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Thank you all for playing! I will announce the names of the winners as soon as I hear back from all of them. And I will try to do my limited skills analysis – it might take me awhile – but I think there’s some interesting stuff in those comments!
In other news, the baby has decided that she likes to take a quick nap anywhere between 6:30 and 7:30. Which is fine – I get some time to myself – always appreciated – but she doesn’t sleep long and then I can’t get her to go to sleep for the night until somewhere between 11 and 12. The evening nap isn’t really long enough for me to get anything done and then she goes to bed so late I don’t get anything done at night either. It’s frustrating. Yesterday I was trying to keep her awake but she was so cranky and practically just fell asleep anyway that I couldn’t keep her up. She did manage to go to sleep for the night at around 10:30 – but then I did too. (Of course then I was up at 6:30 unable to go back to sleep!)
We’re doing a trial of a new (to us) class today at The Little Gym. My sister’s kids have all taken classes there forever and I’ve been to a bunch of them. When they opened one close to us I jokingly told myself that now I could have a kid. And here we are. Monday we start up our music classes again. I think Meli’s really going to love it and it gets us out of the house. Winter is hard.
I still haven’t measured those swatches. Maybe I can do it now – the baby’s still asleep….
Sorry to hear Meli is changing everyone’s sleep schedule. I don’t remember my children ever doing that, but we had a pretty set schedule and they must have known that I wouldn’t be able to deal with any changes.
Enjoy your music classes – they sound like fun.
That’s so interesting – my son (probably six or so months older than your daughter) went through the exact same thing at her age. And, just as the previous commenter said, he was ready to transition to one less nap per day. He was still taking three naps, one morning, one afternoon, and one evening, and that evening nap, one day, became TROUBLE. (Isn’t it amazing, and so cool, that some developmental and behavioral changes take place one day to the next, like a biological switch is flipped in their brains and bodies. I find it fascinating.) Anyway, I just kept him up and bouncing around during the time he’d previously take his evening nap, then put him to bed a bit earlier to compensate. Within a few days, his sleep pattern had changed. He didn’t get up earlier in the morning, either — I’ve found that the time he spends napping and sleeping each day can be calculated almost mathematically – e.g., one less hour spent napping is balanced by one more hour spent sleeping at night, taking into account that his need for sleep has decreased somewhat as he’s gotten older. Maybe that’s just him, though. Hope my bit of mommy experience helps…. (BTW, I’m an older mommy, too — 38 when I had my son — and I’m really enjoying keeping up with your daughter’s, and your, changes and growth. Mommyhood – the hugest blessing and gift, beyond anything I could have imagined! 🙂 )
This is just what happens, alas. Mine all did that too. I found it helpful to decide what time was going to be bedtime …say 8pm…and try to push all the other nap times up a bit to close the gap to the last one. And to start the bath/bedtime routine at the right time to suit the chosen bedtime.
It’s really worth spending time getting this bedtime routine right because otherwise you’ll have a grumpy child messing around all evening for years and years. And YEARS. Keep it short and simple ie bath, feed, cot, night-night, light off and GO. No 26 nursery rhymes, no kissing all the 200 stuffed toys, no tapdance routines. Simple set of cues at the end of which the baby knows the next step is to go to sleep. You can slot in a story when they’re a bit older, in place of the feed.
It gets worse when they have no naps at all, btw, so enjoy them while you can!
i swear by a back carry in a sling. you can get a lot of stuff done while they sleep or rest on your back. it’s also good for soothing the late night crazies.
Lucy did that for a little while when she was around 8 months or so…and then a month later, she was back to a *wonderful* 8 pm bedtime. Good luck!
Hey, no advice here, just compassion and good wishes. Every kid is so different. It, like all the rest, works itself out and this time next week, month, year, you won’t even remember it. I do remember being astonished at the switch thing mentioned. It’s like, one day they can’t talk, the next day they have a twenty work vocab and it is like they have been saying those words all along. Crazy. I’m just so glad to read a bit more about you and Meli and all that! Hope you can keep fitting it in.
Hey, no advice here, just compassion and good wishes. Every kid is so different. It, like all the rest, works itself out and this time next week, month, year, you won’t even remember it. I do remember being astonished at the switch thing mentioned. It’s like, one day they can’t talk, the next day they have a twenty work vocab and it is like they have been saying those words all along. Crazy. I’m just so glad to read a bit more about you and Meli and all that! Hope you can keep fitting it in.
Hey, no advice here, just compassion and good wishes. Every kid is so different. It, like all the rest, works itself out and this time next week, month, year, you won’t even remember it. I do remember being astonished at the switch thing mentioned. It’s like, one day they can’t talk, the next day they have a twenty work vocab and it is like they have been saying those words all along. Crazy. I’m just so glad to read a bit more about you and Meli and all that! Hope you can keep fitting it in.
Ooops, sorry. Delete as you will.
Слава богу, что пока в Рунете в блогах достаточно честных и открытых мнений. Я имею в виду, что маркетинг в блогосфере у нас еще не развит настолько, чтобы Интернет игнорировать так же, как телик с его назойливой рекламой
Thumper’s sleep schedule always gets weird when he’s getting ready for some great developmental leap forward. Once he’s leapt, the sleep settles back into a manageable pattern. Hang in there, mama.
PS: I missed your birthday because a) I suck sometimes and b) life has been sorta hectic. Happy, happy belated birthday, my friend.
Darn! I just found you, so I missed that contest. My knitting resolution was to start as many projects as I like, without waiting to finish any. Even if I have to buy new needles to do it…
And I’ve gotten off to a fine start!
I remember this. I think I moved the afternoon nap up about 15-30 minutes, just enough that the girl slept a bit longer, and then was sleepy for the night at 8ish. Hope things work out. There’s nothing like being bonetired with a wideawake baby.