I recently went on a trip to the US. I was gone for 12 days. I had to leave for the airport 10pm, well after the girls' bedtime. However, they would not go to sleep. Especially Vivian. She was insane with depression. I kissed her goodnight and goodbye, but she was hyperventilating and could not stop crying.
"Buh-hut (gasp) Mah (gasp) meeee (gasp), I (gasp) don't (gasp) want (gasp) you (gasp) to (gasp) gooooo!" she wailed.
"I'll be gone just a few days and besides, you are going to have so much fun with Daddy. He'll cook yummy food for you, he'll play lacrosse with you, you can do archery with him. . . " I tried to console her.
"Buh-hut (gasp) I (gasp) only (gasp) like (gasp) YOU (gasp) taking (gasp) care (gasp) of (gasp) uuusss!" she wailed on.
" You are very very tired and when you get tired, you get upset. Now I want you to lay here and calm down, take some deep breaths and close your eyes. You need your sleep because you have school tomorrow," I explained.
She asked me to lay with her. So I relented. For about 5 minutes. But the minute I tried to leave, the hyperventilating started all over again. I realized that me staying in the bed with her or not was not going to make any difference. I had to go.
She begged for one last kiss and hug. I left the room to the sound of her sobbing.
My husband said he was not looking forward to the morning. When she was a baby, and we had similar instances of her not going to sleep, we would let her cry it out. However, when she woke up, she would begin crying all over again, as if she picked up where she left off!
However, when the morning came, she got up and was cheerful as usual.
I have now been back for almost one week. Her right eye tooth came out
at school this week when she bit a Lemon Drop candy her dad asked me to bring back from the US. She got to keep her tooth in a small treasure box they give out at the school nurse. At 6 years old, she has now lost 7 teeth and is one tooth ahead of her sister who is getting ready to turn 9. They have both lost the bottom 4 and top front teeth, but now Vivian has lost an eye tooth.
The tooth fairy brought her pastels, a Magic School Bus book about Fall Leaves and a golden dollar coin.
Every day that I have been back, Vivian tells me how much she loves me and how happy she is that I am back. She tells me she loves having me for a mommy. She is so expressive of her love for me.
Tonight, we were doing water colors and she asked if she could listen to her CD of Bible stories.
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