Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Alarm Needed?

The other night was not the most restful nights sleep. Jaiden has been having problems with sleeping ever since I got home from YW camp. She cries and gets upset and one night to the point of throwing-up (yes regressing to when she was a year old). She tries to sleep in our room but we know if we give in once it will never end. We give her the option to sleep in her brothers room in the bunk beds. She still wasn't happy and was coming in 5-7 times a night.

Finally one night I heard her walking around the house and then she came in our room. I could tell the wasn't fully awake and took her back to bed. Then Madison woke up crying about every hour for really no reason - she also wasn't fully awake. During one of my breaks from Madison I was laying in bed and heard screaming. I jumped up into the hall waiting for the scream to happen again to figure out which bedroom to rush into. The scream came again and it was Carter. I ran in to find him with blood every where -another bloody nose. I needed some wipes and towels so I headed to the kitchen. I was walking past the entry way and noticed the front door wide open (3 am). I was frozen.

Thoughts ran through my mind - should I go to the kitchen? What if someone is in there? Jason won't hear anything? I immediately decided I needed to wake Jason and tell him I was heading into the kitchen and not sure if it was safe. I turned around and headed to my room. I said, "Jason" and no movement, again , "Jason" nothing. Finally I walked over to the bed and shook him. He finally came awake and I told him what was going on but that he needed to start waking up so he wouldn't pass out when he got out of bed (has happened before when he gets woken up in the night and jumps out of bed).

I headed to the kitchen, shut the front door, and went to help Carter. As I was helping Carter I noticed Jason sitting in the living room. When Carter was under control I went and talked to Jason. Sure enough he had started to feel light headed and headed for a couch before passing out. We talked for a minute and then he went through the house checking to make sure everything was OK. Everything seemed fine but we know that the door was locked before going to bed. The only thing we could figure was Jaiden must have opened it when she was walking around the house at 1am. She has been known to sleep walk but never open a door. It is disconcerting to know the door was wide open for 2 hours. I think we will be getting an alarm. FUN TIMES!!!

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