What a week?!?!?!

I would like to know who flipped the switch in my daughter to make her a crazy woman when it comes to sleeping. Whoever you are, you will PAY!! Usually when we put her down for a nap or bed she is quite and we never hear a peep. This is not what happened this week at ALL! This all started on Sunday. We did our usual night-time routine and she starts crying and screaming and we go back and forth with trying to calm her and get her to sleep. She finally is asleep at 11pm. What is up with that? Then she decides to wake up at 2 in the morning and start the scream fest again. I end up sleeping with her, not what I want to do. She doesn't lay still for anything, she kicks and hits and moves all over ALL the time.
Monday, she has a normal nap 12:30-3:30 just fine maybe it was a fluke. Night-time comes and she screams and cries again this time she climbs out of her crib. Ah, crap! She climbs out twice. She can just heel hook it out of the crib, I watched her do it, amazonian baby that she is. Now we have to figure out what to do with that at 10:30 at night. Should we keep her in the crib, take down the side rail, or sleep with her? I ended up rocking her to sleep which I haven't done in at least 6 months. I get her in her crib put the rail back up and we are in bed at 11:30.
Tuesday, normal nap, normal bed. What in the world, who are you child?
Wednesday the worst one. I had work on Thursday, she knew that I needed sleep too, but we didn't get much of it. She finally fell asleep after her scream fest at 11, we all went to bed. 3am she starts again. Mind you all, I am trying everything, ibuprofen, rocking, singing, letting her cry, giving her some milk. Toning her out doesn't work so well. At work I can tone out the babies crying if I really need to, Katelynn, I can't. She makes me pissed, makes me sad, I just want it to stop. So, I again fall asleep with her at 4 and my alarm goes off at 5:15. Ben tries to transfer her to bed but, that didn't work she is up and poor Aunt Sarah gets to watch the crazy woman all day. Sarah tried to get her to nap to no avail, which I expected since she would rather play with the boys than sleep. Ben gets her after work and at 5pm she finds a binky climbs into his lap and passes out. Crap! He calls me at work and says we have a problem. (That is never good to hear) he tells me that she passed out at 5 and it is now 5:30 I told him to wake her up eat dinner, and get her ready for bed and keep her up until at least 6:30. He does it, she is still awake when I get home at 8. We do the bed time thing and she starts crying. I need sleep so at 9 I go in and we sleep together for the night.
Ben and I are both so fed up we don't know what is going on with her, I made a Dr appt for Friday to see if there is anything medically wrong that I have missed. We go and of course she is healthy, we turn it into our 18 month appt and since that was scheduled for a week later. He said that kids go through dependence and independence phases all through their teens so this may be her dependence phase and that we need to let her self soothe. So, we go in with another game plan. We will put her in her crib, let her cry for however long. We go for an hour and a half. 10 pm she climbs out of the crib. I go get her and we decide that we'll take off the side rail of the crib and let her roam in her room, with the light on and see what she does. I didn't hear her crying by 10:45 so I went outside her window and peeked in, since we don't have the video monitor (I want one) I wasn't sure where she would be, I thought she would be in front of the door. She wasn't she was face planted on the futon. I go in and turn off the light and let her sleep there.
Today, she started crying with her nap, which we will be keeping, at just 2 hours. She still needs it, I still need it. I rocked her and she was out in 10 min. Slid her into her crib. She didn't move in those 2 hours. For bedtime decided that we would let her roam from the beginning and see what she does. We did the bedtime thing and I laid her down on the futon and hoped for anything better. She was asleep within 20 minutes. The funny thing is, I thought that she would immediately get up from the futon and cry at the door. She didn't. We peeked again and she was laying right where I left her on the futon. If she keeps this up for a week we will be taking down the crib and looking for a twin bed. This is a whole lot sooner than I expected her to be moving to a twin bed.
Sorry this is so long and without pictures too. I hoped you liked our bedtime story.

