Lydia has always been the great sleeping baby. She usually sleeps 7pm-7am with a 2 hour nap. Here’s our normal routine…with Lydia’s two year old additions in purple…
1. Brush teeth.
2. Pajamas & diaper.
3. Read story. (Right now it’s The Mouse & the Motorcycle)
4. Pray
4b. Talk to the baby. This can be a 20 minute conversation…
5. Kiss & hug.
5b. Including eskimo kisses, bunny kisses and long kisses.
6. “Rock the baby”
7. I say, “Night Night I love you.”
7b.
Lydia says, “What you do when I sleeping?”
Me: “I’lldo the dishes,do the laundry,pay the bills, get online.”
Lydia: “Then what?”
Me: I don’t know, baby. Night, night.
Lydia: “What you do why I’m sleeping?”
Me: I’ll just rest, baby. Night, night.
(this continues about 40 times until I get the courage to run out of the room)
8. Close the door.
8b. Lydia: “Don’t close the dooooooooor!”
8c. Leave door open.
8d. Lydia: “What are you doing why I’m sleeping? Mommy? MOMMY!”
8e. Crying for 10 minutes AT LEAST, by Lydia and Mommy.
9. Quiet for 12 hours.
I’m just glad I’m not the only one going through this. Mr. Best Investments is too. Of course, his child has an ear infection. Could I be ignoring the signs of an ear infection for 3 weeks? *sigh*
ps…the new step 10 is happening now…
10. Curl on the couch in fetal position with jelly bellys and computer & wonder how long is TOO long to let a child cry…
Aw, poor Lydia. And poor Amanda! The bedtime/naptime routine can be rough. I think they’re just trying to see how far they can push it these days. I hope she’s done crying now!
Sorry Rootbeer, but I’ve never been able to even write your first sentence … so in response to your last sentence – I’m thinking it’s about 2-1/2 years!
Hang in there, girl! My cherubs are 2 years apart and it does seem a little rough in the beginning, like TWO babies…diapers, etc. But it DOES get easier and it’s amazing how fast the older grows up once the ‘new’ little one comes! Hope you have a early evening tonite!! Do ya watch Amer Idol? Final 2 tonite! 🙂
Having four kids, they are all so different and so have been their bedtime routines. Isabelle loved bed time and told us to leave her room at 18 months. She would say, “mama. baba (bottle).” and then, “ganx. go.”
Um, I’m the poster mom for what NOT to do at bedtime! But if you happen to need advice on some other aspect of parenting, I’ll be over here, rocking my almost two-year old to sleep.
Oh, dear. Yes, yes, yes, this is a wide-spread 2 year old conspiracy. I typically get an 11pm crying fit thrown in there, too. sigh…
PS – how do I get on your ohbloggirls list? 😉
Bedtime with Son has become a bit like sitting through a timeshare sales pitch. I’m just sitting there, knowing exactly what he’s going to say, how I’m going to respond, and thinking about how to make as speedy an exit as possible.
And it turns out I was half-right about the ear infection as the cause of his bedtime highjinks. The infection is gone now, but he’s still being a booger.
I think a lot of the commotion in our house is driven by Son being a 2 year old. Nothing more, nothing less.
poor thing 🙁 Maybe it is a sickness, maybe it’s just her growing aware of the fact that she can decide to stay awake if she wants. Conner went through that for about a week and it was awful b/c he hadn’t cried at bedtime in over two years. We would just go in and tell him it was nite nite, and that he needs to rest, rest is good for his body, we rest so he can play tomorrow, stuff like that, and he got it and it hasn’t been a problem since. I hope it gets better – they never get too old for you to be upset by that kind of that.
Awww poor Lydia and mommy! Aiden does go through this when he isn’t feeling well.. BUT then there are times when he just is adjusting to something.
I tell Aiden that Momma has to go to sleep too! That seems to make him happy. Somtimes I get the “momma can sleep with Aiden” line.. But then I tell him (Shame on momma) first momma has to go potty!
I always tell him, I will come back while he is sleeping to check on him. For some reason this comforts him – could just be my kid. Who knows.
I hope lydia gets through it. Oh we also tell him – we will see him in the morning when the sun comes up. Every night.
I get called oh I don’t know 8 million times before I can get out the door. Finally I tell him, OK – gotta go! sometimes he cries, sometimes he doesn’t
Does she sleep with any “stuffed animals”? I tell Aiden on the bad nights that he has to put his “friends” to sleep… Seems to work.
GL A!
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