It's 2am, Stop Jumping on My Head!

Sleeping while traveling with kids is always a challenge, but for some reason with Kacy, it's an even bigger challenge! Once Adilyn actually started sleeping through the night, she was pretty easy to travel with. Now, she's a breeze - she will sleep on the floor, in a bed, on an air mattress, whatever. Kacy on the other hand has always had issues. At home, she's great! You put her in her crib, she is out in a matter of minutes, and very rarely wakes up again until morning. Traveling is another story! I don't know if it's the different environment, the pack 'n play, or sleeping in the same room as us - but she has a really hard time sleeping when we are not at home! Of course, that means that we have a really hard time sleeping, too. :(
I was hoping that when we went up to Fort Worth this weekend, things would go smoothly. That way, I would feel more comfortable when we leave them in a couple weeks for our vacation. Unfortunately, that did not happen! Saturday night, we were all exhausted. I put Kacy down at 8:30ish, and she went out like a light! I had high hopes of getting a great night's sleep, but around 11:30 the crying began. I tried to hold her, rock her, pat her...nothing worked! She kept pushing me away, but then she cried when I put her down. I put her in the bed with us, and she squirmed around and kicked us. I tried to hold her on my chest, and she crawled around on my whole body. By 1:00am, I was so done! I took her in the living room, put a blanket and pillows on the ground and laid down. I was thinking that maybe she just couldn't get comfortable in the bed, so I thought I would give her room to roll around. Well, at that point, she woke completely up! She was clapping, climbing on the furniture, and jumping all over me. She seemed to think it was really funny when she would jump and sit on my head. Nothing about this situation was perfect, but that was probably the most annoying! Around 3:30am, she finally crashed and snuggled into my armpit, all the while my arm was completely falling asleep and my back was cramping up. But dare I move her at this point?!? After about 10 minutes, I figured she was in a pretty deep sleep, so I picked her up. No signs of waking...as I walked down the hall I was trying to decide if I should put her back in the pack 'n play. Instincts kicked in, and said, "No way!" So, I slowly tiptoed into the room, I sank into bed as quietly and motionless as I could...still no signs of waking. Ahhh....relief. I still had a 25 pounder on my chest, but at least I was in a bed. We slept peacefully until 7am, when she woke up again. I guess she was ready for the day to start because she woke up, climbed out of bed, and tried to open the bedroom door. Of course, at that point, she also woke up Adilyn...I knew the battle had been lost. Fortunately, I had the great idea to make Cory get up with them, so at least I got an extra 2 hours of sleep. What a night, a long sleepless night!