April 1, 2011

  • Grant doesn't sleep; he just cries.  Maybe he'll sleep for 2 hours, and then wake up crying.  I couldn't console him last night, so I turned over a new leaf to let him cry it out.  I got him all nice and comfy in the toddler bed and left, and not too long later he got frantic.  I went back up to the room, and things were not so great.  He was out-of-control screaming.  He had managed to get my cup of water (which I thought was out of his reach) and spill it on the queen bed a little, and then dumped a large puddle by the door to the room.  His pajamas were all wet too.  My iPod touch was on the queen bed, which is not where I had left it.  The kleenex that I had left on the desk (next to where the water and the ipod touch had been) had blood on it.  I suspected his mouth, and his poor chipped tooth was bleeding from the gums, and I think it was chipped even more, and maybe the other one too -- it's awful, and I don't want to look again.  I need to call the dentist in the morning.  I've taken him in several times, but they kept telling me he was too young for them to fix it.  Now he won't have any teeth to fix. 

    I felt terrible and horrible and awful and comforted him and now we've been up for over 3 hours and it's 1:30 a.m., and will he ever go to sleep?  But I can't leave him by himself.  He'll hurt himself and the room and it'll be awful.

     

    Gotta go!