Tuesday was a great day. I put Amelia down Monday night about 11:00, and she slept until 4:30 on Tuesday morning. She went back to sleep easily after nursing and slept until 7:45. Ryan had two closings in the morning and then came home early; we were so excited to have our friends, the Sepulvedas, stop by for a visit too on their way through town as they headed to Birmingham. We had a nice evening spending time as a family and put Lily to bed without any problems. We had great hopes for the evening of finishing up some last minute Christmas details, giving Amelia a bath, etc.
Then, 8:30 came around. I was drying my hair when I see in the mirror that Ryan is holding Lily as they walk into our room. Lily is covered in vomit...gross. Ryan had heard Lily crying and saw on the monitor she had gotten out of bed, so he quickly put Amelia down and went to check on Lily. This made Amelia mad, so she was screaming from her room as we tried to calm Lily down. I was in charge of cleaning her up while Ryan went to clean up her room. We remembered from last time that the doctor said to keep her up for at least 30 minutes after she throws up to make sure she's okay, so we started watching Mickey Mouse and Little Einsteins to keep her awake and alert. Unfortunately, she threw up several more times as we watched, so we had to keep resetting our limit. It was terribly sad to see her face as she was getting sick. She was so scared, and there was nothing we could do to help. The worst part was she kept saying "water please" but we couldn't give that to her because she was throwing up the liquid we had given her too. A friend suggested today that we give her small ice chips if this happens again which I thought was a good suggestion. Finally, just after midnight, we were able to put her back down to bed for the night. She was back in our room at 7:25 this morning though, so today (Christmas Eve) has been a little rough as she is simply exhausted. She even put herself down for a nap at 11:15 this morning which is nearly 2 hours before her normal nap time. Thankfully though, she seems fine, so we think it must have just been something she ate.
The hardest part during all of this was trying to keep Amelia settled too. She has a very difficult time getting to sleep before about 11 each night unless someone is holding her. Anytime one of us would put her down, she would start screaming while we were trying to help Lily. Really quite frustrating. She finally fell asleep at about 10:30 (and slept until 5:45 this morning!) but it was not fun running between the two kids for several hours.
We know we are so blessed to have two healthy children and everyone has nights like this every so often, but that was not very comforting last night! Here's hoping we have a better night tonight.
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