What a week

This has been our most exhausting week to date, I think. At least what I can remember. Starting Monday afternoon, Courtney has had a meltdown every.day.this.week. She won't nap but she's tired. And then she cries. And then she screams. And it goes on and on and on. For at least an hour. And I know if she would just fall asleep, she'd feel better. She doesn't know that though. So she screams and carries on and wears me out and then, finally, she'll fall asleep. Usually in my arms or next to me in the bed and then I'm trapped. So anything I was hoping to do or cleaning I needed to do or just generally catching my breath, can't really happen. If she'd just sleep, all would be right in the world!! It's exhausting, all this screaming. I mess with nap times, I put her down sooner, I let her cry it out, I try and get her to fall back to sleep and none of it works. She doesn't do reasoning yet so that doesn't work either.

She's been doing a little better with the nighttime sleeps, waking up only once or so. She'll usually wake up around 4 or so and then again around 7 or 8. I guess we can't really call 7am waking up at night. Many people are up for the day already by 7, we're just not those people.

I need a break though. Fortunately, my sister-in-law is going to babysit tonight and Paul and I are going to get some dinner. And next week we're going to Florida for a week. Of course, Courtney is coming also but it will be nice to have Paul and my mother-in-law there to help out. Oh, and did I mention that my back is killing me? I'm going to the chiropractor tomorrow and hopefully a couple more times before we go. I tend to always carry Courtney on my left side and it's beginning to take it's toll.

Despite all of that, Courtney continues to be the cutest girl ever.

The johnny-jump-up is still just a little big for her...