Half way...

Done with this term that I am referring to as Hell Term. Ugh! We have a dang quiz every day this week, and I am over it! At least they are only quizzes though. Sheesh! I have an end in sight..looks like April will be the magic month for me, and I will be a graduate! Woot! At least I have a date to look forward to now, and it makes the time left seem minimal. At least for now.

Katelynn can no longer sleep on our bed, at least when Daddy is the only one in bed. He said that this morning she was trying to escape, and almost had a major accident, so when I got home, I moved the crib into our room. I thought he would be happy to see it, but he was perplexed on why we had it in our room...even though he has been saying for ages we need to move it in pronto. I guess he was just confused on why I took it all of the way apart to move it, instead of just leaving it in her room. I am not ready to move her all of the way across the house! She sleeps like a rock with me, and the moment I put her in there, I am going to be making endless trips across the house all night--not him. He will sleep right through everything, or get really pissy if I ask him to go check on her, I know this because when we moved Matthew to his room, that was the experience we had. So...I tried putting her in it as soon as I dressed it all up really pretty, and she almost fell asleep. If I didn't have to feed her lunch, I am pretty sure she would have stayed in it.

At bedtime, it was another story. She blew her gasket to be in there. I put her in it while it was still semi light outside so that she wouldn't be afraid in the dark, and she instantly fell asleep. She must have known it was Matthew's bedtime as she freaked when I was brushing his teeth. I finished what I could with him, and ran into my room to see her purple faced, and she was trying to catch her breath from crying so hard--you know the kind..she was totally hyperventilating. Well, that isn't worth it to me. I scooped her up and she fell asleep in my arms watching tv. Hey, I didn't mind. I love her to pieces, and hate to see her get so upset. She was crying so hard.

Once I knew she was out cold, I tried moving her again to the crib, (I have to say I tried to Mike so he knows I really am) and at first she just barely whimpered, and I thought we were going to have success..as soon as she knew I was serious about her staying, she flipped out again, and the same thing with her hyperventilating happened. So..needless to say, she was sleeping on the sofa when Mike came home. I cannot let her cry that hard. No way. I let Matthew CIO when I was trying to get him to go night-night alone in the crib when he outgrew his swing..his CIO doesn't even come close to what she does..I have never seen her flip her lid so much. They definitely have two different personalities..she is going to be the baby that has a lot of fears, where Matthew is fearful, but loves Halloween, scary masks, that kinda thing. Mike was wearing one of his Halloween masks the other night, and she flipped out. He wasn't even talking in a scary voice, and she was petrified of him, and cried. I just can't get over how early it starts. I didn't think that babies went through this until they were toddlers, and knew the difference between scary, and friendly. I guess she proved me wrong!
Hopefully when I put Kate in her crib in the morning when I go to school, things will be alright, and she just plays for a little while. I am scared as heck to hear how things are going to go. Fingers crossed!