Nursery

Saturday night Ben started to not feel good and by Sunday morning he still wasn't feeling good, which I didn't know he still wasn't feeling good until I arrived home from the Sunday morning meeting that I now have every Sunday at 7am because of my new calling. I got back home at 8:30 to Katelynn still in PJ's and no breakfast, but Ben thought I would just leave her home with him. I didn't do that, I let him get better without her yelling and screaming all around him. So, we charged through breakfast, and got us both out the door at 9am. We arrive and sit in the back where Katelynn is not contained AT ALL and is freakin' excited that she can run around so much. We pretty much stay in the foyer for most of Sacrament Meeting.
I had mentally made the decision that this was going to be Katelynn's first Sunday in nursery. I could not manage her and Primary at the same time. There would be no way that could happen. I had previously wanted to introduce her to nursery with me and Ben throughout October, but that wasn't going to happen now. I pretty much walked in to the Nursery room desperate that they take her a couple weeks early. They had no problem with that and I was then off and running, trying to run a Primary Program. HAHA!
I still don't know what I am doing yet. I am hoping that once we have a few regular Sunday's without program practice and HALLOWEEN! (I am worried that the kids are going to be wired from the Trunk or treat the night before or they could be so tired from the night before don't know) Whatever happens it will be okay but having the program on Halloween wasn't my idea.
Back to Katelynn, she did AWESOME in nursery. They brought her to me once for a diaper change and that was it. She didn't throw any fits about being left there without me. I knew that she would have a good time and that she would just fit right in. Now we will have to see if she will make it again this Sunday since she now has a runny nose (She didn't get sick at nursery) and runny noses aren't allowed in nursery. I just hope that we have a better night tonight than last night. No one slept well, even the dogs were up barking at 1am.

New Calling

At church I have been an adviser and a counselor in the Young Women's program for the past 3 and a half years. When we moved in February I thought that I would get a new calling pretty quick but it didn't happen, 4 months later I was put in Young Women's again. I have heard the saying that when you have perfected your calling you will be moved to something else. I guess after three months they decided it was time for another change, it also doesn't help that people move out and leave big vacancies that have to be filled. Sunday I was sustained as the Primary President. The past two presidents have moved out of the ward. The previous president was in the calling for two months when they moved a couple weeks ago. Ben is wondering if that means that we are going to be moving soon too...I don't think so, but you never know.
They are 40 kids in the Primary and a good twenty are active. The Primary program is in two weeks and so I was thrown into this calling running. For the past week I have been all over lds.org and sugardoodle.net looking for ideas and such to help me find out all that I can about what is expected of me and what needs to be done.
I haven't been in primary since I was in primary. So this will be fun and new for me. I hope things turn out okay. Let me know if you have any ideas or tid-bits that I should know. That's what is going on around here!

ooooOOOOoooo!

A week or so ago we noticed that our love seat was broken. It was leaning to one side and was feeling a little unsafe to sit on. So, we aren't the most motivated when we have to fix something and we are unsure of what it will all entail. We decided that we would look into fixing it on Saturday. We had family over for most of the day and we had dinner with Beth and Kevin at our house so we just hadn't gotten to it. Then we joked with Beth and Kevin that they broke the love seat when they sat on it, but telling Kevin that something was broken only made him want to check it out and see why it was broken. After dinner the couch was flipped over and the problem figured out.
Our couches were put together using only staples and a few brackets. So, it was to be easily fixed with screws and angle brackets. The hilarious part of this was Katelynn of course. She was Kevin's right hand woman. She would get herself in any position she could to see what Kevin was doing. Even if that meant blocking his view with her head so she could see the screw being driven in with the screw gun. Then, when the screw was in she would say, "ooOOoo!" I wasn't quick enough to get a picture of them working on the couch together but it was pretty darn cute with Katelynn making her sound effects.
So, it is now safe to sit in our love seat without the fear of it breaking even more. Thanks Kevin!