What is a full nights sleep? I forget...

A full nights sleep around here has become pretty nonexistent.  I totally forget what that is.  First, I have found that my aging bladder is not my friend.  I am guaranteed a minimum of 2 trips to the bathroom each night just for that.  But I also share this house with an insomniac.  Bryttaney does NOT sleep!  So while the rest of us are sleeping she is wandering the house doing odd things.  Like randomly flushing toilets, doing laundry (no, she doesn't know how to do it, but knows how to put stuff in, start it, get bored 1/2 way through a cycle and toss the sopping wet, still full of suds, items into the dryer), play with the dogs or cats, etc.  But on a positive note, she no longer leaves the house at 2 in the morning and no longer tries to put the cat into the refrigerator or the mailbox.

I don't know why, but I tend to take the brunt of it on myself.  Must be a mom thing.  I sleep in this 1/2 sleep area of my brain and sense when she is doing something and jump up to try and deter her before she wakes up anyone else.

An example:

Our satellite is connected to her TV, so whatever is on our TV is also playing on hers.

Recently I heard her door open so I roll over in bed as she enters the room.  She is listening to her MP3 player at its loudest volume setting, as she "whispers":

"Can I change the channel?" 

I inch my arm out from under the blanket and sign "yes" to her.

So naturally she turns the light on (duh...she can't see my signing hands in the dark, yet you will catch me doing it at least once a week) and "whispers":

"What?" 

So I put my I finger to my lips to quiet her, point at dad sleeping on the other side of the bed, and sign "yes" again.

She turns out the light, turns the TV on, switches the channel and then loudly "whispers":

"I forgot to take my medicine.  Two pills, at bedtime, by mouth."

So I tell her to take it now.  I roll over and see that is is 3:30 in the morning, to close to her next dose so I tell her to forget it, don't take it now.  To which she "whispers"

"See I told you!" 

Other things that she like to share with me at 3am:

• Every level she beats on any Nintendo DS or Wii game she is playing
• That the dog is drinking out of the toilet
• That said toilet is overflowing
• Today's date
• Yesterday date
• Wants to know what we are having for dinner
• That the dog or cat has puked somewhere
• That she has lost the rubber piece that goes on the ear buds of her headphones (have I mentioned she has a severe hearing loss?).  This usually results in my crawling around her room on my hands and knees looking for said rubber piece at all hours of the night...
• Things she has lost in her room and has rediscovered while looking for something else
• Etc, etc, etc....

I don't know how Robin sleeps through this, but he does...

McD's and Toilets, Oh my...

So today I was looking through some of my pictures from a few years ago and came across these.  In 2006 we decided to remodel the downstairs bathroom by completely gutting it and starting over.  We took out everything but the bathtub.  So these pictures are from the end of one of the days...

Lets start with the obvious and hysterical...yes that is Kamryn in the family room kneeling on the toilet and using the tank as her table for her McD's, because who doesn't like to dip nuggets without a good base?

Here is another view of the same thing, but even better because it shows how we are using the toilet as a table and watching cartoons at the same time while sitting in the family room.  And check out Matt sitting in an old preschool chair!  Do you think Kamryn washed her hands before eating or does it really matter at this point?

And you have totally got to love this one because they are all laughing at the cartoons on the tv and do you notice that Miss Kamryn is now licking the dipping sauce off her fingers, while sitting on the toilet in the family room.

Just when you think you might be up for parent of the year pictures like these surface lol.  Well, its 4 years later and Kamryn is still thriving so I guess it was ok :o)