In the third hour of “bed is bad! I’m gonna SCREAM if you leave the room!” I gave up and took Niko back into the living room. Nesko came home at quarter to eleven and successfully wrangled him down. I’d already been clubbed in the face twice with hard plastic objects and seen one melt down too many.
A lot of people I know have raised/are raising their kids without a set schedule, and that works for them. A set schedule works really, really well for us. Niko’s off his rocker with these recent sleep pattern disruptions, and I’m short tempered as well. Alarm’s set, and we’re waking him up early tomorrow (well. his usual wake up time.) and getting him down for naps.
This no-sleeping bullshit needs to end.
Final drink/snack, tooth brushing, book reading, special lullabye, sleep. That’s how it goes. That’s how it’s been going. We need to get back to that.
buh.
We had a good day, otherwise. Took a long walk to the bridge and around the neighborhood and to the corner store (where I need to not buy anything but canned goods and butcher meat, everything else is over priced and/or spoiled, including bread that’s stale and frozen items that are freezer burned and/or rotten) and back home again. I’m trying to focus on the goodness of it, and him blowing raspberries and inventing a new game of coming up to give me a kiss and kissing my elbow instead of my cheek, and him head butting me in the butt (what is this i don’t even), and him smiling and laughing and stacking blocks and pointing out every ball he sees. But I am dang tired, and frustrated, and am really looking forward to being able to explain and reason with him. This was not a good ending to the day.
Almeda
July 30, 2010 at 7:54 am
Our daycare is out of commission till at least next(!) Monday. They’re very active and activity-packed all day. She’s …. interestingly hyper.
On the other hand, tossing her in the crib and waiting for her to nap is working amazingly well this week, and it never has before, so. On the gripping hand, I tried it at all because trying to get her to nap the OLD way (go up, lie down in bed, nurse her down) hasn’t worked at all for days, not even, last night, for bedtime. MADE OF SUCK. Almeda(Quote)
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brigid Reply:
July 30th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
Niko has a hard time sleeping any place other than home. Or in the car. We’re considering day care options, where “we” is “me.” Nesko is pretty anti-day care for no rational reason (he admits it is not rational). Our friend Kristy has pointed out that one thing day care is good for is teaching kids to fall asleep in different places. brigid(Quote)
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