for some reason, when lily finished potty training, she also stopped sleeping through the night. at first it was a couple times a week. now it's a regular occurrence. a few nights she has gotten up at 1 and decided it was time to be up for the day. the nice part for me is that she is attached at the hip to her dad. so in the middle of the night the only person she wants is him. larry of course is wishing that they weren't quite so bonded ;) last night was especially bad because we stayed up late, then lily came in a hour after we went to bed. it took about two hours or so to get her settled back in; which just means that she was asleep in our bed - bad parenting i know. we are getting soft in our old age. then a couple hours after that brooke gets up because she had a bad dream and won't go back to her bed. so larry moves one sleeping girl out only to be replaced by another one. so needless to say today i'm feeling like i haven't slept at all. i might need to get a caffeine iv just to make it through the day. and i am seriously at a loss as to how to solve the lily problem. believe it or not we didn't really have this problem with the rest of our kids. we don't want her to wake the rest of the kids with a screaming fit in the middle of the night so we appease her which just makes it worse but what to do!!! it's very frustrating and exhausting.
the two l's one afternoon after a long night together 
2 comments:
That picture is SO sweet. I have no advice for you, except to buy some red bull. Also, prayer works. that is one tough situation, Tam. I hope she starts seeping for you very soon!
I so relate to this post...and have had the same experience numerous times where we have to put one sleeping child back in to their bed to make room for another. :-) Hopefully it's just a phase and it will end soon! We usually have to have one HORRIBLE night of weining (sp?) them back in to sleeping in their own beds and then it's good for a few months before it starts over again. Ahh the joys of parenting. :-)
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