Well I meant to post quite a few times and never managed it. I really wanted to post on the Penultimate Day, but it went by so fast. We used to do a Penultimate Party every year on the 30th, but now we just remember it fondly and go to bed early. It's the side effects of having 2 small children. The sad thing is we are so happy to have nothing planned and have the opportunity to go to bed early. So for the new year we moved Mary to the nursery with Emma. Until now she has been sleeping in her bassinet next to our bed. This would continue to work fine if she would not grow any more, since she is quickly becoming larger than the bassinet. So, despite the fact that she is now yet sleeping the entire night, we moved her to her crib. This first night, Emma spent an hour asking what was in Mary's crib, and then proclaimed "uh-oh!" to let us know that she had woken Mary up by her incessant (and loud) inquiries. The second night when Mary got up to eat, the two girls spent an additional 1 1/2 hours (starting at 3:30 AM) "talking" between themselves. We all got up crabby the next day from lack of sleep.
I think it is going well, don't you?
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I started putting mine to bed at seven thirty this evening, and after bath, books, and all the usual hand-shaking and back-patting, both children were AS AWAKE AS POSSIBLE and continued to be so, on into the night, yea even unto 11:00pm and beyond. Benny kept popping up and turning his light on to read. Sadie was just awake. At prolly almost midnight I was still laying her back down in her bed and saying, "Dear baby, you have to go to sleep now, Love, Mommy" as she screamed her head off and tried to claw her way up my arm... GOOD TIMES!!!
So hey, I can't even imagine the utter joy and harmony and peace I'd be experiencing if they were in the same room together. I'm having a hard time and mine are on SEPARATE FLOORS.
Caleb recently moved out of his crib and into the bottom bunk of the bunk beds. Even though he is the largest 23 month old on earth, he still looks so tiny curled up asleep in a "real bed". It doesn't take long for them to be used to the other in the room and they will sleep through amazingly "loud" demonstrations. My own kids were 15 months apart and slept in the same room from the first day. I survived (didn't I?)
Suzze
We spent New Year's Eve in Mackinaw City with Dominik. As we walked into the motel room, Dominik said, "Hey, there's only two beds. Where is Bill going to sleep?" (he rightly assigned the beds to himself and his grandma!) As it was, he slept on a sleeping bag on the floor, only to wake at 1:30 AM crying for his Leapster. 2005 started with a lack of sleep for us all - some things never change. Linda
What does Penultimate Day mean?
Be glad right now your girls sleep in their own beds.
Later, they'll get up and come crawling into your
bed --- remember when elbows and knees stuck you
inside when you were pregnant? Same thing happens
when they share a bed, except it hurts more being
stuck outside the skin! Some nights, I would sleep
in 4 different beds: put the kids in their own
beds, get in mine. Tracy comes paddling in -- takes
up a lot of room. I move to Tracy's empty bed (twin
bed size). Ryan finds me an hour later and goes to sleep crosswise so I move again..... and again.....
Auntie McB
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