As soon as Little Bit hit three years old it was like . . . torture! Her lovely sleep routine went right out of the window! Here is her current sleep routine:
7:15 p.m. Bath
7:30 p.m. Two books
7:45 p.m. I leave the room
8:00 p.m. Little Bit comes out because she needs to “go potty.”
8:17 p.m. Little Bit yells she needs her closet light on. Mom turns it on.
8:25 p.m. Little Bit yells she needs to closet light off because it hurts her eyes. Dad turns it off
8:36 p.m. Little Bit comes out because she “needs to tell us something.” Surprise! She has nothing to say!
8:55 p.m. Little Bit yells she needs to go potty again because she didn’t actually need to go the first time she came out.
9:27 p.m. Little Bit yells that she is afraid in her room and needs to sleep in our room. Dad goes back in and turns on the closet light.
9:48 p.m. We hear Little Bit’s door open and the pitter-patter of her feet across the hall into our room. She is surprised when she doesn’t find us in our bed and comes out to lecture us about not being in bed. SHE IS LECTURING US ABOUT OUR BEDTIME!!!!
10:03 p.m. Little Bit is finally asleep.
Would you be surprised to hear she sleeps in, thus making the whole morning routine run behind. This kid is torturing us! We have tried everything. Ok, well, not everything or we would have figured it out by now. But it feels like everything: new sheets, new PJ’s, stickers, promised movie night if she goes straight to sleep (she hasn’t succeeded yet), a train ride, a bike ride, running her around during the day, shorter naps during the day, no shows before bedtime. We can’t take away sugar at night because she doesn’t eat alot of sugar. She doesn’t get sweets unless it is a holiday or birthday and she only gets apple juice when she is sick. Ah! We are running out of ideas and low on sleep.
We are three months into this craziness. Parents, how did you survive?! Please teach me your ways. My Google must be broken because none of the suggestions worked.
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