Musical Beds

It's nighttime at the Kendrick home, and it's time to play everyone's favorite game: Musical Beds or "Where will I wake up tomorrow?"

All three girls actually fell asleep in their own beds. Sunny often gets wild enough that she gets to come down to the play room, but not tonight. Wow, we might all sleep in our own beds... Not too much later, Buster is put in his crib.

Then...

Missy woke up, sort of, needing to go to the bathroom. Sometimes in the middle of the night her brain doesn't relay the fact that if she needs to go to the bathroom, she needs to move her legs and walk to the bathroom. She just sits there and cries. Ben rushed up and brought her downstairs before she could wake up Buster. He was stirring, so she went to sleep in the Playroom.

Sometime later Buster woke up and wanted to eat. He went back to his crib.

Sunny, who has had a cold, started coughing. We were worrying that she would wake Buster up, but she came down by herself. With Missy in the play room, Sunny was put in our bed. A few minutes later, Missy woke up and went back up to her bed. We put some medicated rub on Sunny and put her in the play room. Kandy was the only child to remain in her own bed from the time she was supposed to be asleep until now (early in the morning).

Last night Buster did not want to go back to sleep after his midnight feeding, so Ben let him crawl around until he collapsed from exhaustion in the middle of the living room floor. Ben spent the entire night out there with him. I spent most of the night on the couch trying to be comfortable with my sore rotator cuff and to be with Ben. I got to bed at 5:00 A.M. and then Buster woke up and wanted to eat at 6:15.

"Before you were born, Jack, your parents were happy. They were free."
-Captain J.S. Hook

Buster is 8 months old! (And has been for a while...)

So I got a little behind. I took Buster's 8-month pictures on November 1, but I still hadn't posted them. Oops. I decided I better do it before I do his 9-month pictures next week.

He is crawling around like crazy, and he loves being mobile. He does not, however, like the gate.(This picture is courtesy of Sunny.) Here he is, eyeing the cat food on the other side.

It has been a while...

Wow, I can't believe I haven't written here for 10 days! The night of the election, I composed a blog entry in my mind while in the shower, but I was too tired to really write it down when I got out!

Ben was out of town last weekend. His company sent him to Chicago for the election. He was originally going for customer service on the poll machines, but he ended up driving deliveries of election materials instead. We were kind of mystified why they didn't have some locals do that! While he was gone, Missy and Sunny both got a stomach flu. Fun for me! I didn't feel to great on Monday, either. I was glad when he got home on Wednesday!!!

Ready to Trick or Treat!