A Scary Night…

So I have to tell you about our exciting night last night…

First a little background info – since Abby was born we have used a white noise CD (vacuum cleaner cd as we call it) to help her sleep at night. We put it on repeat and it plays all night. It has been a great tool and worked wonderfully! I would highly recommend it to others, especially if you are dealing with colic. Anyway …
Last night Nathan decided that it was time to start weaning Abby off the CD. So the plan was to play it only once and not put it on repeat. I told him that I preferred to try this plan out on a night where I didn’t have to go to work the next morning, but he said tonight’s the night and he would be the one to get up with her if she did in fact wake up. So we went ahead with the plan. Abby went to sleep around 9:30 and the CD turned off around 10:30. We went to bed about 11 pm. Well to my disappointment I realized that I had become dependent on the white noise CD. I could NOT fall asleep! The house was just too quiet … I was hearing the dogs moving around, Abby moves a lot in her sleep and makes noises and I heard everything through the monitor in our room. It was driving me crazy! Around midnight I was still awake and frustrated, so I decided to go check on her because I kept hearing noises coming from her room. And then I came back and turned the monitor off in our room – she is just too noisy of a sleeper! Well then I had to pee, so I go to the bathroom – all the while Nathan is still asleep in bed. Sidebar: I didn’t put my glasses on when I got up, so I can’t see as well and it was pitch dark in our house.
While in the bathroom I hear a noise again from her room. So I finish up and head back into her room. Well just as I make my way into her room a MAN is coming out of her room!!! (It was Nathan) I screamed, gasped and my stomach fell, I started backing up down the hallway with my hand over my mouth in shock! I realize at this point that this “MAN” is wearing familiar boxers and saying to me “Lindsey, Lindsey it’s me!” UHHHH – he scared me to death! He grabbed me and I started punching him in the arm saying “what are you doing up, you scared me to death” My heart was pounding in my chest, I almost started crying … it was just a total shock because I thought he was still in bed! It is a wonder we didn’t wake up Abby. Anyway, we have been laughing about it today – how Nathan tried to kill me in the night, but oh my goodness he scared me bad. It took us both forever to go back to sleep because our adrenaline was racing, so we ended up turning the vacuum CD back on!
Basically, the moral of the story is Abby doesn’t need the CD, but we do!