Lesson Never Learned

Why oh Why oh Why can I not get this one lesson in my head?

There is just no reason to worry overmuch or try to push the kids into or out of a phase. Why can't I learn it? Well obviously because one doesn't know until one has hindsight that it was a phase and not some socially unacceptable problem that will plague us and our children for the rest of our LIVES.

Abby has been getting out of bed since Jack was born. Scared or just Lonely. We got her a loft bed. She decided after the first day we had the heat on since she got the loft bed, that the problem with the loft bed was that it was way too hot up there. On her own gumption, armed with her own theory, she set herself up on some blankets on the floor in front of her radio (she plays audio books to go to sleep to) one night last week. AND... she hasn't gotten up in the middle of the night since. She tells me up in the loft bed she's very wriggly and there on the floor she's much more stiller. There is a mattress on the ground under the loft bed I hope to coax her onto sometime soon. But if not, I don't mind - it's ALL fine with me.

Jack is having a rough time and though I tend to have a bleeding heart for him, Miss Pat thinks it has more to do with being two than with the new baby - though certainly the two things feed each other. Anyway, he's been having a hard time sleeping too. And today I decided to try his big boy bed. So far, so good. At least it will be more comfortable to hang out with him if he has trouble tonight.

So much of parenting it seems, seems to be about what we as parents can handle. We just can't make a change or form a plan until we're at that stage of being ready to make a change or form a plan. And there's no rushing it. Sense a theme?

Unless by rushing it you mean get some good long quality sleep BEFORE you're at the end of your rope.