Our trip to Blind River was a little rough. Rowan did sleep for over 2 hours but when the drive is 6 hours long, that leaves a good solid 4 hours of pure back seat entertaining for me to do. I was exhausted after making face after face after face and singing silly song after silly song. We managed to keep the crying and whining to a minimum and it was really only the last 2 hours or so that were tough. I am dreading the ride back to Ottawa already. I have 3 more sleeps to prepare myself though.
The ride here was nothing compared to the terrible nights we have been having. Rowan has developed a runny nose and is plugged up. I think that his difficulty breathing has prevented him from sucking his thumb which means he can't soothe himself back to sleep when he does stir. He has also discovered his lungs and what used to be crying and complaining has become screaming and yelling. He likes to practice these new skills when he can't get back to sleep which just wakes him up even more. We've had him in our bed every night since we have been away even though he has a brand new play pen to sleep in (we caved and got a playpen with our Sears dollars after he refused to sleep in the tent), but that doesn't help. In fact, I think it makes things worse because I believe that the runny nose is due to the cats and our bed has been visited a time or two by Arnie and Katie. To make things worse, I think that he is teething again because his cheeks are red and he is pulling on his ears. So, if you put allergies, teeth, a lot of travel, a new bed (or 2), sleeping between a mommy and a daddy who make the bed bounce, new food, new fun skills like yelling and standing and new environments all together, you get one very happy day-time-baby but one very unhappy night-time-stinker-bum. You also get parents who are very worried that their good sleeper will not return when they get home again and back into their regular routines. All of that hard work might have gone down the toilet thanks to our trip to England and the moving around we have been doing for the past 4 weeks...
I am going to try and not think about that for now and enjoy the rest of our 3 days here with my parents. We don't get up here very much anymore and they don't get to see Rowan as often as they like and so a few tough nights are worth it (I wouldn't ask me if I feel that way at 2am though with a screaming, yelling baby on my hands). Rowan loves his grammy and poppa. You can see it in his big smiles. Here they are together in front of the sunken ship. It was a beautiful day for a walk on the lake.
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