Sigh.

Today I just feel like heaving one big gigantic sigh. It's a sigh of frustration and it's a sigh of relief. All at the same dang time.

I was at the dentist yesterday because I had a filling done last week and it's still really sore. Come to find out I grind my teeth.

NO!

Here I was feeling all superior because I caught Court grinding his teeth the other night while I was up nearly all night with Victoria. Yeah, I felt superior. I'm a better person than he is because I don't grind my teeth.

Well that dream has been shattered. I had to have a guard made so I can stop thrashing on my teeth in my sleep. The dentist said you usually grind your teeth when you are under more stress.

No, really? Me? Stressed?

Sigh. I'm no better than the rest of you teeth grinding fools.

My kids have had turns being sick over the last couple of weeks. First Charlotte had a fever and spent a few nights sleeping in my bed with me, then Victoria thought she'd have a turn with the fever too. That completely threw off any kind of routine we may have had with her to begin with. Except it wasn't really a routine with her. It was more like "Well, the yellow blanket helped her fall asleep last night, let's just keep using that one." Ridiculous! So I got out my trusty book: The Baby Whisperer Answers All Your Questions. In a moment of genius my mom bought this book for me before I had Charlotte. I really couldn't have picked out a better book to help me figure out when the heck my kid is supposed to sleep and eat. If you know someone who is having a baby, get them this book. It's not about extremes, it's about learning what your baby needs based on personality type and the cues he or she gives you. It's about helping them learn how to settle themselves into sleep (Hello. Genius.). Every single thing in this book worked like magic with Charlotte. But basically when you have a colicky baby, all bets are off.

Bless her colicky heart, my Victoria has been a bit of a challenge. Up until now every single strategy I have tried has just ticked Miss Victoria off. And she is LOUD. And when she gets ticked you basically feel like a jerk and that she'll never forgive you. Well in a moment of desperation and tears in the middle of the night I finally got my book back out and came up with a plan. So today is day 2 of the Teach Victoria How to Sleep Like a Good Little Baby plan and so far so good. Getting her down for her first nap and also getting her to nap for longer than 30 minutes is my major challenge. But after a good night's sleep last night I'm up for it.

Sigh. It's getting better.