How to Give Yourself a Black Eye Without Really Trying

Because I am a paranoid, crazy person new mother I decided to pay outragous shipping costs to get it as quickly as possible purchase a Snuza movement monitor.  This tiny little device clips on baby's diaper and sends off an alarm if it doesn't detect movement, like breathing, for 20 seconds.  We've had a couple false alarms, one where we didn't think it was a false alarm resulting in all kinds of medical tests, and overall I am couldn't sleep at night without it happy with my purchase. 

So, Miss Em has been sleeping in her own crib for the last 2 nights.  Only by the grace of God did Paul not find me curled up in a ball on the nursery rug.  I think I've done very well with it.   Some of the fears I've had were that I wouldn't hear her, wouldn't hear the snuza, etc.

1st nap in the crib...notice the Snuza and the very appropriate diaper with skull & crossbones.  Classy!

So, last night the battery on the monitor died.  For some reason I assumed it would beep to let me know the batter was getting low, but I guess not.  Of course I was sleeping when this happened so I didn't know until the following events occurred.  Although I do feel better knowing I can still hear her fairly well without the monitor.  That doesn't mean I'm going to stop using the monitor, but I did lower the volume from ear shattering down to a more tolerable level.

I am super asleep having some very bizarre dreams when I hear the Snuza going off.  I bolt out of bed and can't find my flashlight on my nightstand so I just start heading for the nursery.  Apparently I wasn't quite awake because I bounced off our bedroom door frame using only my face.  As impressive as that was it was more impressive that I then didn't fall down the stairs as I pinballed into the hallway.

Turn on the nursery light and Em doesn't even stir.  Unzip her sleeper and the Snuza was going off because she had squirmed it off her diaper.  Whew...false alarm.  I turn it off and figure that since I'm up and she's stirring I might as well nurse her and check her diaper.  No poop and surprisingly no pee yet (which she has more than made up for this morning by not only peeing on Paul, but also by peeing on me).

I wonder how long she would've slept if the Snuza hadn't gone off although historically she probably wouldn't have gone much past 4:30am or 5am.  She then woke up again at 6:30am and then only slept until 7:30am although she was content to play with her hands in her crib until 8am. 

I am pretty certain I've cracked my cheek bone and am still waiting to see if I'm going to have a black eye.  lol

Our plans for today include going to look at the Dodge Caravan and looking at new grills.  You'd think we would've learned last year when our new gazebo got demolished by the mild winter we had to bring our stuff inside in the winter.  We did not and this winter claimed our gas grill.  Paul told me there was no repairing it and I was sure when he was TDY this past week that I could get out there and shine it all up. 

I could not (I hate it when he's right!).