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*Refuse go down for a nap until 1, but get hopelessly tired at 11
*Wake up hungry in the middle of the night, but stop eating before full, fooling Mama into putting child back in crib; repeat, keeping Mama marching back and forth to the nursery until two hours have gone by. Then wake up bright and early at the usual time!
*The eternal conundrum: can't bear to be left alone to fall asleep, but can't fall asleep when distracted by the presence of another person
Sigh. This whole taking care of a toddler all day gig is seriously kicking my ass this week. I think we all started out the week depleted because![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
longstrider worked last Saturday. We're coming to realize that two days off in the course of a week is not at all equal to a weekend off in terms of energy restoration. Then the extra long day Monday, a week of terrible sleep at night and the wretched attempts to convert to one nap during the day, and we're all getting pretty frazzled.
I honestly don't mind if K switches to one nap. Her morning nap is very short and if she took only one nap, she would probably be getting the same amount of sleep. But when she's curled up on my lap with glazed eyes at 11, only to be bouncing around her crib five minutes after I put her in it followed by a nap at 1 that clearly isn't long enough because she's tired and cranky until bedtime, it's hard not torend my clothing stab my eyes with forks get a bit frustrated. Is her crib mattress caffeinated?
Or it just occurred to me that maybe it's a developmental spurt. Duh. She's clearly on the edge of the big language explosion (three new words this week and a two-word phrase tonight. And she's just using language much more consistently), and the fact that she's trying to work her way down to one nap points to some sort of brain development. And bad sleep, crankiness and clinginess are all the hallmarks of a little brain in the process of figuring out something big.
Well, I guess there's nothing for it but to hunker down and wait it out. And cling to the fact that it's almost the weekend and I can sleep in.
*Wake up hungry in the middle of the night, but stop eating before full, fooling Mama into putting child back in crib; repeat, keeping Mama marching back and forth to the nursery until two hours have gone by. Then wake up bright and early at the usual time!
*The eternal conundrum: can't bear to be left alone to fall asleep, but can't fall asleep when distracted by the presence of another person
Sigh. This whole taking care of a toddler all day gig is seriously kicking my ass this week. I think we all started out the week depleted because
longstrider worked last Saturday. We're coming to realize that two days off in the course of a week is not at all equal to a weekend off in terms of energy restoration. Then the extra long day Monday, a week of terrible sleep at night and the wretched attempts to convert to one nap during the day, and we're all getting pretty frazzled. I honestly don't mind if K switches to one nap. Her morning nap is very short and if she took only one nap, she would probably be getting the same amount of sleep. But when she's curled up on my lap with glazed eyes at 11, only to be bouncing around her crib five minutes after I put her in it followed by a nap at 1 that clearly isn't long enough because she's tired and cranky until bedtime, it's hard not to
Or it just occurred to me that maybe it's a developmental spurt. Duh. She's clearly on the edge of the big language explosion (three new words this week and a two-word phrase tonight. And she's just using language much more consistently), and the fact that she's trying to work her way down to one nap points to some sort of brain development. And bad sleep, crankiness and clinginess are all the hallmarks of a little brain in the process of figuring out something big.
Well, I guess there's nothing for it but to hunker down and wait it out. And cling to the fact that it's almost the weekend and I can sleep in.
