I made a mistake.
Ben says I never like to admit when I’m wrong, so here we go, I was wrong. When we switched Mallory to her big girl bed several months ago I thought it would be an easier transition to just sit with her on our bed until she fell asleep and then transport her into her bed for the remainder of the night.
That actually didn’t work to bad for a while but then she would wake up and want in our bed at some point in the night, typically 2:30-5 am, so I’d just sling her in between us and we’d all go back to sleep. No big deal.
Before we left on vacation the 2:30 – 5:00 wake up and come to our bed became 10:30 pm. Not good.
Vacation didn’t really help matters any because she slept in the bed with us the whole time because I knew she wouldn’t sleep off in one of the other rooms by herself in an unknown condo.
Now that we’ve been home she just wanted to sleep with us all the time again. I knew there was little point in fighting it until Ben’s parents left from their stay over Labor Day because she’d be back to sleeping in our room.
I even so much as brought her crib mattress and pushed it right up next to our bed to try to get her to sleep on it. Didn’t really like that AT ALL.
Ben’s parents left and I was too tired Monday night to even attempt the battle that would ensue so we put it off until last night.
About 10 till 9 we started. Did the whole tuck in, turn on Violet, give kisses, turn on her sound/light machine thing, etc. and we sat on our bed to wait.
She popped up, came in our room. Back to the bed, dwindled down what we did each time, kisses, Violet, etc. Screaming and crying every time we plopped her back in her bed. Ben participated and put her back in bed several times too. I can't even count how many times she got out of bed.
She even started running from the door in our bedroom straight to Tucker's bed to lay in it with him (it's in our room too.) Again back to bed. After about 30 minutes of this I just said screw it, and I put her in bed and I laid down with her.
She of course immediately stopped crying, I did turn my back to her (but that's the way I normally sleep when she's in our bed so that wasn't really a "sign" to her) and she snuggled up next to my back and went right to sleep. Ug.
So did I, I think it was about 10:45 when I woke up and went back to bed. So we slept just the two of us in our bed until sometime in the night when she was yelling for momma, so I just went back in there, crawled back in her bed and slept there again until around 5:30 or so and came back to our bed. Then she was up at 6:30.
So by no means perfect but she did technically sleep in her bed all night, which is an improvement, so now I guess I have to continue to work on weaning her of me sleeping with her.
Joy joy. We never had any problems until we moved her from the crib to her big bed a couple months ago.
Guess we will see what tonight brings.
On another note, we’ve had a pretty eventful holiday weekend starting with Thursday.
Aunt Brenda and Uncle Jim were in for a couple days and we all went out to eat with them on Thursday night in Clarksville. Ben’s parents came over Friday evening and after dinner we headed back to mom and dad’s to visit with Aunt Brenda and Uncle Jim some more.
This was the last weekend that the pool at the Country Club was to be open and I was really hoping for at least 1 good day at the pool but Hurricane Isaac had other ideas. Dreary, cloudy and raining pretty much all weekend. We needed the rain but I could have at least given me 4 hours on Saturday for the pool!
Saturday Mallory, Ben’s mom and I went to Opry Mills so I could go dress shopping for the upcoming Blue Moon Ball. I hadn’t been to Opry Mills since it reopened after the flooding several years ago. Had some good new stores and I had some luck with a dress. Mallory overall wasn’t too bad, a couple fits as it got close to nap time, but overall she did pretty well.
We headed back to Elkton so we could go back to Mom and Dad’s again for Susan (sister) birthday dinner. Another excuse for mom to make homemade ice cream : )
Sunday was church and I got to squeeze a 5 mile run in during nap time and then we started preparing for Bud to fry chicken for everyone. So Memaw, Mom, Dad, Susan and Nick were at our house Sunday night for Chicken.
Needless to say we got a lot of “all the family” time in this weekend!
Monday continued to be dreary too. Ben and his dad tried to tackle our washing machine drain issue we were having which turned into dad helping too and became literally an all day affair. And it still didn’t fix the primary problem, but what they did needed to be done as well, so it wasn’t in vain, but we “think” we’ve finally solved the problem. Good grief!
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