At nine forty it's
finally back to bed and
I resign myself
I will listen to
crying, as it gives way to<
babbles then more tears
I hate this fight, this
bedtime battle of wills, why
won't he go to sleep?
After 10 and he
goes back and forth from crying
to random words, sounds.
Sounds get quieter
further in between words and
I pray he's asleep
Ten minutes pass and
absolute silence, then a
word, a small high voice.
Twenty more minutes
it's finally quiet now
sound sleep at long last.
We've been having some sleep issues in our little abode. On Wednesday night, Sam didn't go to bed until 1 AM, we tried putting him down several times and there was tons of crying and screaming and up and down and it was just horrible. Tonight when I tried to put him down at 8:30 he was just not seeming tired at all, and just cried and cried. I let him cry for about 30 minutes, then got him up, put him back down at 9:30 and it's taken a full hour for him to go to sleep, alternating between crying and talking, then just talking and babbling.
I don't know if I'm just being paranoid or reading into things, but it almost seems like he really doesn't like his crib anymore. We've been lucky that we've been able to use it this long, and that he doesn't try to climb out of it or anything. But I am starting to think that he just doesn't like being in there anymore. Justin's Mom is going to get Sam a big boy bed for Christmas, but that's a while off, so I'm hoping that maybe he'll start going down easier before that. Otherwise we're in for a LONG two months...
Wish us luck this weekend... I'll be hoping for easier bedtimes!
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