Oh God. So. Not. A. Good. Night. We got back to the hotel, gave H a bottle and put him in bed and...the screaming started. And he just would not stop. At home, we would have let him cry himself to sleep - might've taken 10 mins, might've taken 20. But he would've done it. In a hotel, you can't really do that, as you don't know who is around you. So we got up. Brought him into bed with us. He wouldn't settle. Kept trying to crawl. Kept whinging when he couldn't. Kept sooking because he was Very Tired but just would not sleep. Rob took him downstairs and I snatched maybe an hour's sleep. Rob tried taking him for a drive, he fell asleep, but of course woke up the second Rob tried to put him in the portacot. Finally, Rob went to bed and I took him over to the other double bed and hopped in that. Put him on his tummy, put my hand on his back and just rocked him back and forth. Ignored him when he cried and if he tried to raise up on all 4s, I pushed him back down. Finally, finally at about 3am, he fell asleep. I dozed, but I couldn't really sleep well as he was right beside me and the last thing I wanted was to fall into a deep sleep, pull the covers up over me, or something, lol!
The alarm went off at 4:20. So not a good feeling. We all felt like utter crap having had so little sleep. I woke Hunter up and he screamed because he was so tired. Dressed him, we took our car to the place were leaving it at and got the security shuttle to the airport. Got there and I realised I had left one very crucial bag in the car containing my wallet, camera, phone etc. Fortunately I checked in via the self-checker and didn't have to make up some story why I didn't have photo ID. And face them potentially not letting me fly, lol. Waiting for the flight was hard, but he dozed in our arms for a lil while. And the flight itself was ok really. He was a bit fussy but he was entitled to be a hell of a lot more so. He laughed when we hit a tiny bit of turbulence, and the plane dipped. And then he fell asleep when it touched down. Strange child!
We all fell asleep on the car ride back to Port Macquarie...strangely enough! lol Hunter slept nearly the whole way which would do him the world of good and actually make him in a decent mood for meeting his baby cousin!
Hunter asleep at 4am... pity I had to wake the poor lil fella
Meeting Miss Charli Mae for the fist time!!
I think they liked each other!
