July 24, 2012 Silence is golden!!!

Hi All,

So how did your crate training experience go???? Sunday night for me was brutal. I think Ari has got to be the longest and loudest little one to crate train!!! OMG, sleep was in 20 minute intervals.... it was a challenging night....

See, the rumor you heard that we give away all the noisy ones isn't true.... We fix 'em!!!

Monday, Ari seems to be getting the play pen and crate idea... noise is down a great deal. Monday night - wait for it - she went to bed at 1030 pm and 'whimpered' for 5 minutes, rolled over and went to sleep. I had to get up at 430 am to travel into Vancouver to support friends with a very sick adult child, and she didn't wake up when I got up and left. Whose jealous of that????? I know I am. I would have dearly loved to catch up on my sleep but that was not the destination of the day....

As it turned out, this 30 year old child, had emergency open heart surgery and heart valve replacement today. Had they not taken him to the OR this morning, he more than likely would have died this afternoon due to complications of a blood stream staph infection. It was a tense day. I am happy to share that he has survived the surgery and the small bleeds (strokes) to his brain (also a complication of the staph infection) did not re-bleed. He was able to move all his body parts and nod his head when asked to.  Step-mother/father/sister/brother and friends cannot ask for more.

Unless, I get home to find that Ari is being an angel.... did you know that 'quiet' can actually mean quiet? And in my kitchen? YES!!! It's true!!! I am a little happy that she has decided that she can do this.

I hear that Pink Collar, got up only twice on her second night of training which is fantastic (I hope it was matched with when the baby woke up to eat and not in between).

Red Girl went home today and I will find out how she did tomorrow. Anyone else out there wish to share their successes?

Well, I'm off to finish laundry and clean up before my kids get here for an overnight visit ;-) This day makes me appreciate my kids even more. If you have them, give them a hug. If you don't, find some (and not in a creepy way) and give them a hug. You never know what waits for us around the next corner of life.....