3:30 is the new nap hour
|18.Oct.2007
Pre-K is really tough, exhausting work.
All that coloring, singing, recessing, playdough making, activity center working, ring-around-the-roseying, it is completely MIND CONSUMING and BACK BREAKING.
And so, with much regularity Kenny comes home, has his snack (he’s nothing if not “a li’l man with a schedule”) and crashes. It could be in his room all wrapped up in his comforter and hidden under pillows so that everyone in the family is out looking for him, screaming up and down the street, with his daddy driving around in the car, and mother searching the pond, everyone terrified that he’s been kidnapped and stolen away forever until the oldest child notices the pillow rising and falling and screams, “I FOUND HIM!” *phew* Sorry ’bout that…got carried away
OR
it could be nestled into his favorite place on the couch with the entire world going on around him.
I wish I could still sleep like that.
Oh wait – I might could IF he was sleeping at night.
Whatever is in the air must have teensy barbed hairs lacing its body, because as it gets whisked up his nose and swallowed down his throat it really turns on the itch. Kenny coughs the night away while I pray against another hospital visit, all the while rubbing Vick’s on every surface I can, rapping his chest like a drum, helping him suck in some good ol’ albuterol, and hoisting him up to a half sitting position over and over and over.
One day I will sleep through the night again.
Until that day I think I’ll consider taking 3:30 naps with him.
17 Comments
MMM
Love Bug is always worn out after ballet…for the rest of the day!
Poor things. I think I’ll get to sleep through the night again someday, too.
bethany actually
Oh, my dear, my heart aches for you and Kenny. You have a full plate without staying up half the night, watching over your baby boy. Praying for you!
mamalang
I”m not a doctor, but has he been diagnosed with Asthma? And does he have controller meds? Both my youngest have asthma, and it was a several year battle, but since they were put on their regime, it’s made a tremendous difference in their health…and their sleep habits. Just something to consider. Sleep is one of the most important things in my life, so I can sympathize!
OMSH
MMM – And oh what a blessed day that will be, no?
bethany actually – Thank you for your prayers!
mamalang – Kenny doesn’t have full out asthma. When he was 2 he was diagnosed with Reactive Airway Disease, which is just another way of saying, “there’s one trillion things that act like asthma, but aren’t so we’ll bunch them all up under the whole of it”.
He hasn’t had to have a puff of albuterol or flovent in I don’t know how long, but whatever is in the air is drawing up his allergies something awful.
short, chortled coughs – if you have an asthmatic child, you know them all too well.
If we stay on top of the allergies, which usually Claritin works, we don’t have any of these types of symptoms. But again…whatever is in the air is buggin’ the tar out of him.
Mrs. Wilson
Oh my goodness! Poor little guy! Makes my allergies look like nothin!
chocolatechic
Poor little guy.
Yep…nappage is the only way to go!!!
Angella
Graham always falls asleep in the car on the way home from Kindergarten. SO sweet.
That shot of Kenny though? Priceless.
Praying that the air stops bugging him :)
c
Such a sweet picture…
As always, thanks for the laugh
;)
whimsy
I am WAY familiar with RAD. (have it myself)
albutrol does nothing for me. Except make my heart beat fast.
Have you ever tried Histussin HC? Magic stuff I tell ya.
It has codeine so it makes for great sleeping. Our ped prescribes it for our whole family.
whimsy
I should mention that we don’t take it all the time, just during those times when nothing seems to beat the allergies.
We’re not codeine junkies or anything…
Shelly
Yes, It’s me again. You know the one who’s hip was joined to yours in the sixth grade…
Just today I read an email about a remedy for a night-time cough. Sounds crazy, but you cover your feet with Vicks Vapor Rub and put socks on. Supposedly, the cough goes away in
minutes. Maybe it’s worth a shot.
Please tell your precious parents hello for me…
OMSH
Mrs. Wilson – I would love to know what it is that “gets” him, but that would involve a series of tests that I’m not putting him through. He’s had enough of docs in his short lifetime. Well, not as much as some children, of course, but more than I’d like for him.
chocolatechic – It was like a napfest around 3:00-ish today. Droppin’ like flies we were!
Angella – I always hate it when they fall asleep in their carseats. It takes a hard sleep to make it from the carseat to the bed without waking.
c – Aww, thank you. :) And you’re welcome.
whimsy – We ran out of Histussin HC a couple of months ago. And you are RIGHT – there is NOTHING that works like that stuff works. I might just give our doc a ring, b/c we’re definitely up for a refill on that stuff
shelly – Weeeee! So glad you’re here. Did you read #23 on my Never Say Never list? Lovin’ hearing from you again!
BOSSY
Bossy’s kids used to get so exhausted by preschool that it made them Mean as Snakes. So if they napped it was just for a few minutes, on a rock, in the hot son.
Liz C
Go for co-napping. I am so looking forward to having a newborn, so I get to nap a lot. I LOVE naps.
Poor little guy–that whole “not breathing at night” thing is exhausting for all. I’m asthmatic, but watching my two oldest cope with bronchitis for the last three weeks, I’ve realized I’d much rather it be ME with the cough and wheeze, than them. ME, I can cope with. Them, it just breaks my heart.
Just Beachy
Poor little guy. I love naps in the afternoon, but brother, six, thinks sleeping is a sin.
Brother was plagued with recurrent bouts of bronchitis and they were considering classifying him with asthma, but a few years ago when I found out I had an oat intolerance I took it out of the house (he ate almost as much as I did.) After we removed the oats he has not had another bout with bronchitis or asthma (two years).
Have you considered maybe a food sensitivity or intolerance?
KYouell
The Biscuit gets sleepy during speech therapy. At 10am. That’s the only day of the week he’s tired at that time. It is hard work being a working kid.
Prayers.
whimsy
My sister was telling me a horrible story about getting her HC refilled and it tasted like regular cough medicine!!!
Say it ain’t so! Say it ain’t so!