sleep...who needs it?

oh my gosh....have i ever felt this bad in my LIFE?! here we are in total comfort with Mom's wonderful homey house all around us and food galore and a completly clear schedule (no getting to karate on time, no friends to meet for lunch, no groceries to buy). I've got nothing but time to sleep while eager grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins occupy the kids. But there's just one little problem and her name is Sloane. ah! She did so great on the plane that she's making up for it now by teething hard, being jet-lagged and deciding to only want mommy now that there's all these people around who want to hold her all the time all at once. poor babe. i'm considering formula feeding more and more each minute. because i've still got this cold, my back hurts, all 5 of us are on totally different schedules so that just as i nod off at 3am Jackson will wake up ravenous and billie will sleep through the night like she was never affected by a time change, happy and playful all day. Then Jackson needs a nap from 7am until 2pm. Bill sleeps all morning. Sloane sleeps never. It's awful. if mom wasn't taking such good care of me i'd whine even more.
but this morning we poked and prodded the kids awake with no breakfast to head directly to the fourth of july Minonk parade where candy was hurled off the tractors by the bucket full. As if the kids needed more sugar than Nannou and Boppy shower them with every day!!! It was so much fun and everything i love about America. Flags everywhere, horses and shriners and Billie and Jackson filling up giant bags with junky candy like gluttens in training. The fire truck even hosed us down as it passed by. SO wonderful and adorable. This is what Minonk is all about- you should have seen all the folks lining the streets of this small town waiting for the big parade. It makes me want to live here. Sloane slept through the whole thing of course, choosing to keep her routine of only sleeping during daylight hours over the excitment of sirens and clowns.
she's seriously the most unscheduled baby- i let her decide when to do everything and now it seems she's set her own schedule just to be impossible. humph.
stay tuned for further complaints in days to come. no, maybe things will get better...they have to, don't they? She can't stay awake from midnight to 7am every night~!