The Bewitching Hour After Hour After Hour

Wow, what a Halloween! Our friends Daniel and Krissee had an extra pumpkin costume that they let Carter have. We thought it was all too cute that we would have our own little pumpkin patch. So, I get Carter all ready to go over to the Day's house to have a little Halloween fun. I decided to pack a bag for myself because we were planning to have a few drinks and the Day's were gracious enough to say..."just stay here". That way we can be responsible and no one has to drive home. Perfect, right! Well, here are a few pics of our cute pumpkins.

Carter in his glow in the dark skeleton onesie that Auntie Holly sent!

My sweet little pumpkin!


The whole family.

Our very own little pumpkin patch

Well, then the fun really started! We get to the Day's and take some pictures and then have a little pizza and then it's time to get kids ready for bed. So, I get Carter changed into his PJ's and get him to go down in the pack and play that the Day's put in my room. Perfect, Carter normally sleeps until about 6:30 am so I'm thinking now mom can have a few drinks with the girls. That's not exactly what happened. About 30 mins or so after he goes down, he's crying....so not normal. I rock him a little and put him back to bed. A little bit later, he's crying again. So, after a little tummy medicine to help with his gas....I rock him and put him back to bed. Still not happening because a little bit later he's crying again. It's now about 1:30 and I decide to feed him because maybe he's hungry and with a full tummy he'll be able to sleep. Not so much. I called Scott and he will be on his way back in town from a gig shortly so I ask him to come pick us up. It's about 2:15 now and Krissee decided to go to bed and I decided to put Carter in his carseat and he goes to sleep, whew! I decided to take a little nap on the couch until Scott arrives.

It's about 3:15 and Scott gets there to pick us up. We get home and sweet Scott says why don't you go to bed, I'll try to get Carter down. Then the scream fest started.....he screamed bloody murder for about an hour and half. There was no consoling him. Since I couldn't sleep (go figure), I got up to take over and let Scott go to bed. Well, after I got Carter he quit crying and was sound asleep after about 10 minutes of rocking. I was thinking there's no way this is going to last, but I put him in his crib and went to bed. I then had to wake him up at about 8:30 am because there was absolutely NO WAY I was going to let him sleep all day so we could have a repeat performance tonight.

I still have no idea what was wrong....maybe it's his teeth coming in or something else, who knows! But he seems to be doing fine today and I bet I will have one tired little boy tonight. I can honestly say, I hope this is one tradition that doesn't get started!