Today started and ended with a bang. For some unknown reason, Sadie decided "morning" started at 3:24 AM today. She started crying and upon checking on her, she requested a cookie. When she got a fat no as an answer, she asked for cake. Smart bugger. For the hour and a half following this, we tried everything to get her to go back to sleep. Promises of cookies later, playing different music, rocking, letting her in bed with us, rubbing her back, playing with her hair and a few threats. At 5:08 AM we officially gave up and let morning arrive. It doesn't take a genius to know that this set us up for quite a day.
We were lucky to squeeze in a two hour nap late morning. This was some saving grace. But the skipped nap the day before (flat out refusal!) and the early waking was a bad holiday combo.
Our Christmas Eve plans involved the Foster side of the family. We started off at Nana and Papas for dinner and gift exchange. Sadie beelined it to the tree, sorted out the presents and checked out baby Jesus. She nonchalant that the Son of God is in her hands.
We made our way over to Auntie Gerry's for some extended Foster family fun. Sadie's cousin (who is closest in age) Alia spun a Ring-Around-The-Rosy for some applause.
After eyeballing and taking an aim at Auntie Gerry's rum and coke (she claims she wanted the ice), Sadie took it upon herself to confiscate all of the pepperoni. This is particularly noteworthy because of our recent family decision to attempt vegetarianism. While it's tragic and disgusting what the animals go through, our main concern is really the quality of the meat available. There are so many hormones and unknown oddities forced on the animals - not to mention the low quality of food they are provided while alive. We don't completely object to meat, but we can't afford purchasing the all natural, grass fed meats. But I digress...
Back to the story of the pepperoni. It became sort of a joke that she was stealing all of the pepperoni to keep her protein levels up. She ate a few (I pick my battles), but after awhile she'd take one, disappear, then come for more. Turns out she was lining them up like soldiers. Alia followed suit. They were both running for handfuls of pepperoni. The finale: Sadie shoved each piece (about 10?) in her mouth at once...until I wrestled them out in fear that she's gag or have some serious heartburn that I'd have to contend with at 3:24AM.
The capper to the day was the complete meltdown at bedtime. Hysterics like I've never seen. Eyes rolling in the back of her head. Enough to make me a little scared. If Santa can give me one thing this Christmas, it's a decent night's sleep for this kid.
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