Sleep. Who Need's It?

Ok, so it's been a bit more than 10 days, but it's also been a bit more chaotic than I had ever hoped.  Here's an update on A^3:

Hawaii was AMAZING.  We had an incredible time on Kauai with my parents.  I promise I'll have pictures sometime next week.  I knew that the return was going to hard. We were leaving paradise, had a 6 hour time change to conquer, and A LOT of work to catch up on. We got back Sunday evening and unfortunately, the night started off with Adalyn having a fever just shy of 103.   Remember my 3 jobs?  - part time event manager for a million $ fundraiser in NYC, my photography business (has really taken off due to Facebook, by the way), and full time mommy to Adalyn?  Well, add to it caregiver of a poor little 10 month old with coxsackie virus!!!  That's right folks; it's better known  as Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease.  Little Miss A somehow contracted it and apparently it's been going around.  Two of the babies in my mom's group had it recently, although I haven't been able to see them in weeks.  I heard today that it is often contracted in pools, and well, Adalyn spent the vast majorty of last week splashing away in one.  She has blisters in and around her mouth and a few on her hand and legs.  Thankfully, they are almost all cleared up - which will mark the end of her quarantine from other kids.

Until today, she has been tough to handle. She was just so miserable.  Yesterday, she was refusing to eat dinner and just crying in her highchair.  I literally tried everything to calm on her down and nothing was working....except crazy dancing by mommy.  I turned on our favorite digital music channel, Contemporary Christian, and it just so happened that a version of this song was on.  I moonwalked, shopping carted, fan-kicked, and finally, after a good bout of the running man, got her to laugh.  It was a wonderful moment.

She is better, but both Andrew and I haven't slept more than 5 hours since last Friday night.  The combination of the time change and the sickness has Addy on an interrupted sleeping pattern.  Oh, did I forget to mention that we are moving on Saturday?!  I am functioning surprisingly well.  I mean, I'm up at almost midnight doing a blog post so I can check another thing off my to-do list. But, I feel a breakdown coming if I don't catch up soon.  We need prayers for sleep and a very productive Friday please!  I will leave you with one of my favorites shots from Hawaii.  I've had to stare at her happy face these last few days just to get through.