It all began late Tuesday night............ Our usual 3 hour stretch of sleep was cut short..... very short. The screaming rang through the house. If I didn't know better I would have believed there was a bull horn involved. I went into Jakes room to ckeck it out and see what was going on. He was so upset and I have never seen so much face goo. I really mean it.
That was a very rough night. Thank goodness Colin helps out a lot on rough nights otherwise it would have made for even a shorter night. I believe we got 3 hours of sleep a piece that night. The next day was story time so I toughed it out with the boys.... in a haze. Colin toughed it out at work and we were hopeful that the next night would come with more zzzz's. But, after a day of Jake crying and Jason picking on him......... we couldn't have imagined what was coming. Just before Colin got home Jason decided that all Jake needed to be happy was to be tackled. It was nice of him to try but wasn't as effective as he had hoped. As Jason flew through the air I could see the look on Jacob's face.... his eyes got big just before they closed and he instinctively huddled into a ball on the floor. The impact was one that you see in movies. Jason hit his little brother with such a force that both of them rolled accross the floor and then the real screaming began.
We toughed it out through dinner and it only got worse. This should have been old news for us and we should have understood what was happening since we had been through it once before, but we didn't remember. With more screaming came a fever and less sleep. I was baffled and was convinced Jake was experiencing his first cold. Then he began the chewing. Chewing on anything that crossed his path. One good thing about this was that it muffled his cries. The poor dogs went into hiding after he started to chew on them.
Last night we had a break through.... literally. Jacob's 4th tooth broke through. He was still cranky, but we got more sleep last night than we had in the 3 prior nights combined. Hopefully this is the last tooth that causes us so much grief.
Jason has been a trooper during this cry fest.... even though he has had what I call brother moments...... the sneaking in a kick, pushing his brother over, and yelling at him. Most of the time he is a helper and hugs Jake and tells him stories.
Now we are just hoping that we have a lot of sleep in our near future. Ther is a big storm coming our way so maybe the kids will want to rest too...... since we can't do a lot outside when our highs are near 0. Have a great weekend and I will take some pics of the boys and post them over the weekend........... ENJOY!!!!
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