growth spurt?

this week has just been about getting back into the swing of things - which is why there haven't been any posts. i guess the theme of this week is sleep. not that matt or i feel any more rested because we have been so busy, but the kids sure have been sleeping. the question is how do they know to only sleep in on days that matt and i can't? it is like they have a sixth sense. madelyn didn't sleep past 7am the whole time i was off, but monday morning i had to wake her up at a quarter to 8am so that she wouldn't be late for school.

mason has consistently been sleeping through the night and napping 4-6 hours a day in two naps. (if you look closely at the picture of him, you can see his two little bottom teeth.) but the real surprise has been madelyn. she slept late on monday and then on tuesday night she went to her room to suck her thumb around 5pm and didn't come back out. i went in to check on her and she was asleep so i let her sleep until 6:30 when i woke her up for dinner. she didn't want to eat though; she just asked for a drink of water and to go back to bed. i think she was awake for 20 minutes before going down for the night a little before 7pm and didn't wake up until 7am. this is totally unheard of for her!

when i picked her up from school on wednesday and she was still in a deep sleep, her teacher asked if she might be going through a growth spurt. of course! that must be it. and she was super, super cranky when i woke her up to go home too. like screaming/crying in the parking lot, not wearing her coat (by choice), and not getting in the car kind of cranky. thankfully she got that out of her system by the evening and was pleasant when daddy ventured out with both kids by himself for the first time last night. i had a meeting at the church so he took the kids to do the grocery shopping before the snow fell today.

the picture of madelyn is from after school when she had finally gotten herself out of her post-nap funk. she is wearing the kid-sized moby wrap that we gave her for christmas. once i got friend all settled into it she asked to go to the park. i had to explain that it was a little too cold and snowy/icy for a walk to the park. she settled for just running around the house wearing him.

matt and i are hoping that this sleeping surge lasts until saturday. love.