As I'm preparing to head upstairs to go to bed for my second super late night in a row (yay for sociology discussions and essay exams!) I truly hope Piper is going to behave better tonight.
Yah, she still isn't sleeping through the night, and the past three nights have been hell. 'Co-sleeping half the night because she cries when you try lowering her into her crib' hell. Co-sleeping is one of those things that I have never been a fan of. She's almost 18 months and while she's sleeping peacefully and 99.9% likely to not get tangled up in our blankets it absolutely stresses me out. I think I sleep in five minute intervals jolting awake each time with that horrible "I'm late!!!!!" feeling. Heart racing, just the whole nine yards.
LAST NIGHT
So, Piper wakes up just before 1a. It's an easy fix this time around. I was awake writing an ethics paper for my weird online intro to nursing class so I just went into her room, popped her paci back in, and continued on my way. Thirty minutes later, she starts crying again. Since I am wide awake I decide to let her cry it out. I noted that I would go in once Brendon started fidgeting (HAHAHAHAA) or when 10 minutes had lapsed.
Holy hell. The kid was still going strong at minute 8, so I went in. She was laying down flat on her mattress not even attempting to look or feel around for her paci. So infuriating. Just.. why! WHY! When she realized I was fumbling around looking around for the paci - doing her job - she started to get up at which point I picked her up because regardless of how upset I was she had a completely wet tear face and I thought I would cuddle her. Hahahaha, what an amateur move. Of course she wouldn't want me to but her back in her crib after that.
I swear I was rocking her for 4 hours. In all actuality I don't know how much time had passed since I didn't check the time for fear of "you have approximately 4 good hours of sleep left". After the 7 hours of rocking she was still wide awake and threatened wailing screams each time I walked near her crib so I threw in the towel and brought her back to bed with me. I guess I'd rather keep waking up thanks to mini-heart attacks than getting up out of bed to walk across the hall to her room.
But then they do things like this just before you send them off to bed:
So, I don't know how to make the video work. Help?
They're lucky they're cute.
Leia
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