Is it just me, or do you feel this way too?
And to all the Mom's with more than one child........do they play off each other? Do they get together and say, "Hey, now its your turn to drive them nuts!"
Anyway, Chachi is a poor sleeper. Since she was born, the child never slept. Never. As an infant, she had to sleep across my chest. As a toddler, still in my bed. Preschooler? Still in my bed.
BUT, the last couple months, we seemed to have broken that habit. She goes to bed at 7:30pm, watches some of her movie, and is asleep. Usually within 20 minutes or so.
Finally, right?
Wrong.
Because my once beautiful sleeper, could and would sleep anywhere, drop him in his bed and he is asleep within a minute child is now refusing to go to bed!
When do we catch a break? Since Chachi was born, there has not been a night where we had our bed to ourselves. Oh, I guess there was 1 or 2 nights in the last 4.5 years, but still. THAT IS 2 OUT OF 1644 nights! One Thousand Six Hundred and Forty-Two nights with either one or two kids in our bed! Plus a dog!
I am going a little nutty here people......a little nutty!
My kids totally tag team me and hubby seems to be their ring leader!
Posted by: Text Imps | 27 January 2009 at 06:59 PM
Mmmm...you're not alone on the sleep front. We haven't hit your number of nights yet, but that's only because Sam isn't that old:)
And yes, they TOTALLY tag team off each other! They takes turns waking up at night, the take turns screaming at me, they take turns. All day.
Posted by: Beth - Total Mom Haircut | 26 January 2009 at 04:16 PM
tag team, that is what I call it, my kids tag team on me.
when one is acting up the other is an angel.
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Posted by: Sarah (GenMom) | 22 January 2009 at 08:42 PM
that sucks. I'm NOT judging, but I think it's because out of fear that what you described may happen to us, we have never taken taken the kids to bed with us. Also, both my hubs and I are very light sleepers -- having a child in bed with us would mean that no one would sleep.
Maybe you can just go to a hotel for a night?
Posted by: Katia / Crazy for trying | 21 January 2009 at 09:20 PM