Sleep

We have been sleeping more the past two nights. For the two weeks previously it has been horrible. The solution we found was to let Janna sleep on the futon. She decides at bedtime where to sleep. She has choosen the futon lately. It is low enough and she can get in and out. I have pillows on the floor in case too. In the mornings she crys for me as usual but just waits at the door for me to come get her. Janna has only woken once in the middle of night and it only took a minute for her to go back to sleep. She wiggles a lot at first but then dozes off. Some night she wants to rock and cuddle first but other nights she doesn't want to be touched.

My little girl is growing up. We will be looking for a toddler bed soon.

A long night

Janna has never been a great sleeper. Usually she wakes up but goes right back to sleep after a few minutes. This was not the case last night. Isaac had gotten up that morning very early to finish a paper so he was tired already and went to bed before me. I cleaned the house up a little bit and decided to read. I went to bed a little before 11pm. I wish I had gone to bed when Isaac did. At 11:30 Janna wakes up screaming loudly. At 1am Isaac gets up to help because he can no longer sleep due to her screaming every time I set her down or even move wrong. At that point we try Tylenol thinking teeth and then gas drops a couple hours later after hearing some rumbling. We tried a video which usually works and she drifts off to sleep. The video and leaving her room is always a last resort but after two hours and she is awake awake we were exhausted. She kept going to the refrigerator but didn't want the milk or water, so after a couple fits over that and pulling my hair out we decided what harm could juice do we are all awake including Molly:) So she drank the juice and then wanted the pudding at the table on mom's lap. Doing anything to keep the screaming down we did that. After a couple bits, it is now 2am, she starts tugging at her clothes saying "off" so I take them off. Janna then makes a bee line to the bathroom say "Baaa" which means bath. That was it. I was not giving a her a bath at 2 am no matter how much she liked them or wanted one. She threw her red headed fit for about 15 minutes and then calmed down. Around 3:30am I finally got her to sleep and went to bed myself. Up at 6:30 to get ready for work and Janna up at 7:30 and neither one of us rested.

It was a long night, and I still love her with my whole heart. I hoping last night was a fluke and there is nothing wrong. There are no other signs of ear infection or sickness just a strong willed child. I think she gets it from her Dad:)

Though very tired I still smile thinking of the determination of my little monster who wanted a bath a 2am.