My Happy Girl

This morning I woke up late for the first time since Teagan started school. When I woke up I looked at the clock jumped out of bed imagining I would find Ian asleep on the couch, Teagan asleep in his bed and Jade watching TV. No they were all gone. I opened the door quickly thinking I would see them at least pull out of the drive way. They had gotten up, gotten dressed, breakfast, backpack, the works without me. Wow I'm humbled. Not only did they do it without me but I think they were out the door a bit earlier. As I've said in previous posts...Ian is amazing.

Being they got going this morning without me I didn't witness Jade's early morning behavior. When they got home we thought surely something was wrong with her. She was screaming, crying, throwing herself on the ground. Ian said she woke up that way. I called the doctor thinking she must have some sort of infection. Not really bothering with the whole fever part of the equation but her sinuses had gotten worse and she had done a little ear tugging yesterday. So I get ready and Ian goes to work. Jade crys and complains the rest of the morning and finally we get in the car to go to the appointment. Before we can get off our street she is asleep.

Wow! Okay maybe she is not sick. I start thinking about the fact that she has been away from home and likely just out of her routine. Why didn't I think of that? I have no clue where my cell phone is and I had some papers that Ian might need so I went to his parents to use the phone. I get Jade out of the car and she does not wake up. I cancel the doctor's appointment and call Ian. She still doesn't wake up. I suggest we go to work with him. Why not? I don't want to be alone and she will sleep great in the car anyway. So I hold her in my arms while we wait and she still doesn't wake up. We put her in the car again. Still asleep.

When she finally wakes up she just looks really confused for a long time. Later Jade gets a little tired of driving fields. When we are all done we take her home to run around a bit before we go get brother. The picture above was snapped right as we were leaving to get get Teagan. She had just got done giving her daddy a big kiss but the camera was a bit slow and got this. Still great! Once we got Teagan she was completely happy. So our poor little girl was just worn out and missing her brother. Lately it seems she is unhappy a lot. Between, teething, colds and what I think is her sensitivity to all that has happened she is just not herself. I'm glad we can catch her happy moments like we have here. It makes me realise there are far more happy moments than we think.