Shift Work

So Dom has been on Night shift this month. It sucked. He worked 6pm-8am everynight. After showering in the morning he would crawl into bed. Some mornings Francesca would be awake and she would spend a few minutes with him before he passed out. But most mornings her and I would still be sleeping. When she would wake up she would do her normal morning cuddling and whalering. She would flop back and forth and some mornings she would realize that it was Dom laying beside her and she would get so excited. This morning when she realized it she sat up and started banging on him. I don't want her to wake him up so this is my cue to take her out and start our day.
We were gone the first week or so Dom was on this shift so when we had to adjust to his schedule. After our first day back Dom had to start wearing ear plugs. She is just too loud to have someone trying to sleep in the room right next to us. He gets Friday and Saturday nights off. So last weekend we headed down to Crystal's. Our plan was to leave as soon as he came home on Friday morning. He was expecting to sleep on the drive down there, I was more realistic and assumed he would be babysitting during the drive. After packing the car and getting everyone loaded up we were on our way. Dom was in the back with his ear plugs and eye mask. When we hit the interstate I looked back and could see Francesca banging on his head that he had leaned in her direction. She was entertaining herself by playing with a new toy that made noise whenever you hit a particular button. Somehow she learned very quickly where that button was. All I could hear was that toy playing song after song after noise. I had no idea how he was sleeping through this but he did.
Around Stateville she had been very good for about an hour and started to stir. She hadn't had her cereal so I stopped at some small gas station that had an even smaller restaraunt next door. So her and I went into Britney's Bar B Q and took a break. We were the only customers at that time, we beat the lunch crowd and it was after breakfast. I ordered a sandwich to go and sat there and tried to feed her. She ate ok, but was more interested in entertaining the waitresses. She is such a ham. After 45 mins or so I put her back in the car and headed south. She started to fuss when we got closer to Charlotte. I tried waking Dom up to help her calm down and not allow her to get too worked up, but that was to no avail. He was out to the world. I managed to get her a wagon wheel to quiet her down. It only took a couple of minutes before she was sleeping as well. She slept great. About an hour and a half later she woke up. We were about 15 minutes from Crystal's, she didn't make a peep. She started playing with her toys and sat really quitely until we arrive. Dom managed to get pretty good sleep on the trip. If you ask him he didn't think so, but he also didn't realize that we stopped and he was sleeping in the car by himself for 45mins. This schedule has been hard on him and us. Me and little girl miss him and can't wait for a more normal schedule.