Mama Don't Sleep

We had a rough night last night. I lost count of how many times Lily woke up. Or she could have just been awake all night and I just wasn't conscious enough to know the difference. Anyway, we ended up just putting her in the bed with us because as long as she can press her face against my arm or something she'll sleep, which means that I don't really sleep because I have to constantly make sure she's positioned ok. Crazy kid.

Anyway, maybe she couldn't sleep because of all of yesterday's excitement. Yesterday afternoon I had to run to the post office and WalMart (ugh) and was gone for less than an hour, maybe 45 minutes. When I walked in the door I heard water running in the basement. I dropped Peanut (still in her carseat) on the kitchen floor and ran down to check it out thinking "oh no, the water heater finally gave out" but no, it wasn't the water heater. It was a pipe that had burst and water was shooting out from the basement ceiling (not in the carpeted part but back near the "tool bench" area) and there was maybe 6 inches of water that had flooded that whole area of the basement. So I'm panicking trying to find some valve or something to shut the water off to make this stop, all while hearing the baby crying in her carseat upstairs in the kitchen. I was on the phone with Benjamin trying to find out how I could shut this off and he had me turn the water off above the pump. I do this, and the pump is doing this crazy on-and-off thing and I start to smell something burning. I called Josh and he was on his way over. Peanut is still crying upstairs. :( I'm so stressed I feel like I could just vomit or something. I turn the water back on to keep the pump motor from burning out. I call my mom who answers "I'm in class I'll call you back!" so I start yelling into the phone that a pipe burst how can I shut the water off w/out killing the pump, etc. Fortunately she hadn't hung up on me yet and told me to hit the breaker. I found the breaker and the water and pump went silent. Peanut did not. So I go get the baby, while calling Josh again, who I think had had to get Megan up from her nap because they showed up a few minutes later and poor Meg was totally disoriented and barefoot with messy hair. :) Anyway, Josh saved the day by cleaning up all the water (the sump pump was also dead so he had to use a shop vac and suck up a million tanks full of water, poor guy). He went to Home Depot and got some parts and fixed the pipe. At some point Benjamin came home, and then (Lisa, Josh, the girls, us) we all ate some Thai food.

Anyway, here's Lily's new sound, I think I'll call it the frog bird: