card in a camera, only has so much room and must delete certain pictures to make room for more!

My favorite story right now is kind of gross. Riley gets pretty bad diaper rashes so at my doctors advice I let her go diaperless for about 5 minutes several times. This is to let her air out. Well the other day I did this and while we do expect that there are times she may pee on the floor, we did not expect this. My husband was preparing his PT's and ACU's for the next day (for those of you who are do not speak fluent Military *LOL* PT's are his Physicall Training uniform and ACU's are his como's so to speak) and looking right at her, I had turned away for just a second to throw her diaper away when we both heard her scream. Of course I go rushing over to see what had happend, did she hit her head and we didn't see it? Is she caught in something? What is going on? Apearantly in the 2 minutes she had her diaper off and crawled over to her toys she pooped and decided to eat it. When she realized it didn't tast good she got VERY upset. So at this point my husband and I are disgusted, I'm rushing to get her clothes off, he's rushing to get a bath ready. I scrubbed her off before putting her in the tub and washed her mouth out as best as I could. She still wasn't very happy. Like I said this story is a bit disgusting but I had to laugh, I had heard of kids pulling poop out of their pants and into their mouths but never in my wildest dreams did I expect this! I told my husband it's said when we can say our 10 month old had a poopy mouth that had to be washed out! ;0) She did not swallow any, it was really only on the corner of her mouth. But I don't think she will be trying that again!