Sneak Preview

In the middle of the night last night, I got a sneak peak of how it’s going to go down in my house once Baby B arrives in our lives. Our little Brittany, Baylee, has been having some #2 issues. She and Maggey tend to go to bed with me around 9:30pm while Greg and Chase stay up until 11:30 or so. Well, Tuesday night, Baylee woke me up before Greg had come to bed acting very erratically – pacing, panting, etc. I assumed she wanted out of the bedroom for a drink, so I opened the door and let her out. The next day, Greg told me that she needed to go potty and that she was having the afore-mentioned #2 issues. Again, last night, this time after we were both in bed, she woke us up around 1:30 with the same behavior. I asked Greg, “Does she need to go out?” His response was a decisive “no.” Then he put her in the kennel and went right back to sleep.

Falling asleep again was not so easy for me, partly because once I was awake, I went ahead and made my nightly visit to the bathroom, but also because Baylee’s panting and general state of distress continued off and on for another hour. Finally, at 2:30am, I determined that she legitimately did need to go out. So I got up and took her, while Greg slept undisturbed in the bed. Baylee was quite relieved to relieve herself, and yes, she desperately needed to go. Greg is either really talented at faking sleep, was sleeping with his good ear nestled tightly against pillow, or is carefully executing his plan for me to be the one extracting myself from the coziness of the warm bed to care for Baby B in January. In this battle of wills, I predict that I will lose every time. I’m just too darn sympathetic, not to mention protective on my newly steam cleaned carpets!