Friendship Blossoms

Check out this cute and simple valentines craft for your kiddies. I love Family Fun magazine. They always have great resources. The kids and I just finished ours. So cute.

Merry Christmas to us!

Merry Christmas to us, Madelyn learned how to open the doors in our house. Great! Now we'll be starting over with the bedtime wars.

Bedtime Woes: Continued

Madelyn is terrified of having the door closed so we tried the gate thing. I left the door open but the gate closed off her exit. She was getting up between 4 and 7 times throughout the night standing at the gate screaming. Which means I am up so that Avery and Daddy don't end up awake as well. So, after two nights, I closed the door. The poor baby cried herself to sleep but continued to get up about 7 times that night scared and crying. It took all my will power to ignore her. So by night 4 I got her a night light. So we could close the door but she wouldn't be frightened in the dark. Since then it takes her about an hour to fall asleep. She is playing, pulling all of the socks out of the drawers, looking at books, etc.,etc. There is a twin in her room. She insists that I tuck her in on the big girl bed, but when I go back to check on her she is in the crib. By two in the morning I will find her back in the twin and sometime around 5 she gets into the crib again. No wonder this girl is taking fantastic naps lately. Poor thing. Have I made a mistake with the night light? Is she going to set a bad pattern in which she can't sleep through the night anymore? This girl is driving me crazy. I get up more with her than I ever did with my newborns. I am tired enough form this pregnancy. I feel like a walking zombie.

PS- Don't forget to leave me you email. I plan on going private by the end of the week.

Bedtime Woes

When Avery turned two we decided it was time to put her in a big girl bed. I really didn't want to but Madelyn was going to be needing the crib in only a few months so we made the leap. I thought I would never survive. I remember sitting at the top of the stairs balling while Avery sat screaming in her bedroom because we had to close the door to keep her in. We would threaten to close the door or put up the gate if she got out of bed and it soon convinced her.
Well, here we go again. Madelyn has learned how to climb out of her crib. We are having serious problems because she isn't getting the fact that if gets out of bed we close the door. And she is furious that we keep closing the door. Madelyn is so tired and irritable from getting up an hour and a half early standing at the door screaming and going to bed an hour late standing at the door screaming. Nap-time is an issue now too. I am exhausted.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Also, what is your opinion about sharing rooms? I would like Avery and Madelyn to share a room but I only have one queen bed that Avery currently sleeps in. I would like to keep the queen so that I have a place for company to sleep but is it too awkward to have the little girls share the same bed. Would that hurt or help my problem? I am afraid that Madelyn is such a wild sleeper that she will beat up Avery. I also worry that they will get each other up even earlier. What is your take?

Happy Haunting!

Princess Avery