Sleeping Standing Up

Yesterday Arielle did not take more than a half hour nap and boy was she tired by the end of the day. So much so that when I opened her bedroom door a couple hours after she went to sleep, I found her standing up with her feet on the floor and her head on her bed. She was actually sleeping like this, no joke! It was a little freightening at first and somewhat disturbing but I was really wishing that I could have taken a picture. I thought about calling Zak up to witness it but then decided to quickly move her into the correct sleeping position before all the blood rushed down to her ankles. When I moved her into her bed she just looked around for a moment and went right back to sleep.

We have tried to speculate on why she fell asleep like this. One theory is that she got out of bed to get something and just fell asleep before she could get back in to lie down. Another theory is that she fell out of bed and landed in this position. We think this could have happened because we had just rearranged her room that day to where the bed wasn't up agains the wall and we know she liked to sleep in the crack between the wall and the bed. Whatever the reason is, I still can't believe that she fell asleep standing up!

The Cream Corn Incident

Friday night we were watching tv when I thought I heard footsteps above me-this would be unusual because Arielle does not get out of bed once we close her door. As I raced to the steps I saw her standing there at the top of them and heard her start to cry, "I threw up in bed". Poor thing got it all over bed and herself but despite the odor and the mess she seemed very upbeat and somewhat happy, probably to spend more time with Mommy and Daddy as we cleaned her up and changed the bed linens. Arielle proceeded to throw up two more times that night but at least this time we had a trash can in her bedroom and I was there. I actually slept with her all night long for I think the first time ever.

You're probably wondering why she threw up suddenly out of the blue when she had not been sick at all that day. Well that is where the story starts. Zak cooked dinner and decided to open a can of corn but actually it was cream corn. He reminded me of the time he was fifteen and had a bad reaction to cream corn...I guess he too threw up from eating it. I brushed it off and said Arielle will probably like it because she loves regular corn so just cook it anyway. We all ate the cream corn that night and Arielle LOVED it! She had three servings of it that is how much she loved it.

So this just begs the question, did Arielle inherit an allergy to cream corn from her father? Zak didn't throw up that night but he did have bad stomach pains and everything that comes with that. Nothing bad happened to me though, I felt fine all night. And besides being tired from loosing a few hours of sleep the night before, Arielle felt perfectly fine the next day. This just had to be some sort of weird coinicidence, right? Who knows but we won't be serving cream corn to her anytime soon.