It won't be like this for long

We've had a rough couple of weeks here. I'm not really sure what the deal is. It could be teeth. It could be a growth spurt. It could be solid food. It could me some new milestone that I'm unaware of. All that I know is that Heidi has been off. She's been crabby all day. She's always been on the starved-for-attention side, but this last week even when you're playing with her and holding her and making funny faces and signing silly songs she's still crabby! And the sleep. Or lack of, I guess. I put the "sleeps through the night" sticker on her calendar one week when she was like 3 months old and slept until 6 am like 5 nights in a row. What a mistake that was. She stopped sleeping through pretty quickly and started waking up one time a night, usually sometime between 2 and 4. But she'd take her bottle and go back to sleep. But then last weekend she started getting up 2 and 3 times a night. I know it's not terrible, but I'm so greedy about my sleep and I just do not function on less than 7 or 8 hours. Then this weekend she started waking up at 3 or 4 in the morning and refusing to go back to sleep. Laying in her crib and talking and shrieking (not crying or upset, but still loud so that we couldn't sleep). Yesterday at work I was a complete Zombie. Last night was better, back to up only one time, so we'll see. Until this stage passes I will just keep humming this song to myself and know that it won't be like this for long...

He didn't have to wake up
He'd been up all night
Layin' there in bed listen'n
To his newborn baby cry
He makes a pot of coffee
He splashes water on his face
His wife gives him a kiss and says
It's gonna be OK

It won't be like this for long
One day soon we'll look back laugh'n
At the week we brought her home
This phase is gonna fly by
So baby just hold on
It won't be like this for long

Four years later about four thirty
She's crawling in there bed
And when he drops her off at preschool
She's clinging to his leg
The teacher peels her off of him
He says what can I do
She says now don't you worry
This will only last a week or two

It won't be like this for long
One day soon we'll drop her off
And she won't even know your gone
This phase is gonna fly by
If you can just hold on
It won't be like this for long

One day soon she'll be a teenager
And at times he'll think she hates him
Then he'll walk her down the aisle
And he'll raise her veil
But right now she up and cry'n
And the truth is that he don't mind
As he kisses her good night
And she says her prayers
He lays down there beside her
Till her eyes are finally closed
And just watch'n her it breaks his heart
Cause he already knows

It won't be like this for long
One day soon that little girl is gonna be
All grown up and gone
Yeah this phase is gonna fly by
He's try'n to hold on
It wont be like this for long
It wont be like this for long
Darius Rucker