One long night

Saturday night was our first experience with a very upset little baby. Vienna spent most of the day wide awake, never took any of her usual catnaps. She was very fussy in the evening until we finally got her to sleep around midnight. Then at 3:30 in the morning she woke up crying. I tried the usual, changing her, feeding her, rocking in the glider, walking around the house patting her butt, putting her in the stroller and wheeling her around the house, swaying from side to side, bouncing up and down, nothing was working. As her cries turned into screams I knew we were in trouble. Chad somehow managed to sleep through this, unless he was pretending. I walked over to him, sat her on his chest and said, time to get up, we need to go for a ride. He got up in a stupor, and within minutes we were out the door with the baby and Stella. As we drove away Vienna started to doze off. She was alseep in minutes but we didn't want to chance it and decided to take our time and drive a little further. We stopped at 7-11 for a cold drink and proceeded on. Finally when we got home around 4:30 am, we all headed back into the house. We left Vienna in her carseat sleeping, parked in the stroller at the foot of the bed. The next day mommy and daddy were a little tired, to say the least. In the afternoon when we were waiting for Nini and Gramps to come over, I found Chad and Vienna snoozing in the glider. I just love this photo! I just hope we never have a night like that again, or not for awhile at least. Who knows what our neighbors will think of us leaving at all hours of the night!