There is not enough sleep to go around these days. Surprisingly enough, it's not Alice that's giving us the problem. Elsie has been having a rough time sleeping, and it's taking it's toll on me and Alan. She has been having a hard time falling asleep, and so she keeps getting up and coming out of her room. Our new apartment has french door handles, so our regular child proof doorknob covers don't work. She hasn't been getting to sleep until 8:30, 9, or even 9:30 some nights. To make matters worse, she's been waking up earlier and earlier. It started out getting up at 6am, but yesterday she woke up at 4am and wouldn't go back to sleep. This morning she was up at 3:30am and it took her an hour or so to get back to bed. She might have slept in a little more this morning, but around 6am Alice (my champion sleeper) woke up crying because her little leg got caught in the crib bars. Poor kid. There was no going back to sleep after that.Elsie is driving me nuts with this, and I don't know how to fix it. Is her nap too late in the day and so she's not tired at bed time? Is it time to give up her nap altogether? Do we just need another lock on the door so she can't come out and she'll give up and go to sleep? I still find it amazing that my 3 months old sleeps so much better than my 2 year old...
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I bet those sleep issues will resolve soon as Elsie settles more comfortably into her new life in Wisconsin. Meanwhile...the pictures are darling. :) (Go to bed as soon as they do...)
Oh man. NOT FUN. Whenever Olivia's having sleep issues it's usually because she's not getting enough sleep. It always seems weird to try and get her to sleep MORE since her naps and stuff are weird, but usually she falls asleep and takes more naps when I try and a lot of times she'll kind of fix the problem herself.
And then, of course, other times we just let her talk to herself and whine/cry in her bed for an hour for a couple nights in a row before things go back to normal.
Having your kid in a bed she can get out of is great fun, no? Haha. We'll be joining you in this endeavor once we move. Please have all the answers for me by then. :)
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