Agnes isn’t sleeping through the night just yet, so I’m catching broken hours of sleep when I can. This morning she was up at midnight and right around 5:30 a.m. Usually it is just Agnes and I downstairs during the night and early hours, but this morning I had to put my mommy multi-tasking skills to the test.

Right at 6:00 a.m. when Agnes was blissfully eating her bottle, I could hear Dylan crying and running through the hallway upstairs. I knew something was up, and poor Dylan had an evil bloody nose. I stopped feeding Agnes, and put her in her papasan chair, and went upstairs to get Dylan. He was very upset, which made the bleeding even worse.

I got him downstairs and on the couch, I then picked up Agnes to finish her feeding. So I’ve got one hand pinching Dylan’s nose, so the bleeding will stop, and the other hand I’ve got Agnes eating from her bottle again. Then I hear Thade….

Thade had noticed the blood on the floor from Dylan’s nose, and he started screaming, “someone’s been attacked!!!!!” Not having a free hand at the moment, I holler up “it’s just Dylan’s icky nose, I’ll be up to get you in a minute.” Then Thade said “why does Dylan have to get a bloody nose at 3:00 a.m., I want to sleep!” It was 6:00 a.m., but that one cracked me up.

It started off to be one of those mornings, and I’ve got a whole bunch of extra chores added to the list before 7:00 a.m. I now have beds to strip, and hardwood floors to clean up. Maybe the early risers will crash out by mid-afternoon. It definitely looks like it is going to be a multiple pot of coffee day for this mommy.