Wednesday, December 10, 2008
At wits end... and tired!
Avery is not a good sleeper. From the time she was born she has been horrible as far as sleep goes. I can count on my hand the times she has slept through the night, and 18 months later I'm still waiting for it to happen. It wouldn't be so bad if it was once a night but its some times up to 6. This presents a problem becaues we only have 2 bedrooms. The girls share a room and like last night one wakes up then they wake up the other. Then we have to fight with them till 3AM to get them back to bed! Then they are up again at their regular time of 7. Which then leads to me having no patience, being exhausted and too irritared and grumpy to deal with 2 tired and grumpy toddlers. We have tried everything I can think of. We have a set bedtime and routine and always have. We have tried giving baths before bed and warm milk. We have music scientifically made to create alpha brain waves. We have tried leaving lights on and having Jinger sleep in our room (on the floor)to let Avery cry it out. Which works ok but now Jinger expects to sleep in our room. I have talked to the doctor and he says it sound like we are doing everything we can and that some kids just don't sleep well and to just keep working through it and eventually she will figure it out. (which doesn't help me one bit) I don't know what else to do.....grrrr!!
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
MIA
Hi, Everyone
Its been a while since I have posted! Things have been super busy around here. I have been working abut 30-35 hours a week and I had a bunch of final papers I had to finish up, one of which was a group project which I hate. It take 3 times the amout of work and time!
In the middle of all this Miss Jinger decided that she didn't want to wear diapers anymore so we did potty training! She really must have been ready cuz I told her if she wanted to wear "big girl panties" she needed to only go in the potty and bam, she was pretty much trained! We had a few accidents mostly when we went other places, but other than that its been nice to have her done with diapers. The hardest part was the first week when she had to go every 10 min, just a bit. We would spend about 15 min in the bathroom going, washing and cheering only to do it all over again 10 min later. So I spent about 95% of my days in the bathroom! It's kind of sad cuz she is growing up so fast. but I'm glad that it's done!
Its been a while since I have posted! Things have been super busy around here. I have been working abut 30-35 hours a week and I had a bunch of final papers I had to finish up, one of which was a group project which I hate. It take 3 times the amout of work and time!
In the middle of all this Miss Jinger decided that she didn't want to wear diapers anymore so we did potty training! She really must have been ready cuz I told her if she wanted to wear "big girl panties" she needed to only go in the potty and bam, she was pretty much trained! We had a few accidents mostly when we went other places, but other than that its been nice to have her done with diapers. The hardest part was the first week when she had to go every 10 min, just a bit. We would spend about 15 min in the bathroom going, washing and cheering only to do it all over again 10 min later. So I spent about 95% of my days in the bathroom! It's kind of sad cuz she is growing up so fast. but I'm glad that it's done!
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