Post Call

when dan's on call, naturally, its hard on the whole family. he and i are both worn out and exhausted by the time he gets home. and both girls, especially madison, want enough attention from him, the minute he walks in the door, to make up for the 36 hours he was just gone. but we've figured out a little system that seems to work pretty well. we have lunch ready when dad gets home and eat together as a family {dan can barely keep his eyes open at this point}. after lunch is nap time and madison gets to take a nap with her dad, on our bed. to say she loves it, would be a huge understatement. i don't think you've ever seen a kid so excited to go to sleep. ever.

one of these post call days the two of them were laying in bed and dan kept saying,

"madison, please hold still."
"madison, you have to stop moving."
"please stop kicking me."
"you can share my pillow with me but you have to not wiggle."
"madison, i am so tired, please don't."

a few times i could tell dan and just fallen asleep only to be woken up by madison again. this went on for awhile and finally i went in to see what was going on. dan had fallen back asleep, beyond exhausted at this point and i asked madison what was wrong.

she had been moving and grunting and making frustrated noises because she was trying to arrange her pillow perfectly in the right spot.

on top of dan's back.

this poor little girl wanted to be so close to her tired, sleeping daddy that she was trying to use him as a pillow. i helped her fix her pillow, tucked her in with the blanket, and off to sleep she went.