Extremely long night last night. The poor man is coming down with some sort of sickness – fever of just over 100 degrees, runny nose, and you could tell that he was tired much earlier in the night than he usually is. He fell asleep relatively quickly, but woke up every 30-60 minutes after that. He would then proceed to cry very loudly for the next 15 minutes, refusing to be soothed. We are still co-sleeping with him, which is both nice in situations like this (we don’t have to get out of bed to run to his room) and tough (both parents are awake and can’t take shifts, although I tried my best to fall back asleep when Betsy was holding him).

Betsy believes this is some sort of cold/flu, and thinks his crying sounds sick. I’m wondering if this is a large group of teeth all coming in at once, as it’s been a while since his last tooth, teething can cause runny noses, and his cries sound pained to me. Whatever it is, it’s not a lot of fun.

So, I’m at work with about 3 hours total sleep from last night, and in the middle of one of the busiest periods I’ve ever had at this job. Betsy had a few more hours to be in bed this morning, but she doesn’t fall back asleep as easily as I do, so I suspect she probably got less total sleep, and she has a far more physically demanding day ahead of her. It’s going to be a long day for both of us.