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...of no sleep

It's 5:30am. Let me do a quick recap of our day today:

8:00am - Abram, Quinn and I wake up
9:00am - Selah wakes up
10:00am - leave for Dubai with Quinn's dad and his suitcase
11:30-7:30 - Do lots of walking around malls in Dubai, looking at stuff, no one sleeping even one wink of a nap, changing blowout poopy diapers with freshly purchased diapers because I have my child's regular pooping figured out, but did not plan for anything out of the ordinary, heave myself into car with frequent, strong, and regular Braxton Hicks contractions wondering if we will be taking a trip to the hospital after the airport. 
7:30-8:30 - Stuck in Dubai traffic, Abram falls asleep, Selah squealing and crying because she is so over tired, mcontractions slowing down. 
8:30 - Drop Quinn's dad off at airport 3.5 hours early for his flight (poor guy).
8:30-10:30 - Drive home.
9:00 - Selah finally falls asleep.  
10:30 - Seamlessly transfer sleeping kids into bed.
11:00 - Fall asleep. 
1:30 - Woken up by Selah talking (that's 4.5 hours of sleep for her and 3 for me - in case you're counting)
2:30 - Quinn brings her into our room to discipline her for not being quiet like she knows she needs to be, only to discover another blowout diaper. Change her, put her back down. Now I definitely am so awake I can't easily fall back to sleep.
3:30 - Selah punished for more noise. 
3:45 - Selah falls asleep. 
3:45-5:30 - I lay in bed trying to fall asleep, but Simon is spazzing out in my abdomen and my brain is spazzing out in my head and I just can't. 
5:30 - I decide to write a blog post and listen to the sounds of at least one of our three newm interns who arrived this week from all over the West up and about and hope that they will start to adjust to their new time zone quickly. 
5:50 - Decide to give sleep another go (knowing I would only get another 2 hours or so) just as Quinn's alarm starts to go off for the morning (meaning it will be going on an off for at least the next hour). 

Looks like tomorrow is going to be a looong day. 

Here are aome picks from our outing in Dubai today, in case you didn't seem them on Facebook. 



Hope you slept/sleep better than we did tonight!

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