Tuesday night was the worst night of sleep EVER in my entire life.

After Ryan had been sleeping for about an hour, he woke up screaming for me. He sounded miserable and I could tell something was really bothering him.

When I went in there, besides his crying, everything seemed fine. He reached up to me from the crib wanting me to pick him up. Unfortunately, this didn’t end the crying. Todd and I took him downstairs trying to calm him down with some ice cold water and some Barney. After about 15 minutes of the purple dinosaur, he calmed down.

It’s really hard when your child isn’t old enough to tell you what’s wrong. We asked him if it was his teeth that hurt and he said yes. His stomach – Yes. His head – Yes. He said yes to everything we asked him. We gave him some Tylenol (generic because of the recall) because we weren’t quite sure how to narrow down the problem.

Poor kid didn’t want to go back to bed. I held him and rocked him and then put him in the crib. He finally fell asleep for 30 minutes and woke again. He did this the entire night!! Just when I’d fall asleep, he would start screaming again. We even tried to see if he’d sleep in our bed with us. This always leads to lots of jumping on the bed and “Mama!” and “Papa!” conversation. One sided, of course. For the hundredth time it didn’t work, so back to the crib he went.

Finally, at about 3 in the morning he woke, we put him in our bed, and he fell asleep. He must have been so exhausted at this point that he gave in to sleeping. We all slept peacefully until about 6:45. Needless to say, we probably had about 4 hours of sleep, at the most, that night.

The lack of sleep made yesterday a very difficult day to get through. Fortunately he took a long nap so I was able to rest. Todd had to work so he was extremely tired when he made it home at 6 p.m.

It was also very obvious why Ryan was up crying all night. He had developed a cold and it must have given him a stuffy nose. Apparently he was so stuffy, he wasn’t able to breathe, which ended up keeping him awake all night. By nap time it had turned into a runny nose.

Simple, yet so complicated!

At this point you are probably wondering why I titled this post Thankful Thursday. So far I haven’t said anything very positive.

Well, here it goes…

Last night Ryan slept from 8:15 until 7:45 this morning…11.5 wonderful hours! For that, I am very thankful on this amazing Thursday!

I actually woke up feeling refreshed and ready for the day.

And yes, Ryan is feeling much better today.

I guess good can come from something bad!

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