A while back I wrote about the murphey's law of parenting more than one kid. I discussed sleep how it's rare for everyone to sleep well in the night. Well, we are really experiencing that now and I'm about at my cracking point. Days and nights are starting to blur.
A snapshot of our week (in no order, because I can't keep track of who is sleeping well which night, only that Den and I are not).
Sunday night: Ed goes down easy, Josie doesn't want to fall asleep. Den and I try to get ready for the week, he falls asleep no problem. I can't fall asleep till almost 1. 1:10am Josie wakes up. She's back to sleep in 15 minutes. 2am, Ed wakes screaming -- both Den and I go in to keep him from waking his sister. He wants to get in our bed. We compromise and put his crib mattress on the floor of his room. Fall asleep by 3. 4:30 Josie wants to eat. Fall asleep at 4:45. 5:30 Eddie wakes again, ready for the day, not wanting to go back to sleep. Meanwhile I had trouble sleeping all night--separate from the kids.
Monday: Both kids in bed by 8, we try to go to bed not long after, but somehow it's 11pm. Josie wakes at 2, just as I drift off to sleep, Eddie wakes up screaming. Doesn't want the crib mattress out of the bed this time, but wants milk and water. Wind down by 3--at some point--maybe during another waking, he gets Den to put socks on his feet. 4:30--I wake up and try and move Josie to her crib from the adult bed set up in her room--she wakes up and has trouble going back to sleep. 6:30, Eddie wakes up. Unbeknowest to me, Den is not able to sleep this night, tossing and turning.
Tuesday: Josie sleeps till 4am. It's Ed who wakes 10 minutes after I fall alseep and then wakes again. This is the part that is really bothering us--Ed had been such a great sleeper the last several months. We're really wondering what is going on. We wonder if he is ready to move into a toddler or regular bed. We wonder if he is having nightmares or even night terrors. Or maybe he is feeling like he's not getting enough attention from us. Whatever it is, he is sleeping like crap. Josie is usually doing okay, given her age, but then Den and I are taking turns with nights that we can't sleep.
I'm about ready to go sleep in a hotel for the night. I'd send Dennis to do that, but he doesn't sleep well in hotels. Oh and did I mention he's leaving for Japan on Saturday for a week. I am going to be an absolute zombie when he gets back. You see, he has been letting me sleep in while he gets up for the day with Eddie, so I usually get an extra 30 min. to an hour. We've got to figure out how to get Eddie to sleep--I've already started consulting my usual books and listserves.
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