This morning Amanda woke up around her usual time of 6:30a. I went into her room to grab her and bring her back to bed with us so we could sleep for at least another 30 minutes, but realized her diaper was super wet and I needed to change it first. As I was putting the new diaper on she kept saying "Elmo, Elmo". I've mentioned before that when she wants something to drink it sounds like Elmo, so I told her I'd grab her cup in a second. But then she said "seat" and I figured out she needed to go to the bathroom.
So I brought her into the bathroom but the Elmo seat wasn't there. Charlie had taken it downstairs the night before and forgotten to bring it back up. I told her that the Elmo seat wasn't there but she could sit on her other seat. Of course she freaked out and started to cry. I grabbed her quickly and took her down to the Elmo potty but it was too late. She woke up the older kids.
The set off a whole host of events. First, we had rain last night and a quick power outage so all the clocks were blinking. Since Andy couldn't tell what time it was he got up to ask. Sarah started crying because Andy left the room and she is afraid of being in the room by herself. Yes, even when it's not dark. When Andy found me I told him it was only 6:30 and he should go back to sleep but I think he ignored me. I'm not sure exactly what he did because I had to dump Amanda in bed with Charlie to go get Sarah and see if I could get her to stop crying. She ended up joining us in bed as well, but kept asking me to move over because Charlie's pillow was too hard and mine was softer - I'm not really sure what the lame excuse was but I was teetering on the edge and she had about two feet of room for her tiny body. I finally gave up, all mad because I missed that last 30 minutes of sleep, and went to take a shower before our day of non-stop appointments and crazy driving from here to there began.
Oh, and Amanda never peed on that stupid Elmo seat.
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