Last night was our roughest night with Wavy by far. I say “night” loosely, because it wasn’t so much the night as the lead up to the night. Waverly woke up yesterday evening after supper, and had some awake time, as tends to be her routine. However, she stayed awake almost flawlessly until roughly 1:00am. We. Were. Exhausted. As was she. She would cry and cry and cry, but was noticeably unsettled. Her diaper was dry, she wasn’t too hot or too cold, and she was fed. She just needed to sleep. But she wouldn’t!! So we’d make her some milk, and she’d snort all over it like she was starving. She’d appear to be drinking from it for a solid 10-15 minutes and make NO progress. But it wasn’t plugged. We checked it multiple times. But then she’d be out cold. So we’d lay her down, and she’d wake up all in a tizzy again. After hours and hours of this, we felt even worse for her because she was very likely legitimately hungry from not actually consuming any of her milk, and she was obviously incredibly overtired. As were her parents. That last time I checked her bottle, it was completely plugged. She screamed as I made her a fresh bottle, which she promptly demolished and fell asleep. Oh. My. Gosh. Brady and I flopped into bed and slept through until she woke us up around 6:30am. So she gave us a great stretch of sleep, but we earned it!!
Brady has started reading us random facts to fill some time as we’re falling asleep or waking up slowly. My favourite one is that the space between ones eyebrows is called a glabella. Guys, I have no idea if its true or not, but I LOVE it. Also, I have hair on my glabella.
So after a pretty ridiculous night, we actually had plans to drive to our friends campsite at a nearby lake. I didn’t know at first if we’d be able to make it.
It took a bit to get up and at em, but it happened! I took Rowan for a little walk to pick up breakfast, which was so nice. He is SUCH a sweet treat! He is the first kid who requested a longer date, so we took a bit more of a round about way back 🙂 We ate a yummy breakfast before packing up, getting into swim stuff, and heading out. Even with keeping our morning simple, we got to our friends place right around lunch.
Pizza bush pies were delicious, as you’d expect. The kids were already happy and filthy and cute. A few friends left after lunch, and the rest of us meandered down to the beach.
We spent the afternoon sitting in the shade on the beach while our group of kids played happily in the sand, rocks, and water. Four adults and eight kids. It was a good sized group and we had the beach almost all to ourselves. They spread out well and enjoyed the sun! It was SO relaxed. Very much our speed.
Things got a bit iffy as the afternoon rolled on, however. Solly had napped on the drive over, but Ro had not. Ro is a bit older and is fine being nap-free from time to time, but my goodness, he NEEDED one today! He and Solly started to lose their marbles right around the same time, and it was clearly time to head out. But first, Dekker and Laela had their first ever boat ride!!! They even each got to DRIVE the boat!!
They were hesitant, and then super pumped 🙂
Leaving was a bit of an undertaking with two tearful boys who I work HARD not to call Frick and Frack these days, but we got everyone strapped into the van and on the road around 4pm, and Ro slept the entire drive back to Waskesiu. One of the two isn’t bad.
Macaroni and wieners was supper, because easy food that no one fights was just so necessary. After supper, Brady played some guitar and I fed Wavy while the kids played. Bedtime was routine, and I’m hoping my bedtime isn’t too far away!!
Its been so relaxed and nice. I’m so thankful for today and how its gone.