sleep regression strikes again! what the.

oh.  hai.
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i’m so exhausted i feel like i might be (almost) dead.   but fear not!  i am alive and kicking and still being a productive person on some level.

my parents were just here from thursday night – monday night and it was great seeing them with little joaq.   he’s such a little character and so full of curiousity and determination – and also: SILLINESS.   he’s just cuter and cuter by the day.

HOWEVER.  he picked the exact timing of their visit to fall back into sleep regression in a major way.  we’re now back to him waking up every few hours to wail and whine at us until a) he exhausts himself back into sleep b) aaron rocks him back to sleep or c) i nurse him back to sleep.    this makes for some particularly interesting "conversations" between aaron and i in the middle of the night regarding our philosophies on how to handle.    what made it PARTICULARLY terrible is the fact that my parents stayed with us thurs – sat nights, and then we stayed in a hotel for the FIRST TIME EVER on sunday night.   so letting him cry for elongated periods of time wasn’t an option (in my mind) while it WAS an option for aaron.    ugh.   just kind of terrible.

guys.  i don’t do well without sleep.  i’m terrible in the morning as it is, but remove most of my sleep from the night and i’m 1000x worse.   once i’ve had coffee and maybe a nice, long, hot shower i usually can take on the day, but i have some pretty scary moments of just being so incredibly spastic at night that i just can’t even… i just can’t.

so:  to focus on positive things:

we had some great moments with my parents & JRB.   we ate out at restaurants, we hung out in the park, we traveled to santa barbara and went wine tasting, we went to a movie premiere thingie, we ate delicious foods and just generally bonded.   it made me very happy.  

however, the no-sleep part of it coupled with some really stressful deadlines for work stuff made me almost want to stick a fork in my eye.

but we made it through!   hallelujah.

new news:  joaquin has now stayed in a fancy hotel, graduated to the big boy tub (no more inflatable ducky!), become super efficient at cruising, made progress in balancing on his OWN TWO FEET, sampled lots of new foods (watermelon, pulled pork, cauliflower soup, steak, chorizo, and more)  and he LIKED all of it!

he continues to be a joy and inspiration, minus the mind-bleeding crying stints over the past few nights.  <3

i’m blessed to be swamped with workstuff, so back to it I go!