Aaaaaaahh. Can you hear it? The sound of the dryer running? The faint buzz of the ceiling fans? The clicking of my computer keys? It's mostly silent here, and it's only 9:09pm. This is a big change from the past few nights, when, at 10pm you could hear Tim stomping up the stairs to tell the girls to go to sleep already.
We are trying to get the girls to sleep in the same room again. It is a nightmare. We did this in Tucson eons ago, and quickly abandoned the effort as our sanity wore thin. Now, however, Claire is desperate to sleep in a toddler bed, and since we will need her room for the baby next year anyway, we are beginning the process now. Which is probably a good idea on our parts, as it will likely take until mid-April for the two of them to actually fall asleep at a reasonable hour, stay in their room all night, and also not pile all of their toys into the princess castle and have a sleepover in there.
The first couple of nights weren't too bad. They never made it past about 10pm, when we would remove a wailing Claire from Kate's room and put her in her crib. But the past two days have been complete misery. The girls have been uber crabby from lack of sleep, and the tantrums. The tantrums! So, much to the dismay of Claire, who seems to always get the punishment (because really, what is the difference to Kate whether Claire sleeps in the toddler bed or the crib?), we didn't even attempt the co-sleeping arrangement. If they are in better moods tomorrow, and I don't feel like I need to search the want-ads at 9am for ANY JOB IN THE UNIVERSE that will get me out of the house, well then we can try the sleep over again.
Do you have any advice on this matter? Thoughts? Anything? If so, puleeeez tell me.
3 comments:
We have our own issues with bedtimes, so for what it's worth - I've heard of people staggering bedtimes so one is asleep before the other goes to bed. That never worked for us. Bribery. Sometimes we make bedtime earlier when they were up late the night before. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it just prolongs the agony. We've also pulled all the toys out of the room at bedtime (usually stuffed animals that are deeply involved in performances from 8 til 10 pm).
I don't have anything on the bedtime stuff, but I LOVe the new background!!
I have a poorly developed theory that all changes involving sleeping arrangements (sharing a room, removing pacifiers, moving from cribs to beds, no diapers at night) take about a month of adjustment before things go back to (relative) normal-ness. The problem is that one wants to kill herself before that month is up.
Also, it has helped us (though not solved all our problems) to take all toys/lotions!/really everything other than beds and dressers out of the room.
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