Still Fighting Jet Lag

Chloe, and consequently Mom, have not been getting much night-time sleep. This is quite an adjustment for her and we are having some long miserable nights. There was little to no sleep Monday and Tuesday evening. After Tuesday's visit to the Pediatrician, he advised me to give her more Benadryl at bedtime, just for a few nights, to help Chloe get to sleep.

Wednesday night (after a full evening of play with the Nelson's grand-daughter Nicole) Chloe went to sleep at the appropriate bedtime. She cried for only a minute and then nodded off. I learned that if I leave the room, she will stop crying much sooner. If I stay there to comfort her, she will cry all night (like the previous nights). She awoke a couple of hours later and then again after another hour. Each time, she cried and if I stayed in the room, she would continue to cry. If I left, she would stop and go back to sleep within 2 minutes. It looked like we were going to have a decent night until our home alarm system decided to go off at 2 AM. It went off twice and sent Chloe into a hysterical cry. She was wide awake and it took us several minutes to figure out how to disconnect the alarm system. Somehow, the Panic alarms were being triggered as the alarm had not been engaged otherwise. We also came home to find some electrical problems. Several of our lights don't work. The ones that were on, we cannot turn off, and some of the ones that are off, we cannot turn on. Time for an electrician.

We finally got her back to sleep after over an hour of crying. We will try to post some pictures soon.