Brady has had a pretty long stretch without consistent work. I know some of you have been asking what he even does that allows him to be home with me so often. For those who don’t know, Brady is a finishing carpenter. He works for Daytona Homes. When he is given a schedule, he’ll have a certain number of days to complete the homes. Its up to him whether to come in early or work late, or do what he needs to do to get them finished in a timely manner. Therefore, even when he has a full schedule, he can still find the time to come to eye doctor appointments, chiropractic appointments, etc. With all that being said, he’s kept decently busy with other private jobs. Its exciting to see his name being passed around a bit more these days 🙂 Feels all fancy and stuff,
Anyway, all that being said, Brady is finally back with Daytona. He is now officially booked or double booked every single weekday this month, plus a likely Saturday here or there. Its awesome, since I know he goes a little crazy just being home every day, but its going to be quite a change! Luckily, he came home refreshed and happy to have had a full day of familiar work.
We, however, didn’t have a very smooth day around here. Laela would not nap. Normally she naps around 2:00 in the afternoon. Today, her and Dekker were sort of in the same place around the same time, so it seemed like a good opportunity to try and nap them together. Its only happened a few times, and we’re trying to make it more of a regular thing around here.
I put Laela in her crib first, and she cried and cried. I tucked Dekker in right away afterwards and told him she’d stop soon. His response was a mild “bu-bye.” So I left.
No judging! She wailed for probably over a half hour before I finally went up. She rarely cries herself to sleep, because she’s content and just babbles while she falls asleep. When she does cry, its big and ugly and loud and short. So I let her go for a good while, but to no avail. When I went up to get her, Dekker was out cold. I have never seen that side of him! I was fully expecting him to be upset and grumpy, and I assumed he’d try to get up out of bed when he saw me. But no. He was out. I picked Laela up and burped her for a while, and she eventually calmed down. I put her back down and left.
Another half hour, I gave up and went to get her. She was sweaty and angry and sooo relieved. I brought her downstairs to feed her a bit more, and to let her cool off from being so worked up. Just short of an hour later, I had put her down in the spare bedroom. And she cried and cried and cried. Sooo weird! But it was a very overtired cry, and I knew she was where she needed to be. She eventually fell asleep, only to have Brady and I wake her up maybe an hour and a half later in order to make sure she’d sleep at night.
Which is what we’re working on now! Wish us luck!!