So, we managed to only scar one of our children this Halloween. That should score us a few extra parenting points, right? Alexandra was more than a little intimidated by the scary masks that were showing up at our door but we convinced her they weren't "bad" guys and were actually "good" guys in disguise. I'll let you know how that affects her little psyche in the next few years.
Josephine on the other hand seemed to struggle with the scary masks a little more. She was visibly frightened by one of the trick-or-treaters and later, around 3:00 in the morning, was awake and screaming from what I am sure was a nightmare. The biggest problem with Jo's screams are she could literally wake the dead and so, instead of letting it go like I normally would, I went to try and console her. The biggest problem here is not the mixed signals I'm sending by going to her on occasion when she cries at night but rather that I'm not her daddy. So, being that I am not the daddy the little stinker decided she was having none of that and wiggled out of my lap, making a beeline through the dark towards Marcus.
I know some of you might be wondering how I can't seem to keep a 1 year old in my lap but, let's be honest, at 3:00 in the morning I have very little fight in me and when Josephine sets her mind to something she doesn't give up and will throw all 23 pounds of her body in ways that are Hulk-like. Needless to say all 3 of us were essentially awake for the rest of the night as we went from Josephine trying to get comfortable in our bed to me trying to get Josephine to go back to sleep in her own bed. Trying to share a bed with a baby is just pure insanity and the only way it might be conceivable is if the entire room were a mattress.
Anyway, this is all to say that Josephine will probably live the rest of her life in constant fear of Halloween and...hold everything. 24 hours later and Alexandra just woke up crying and screaming. I don't think even Freud could handle this one. Marcus and Lauren = 0, Parenting = 2.
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