sleep. what? never heard of it......

my night in a nut shell.

9:30 pm - i had been in bed for 20 minutes. just long enough to doze off.
TJ begins to cry. "well if he's going to wake up tonight it may as well be early on"

9:35ish -Tj is dozing back off. i can hear him singing to himself over the monitor.

10:30 - he's awake again. crying. badly. i get up and go in and see about him. mom is up too. diaper change and a drink of water are given. mom goes back to bed and i rock in dad's big chair til tj is quiet and mostly asleep.

11:05 - Tj is back in his bed and so am i.

1 am - he's up again. this time mom meets me in the hall and tells me that she'll take care of it and go back to bed.so i do.

2 am -he's crying again! i don't know if he'd been awake this whole time b/c i dozed back off at some point. i get up this time and peek down the hall and my dad is in there trying to settle him back down.
"you shouldn't be in here you have to work!" i try and exclaim quietly. my dad has to be up at 4:15 to get ready for work. dad said he didn't mind giving it a shot since he was already awake and TJ had been awake so long. but of course i had been spotted by tj himself so i wasn't totally off the hook.

2:30 -he's had a sippy cup of milk. some tylenol b/c i'm sure he's teething. i changed his jammies b/c i just couldn't' shake the feeling that, even though it was freezing outside and mighty chilly in his room if the door is shut, that he was hot. we got comfy in the chair and he immediately starts to doze.

3 am -we're both back in our own beds -again.

6 am - this was the longest stint he slept. i didn't even give him much of a chance to let him get awake. i went in and got him out of his crib. my parents have a right comfy futon in the room where tj sleeps. so rather than going BACK to the living room chair i plopped down right there. (this is where i made a HUGE mistake)
once i got him back to sleep -which took less than 5 minutes probably- i just laid him on my chest and went to sleep. we both slept on the futon til 7:45. though he did wake up about every 20 minutes or so and fuss i managed to keep him asleep enough that we caught a few more z's.

but we'll see how tonight goes.
if it wasn't for the sake of him disrupting the whole house -especially with my dad having to go work so early -i'd let him cry it out like i do at home. but since someone went in every time he woke up - the kind of wake ups where you can tell he's NOT going back to sleep without a fight - AND i allowed him to sleep with me for those last few hrs, well, i will not be expecting a good nights sleep tonight either b/c now he knows "if i pitch a big enough fit mom will let me sleep with her just so i'll shut up."
we'll see.
i think we'll go to walmart when it warms up some and get the stuff to make sock puppets. i need something to look forward to so i don't loose it today and they will keep him good and entertained.