Do toddlers dream of electric sheep?
I need to go read some books about toddler sleep, I think. *sigh*
Corwin is finally asleep. At 12:15 a.m. After we originally put him to bed at 8.
The last few nights he has talked and banged around for a good long time, finally going to sleep in the realm of 10 or 10:30. He then wakes at his normal 7:45-8:00, and crashes hard at naptime. He's sleeping right up until 4, and then is cranky when he gets up (but generally de-crankifies after he's up a while). I haven't thus far tried to wake him earlier than 4 since he has shown a remarkable tendency to be a crankypants for the rest of the afternoon if awakened early the few times in the past that I have done so. If he doesn't take a nap for some reason (talks and plays through it), then he goes out like at light at 8. But he's cranky in the evening like he really needed a nap.
Tonight he talked and banged around for a while and then started fussing. It was pretty much like the episode we had in the middle of the night not too many nights ago, except that he never went to sleep first this time. He desperately wanted mama. Dada's attempt to comfort him was insufficient and resulted in Corwin saying "Mama" and signing "please" the entire time. I could get him calmed down, but my leaving the room would result in screaming like the poor kid was being tortured somehow. He finally fell asleep after I laid down on the floor and told him repeatedly in a stern voice to "lay down" and "stop talking" and "stop banging" as required. *sigh* NOT something I want to add to the regular bedtime routine.
Hey, on the bright side, he has added more new words to his vocabulary in the last two hours. :P There were several "up"'s (complete with ending 'p') and I've now forgotten what the other couple were. Oh, I think he said "rag" a time or two as well.
Part of me wonders if the difficulty sleeping is related to the vocabulary explosion somehow. If so, it will hopefully blow over on its own in a few days once talking stops being so new, right? In the meantime....will look for books tomorrow.
I'm taking my sleepy brain off to bed now, since I'm going to be awakened by Andrew's alarm at 5 a.m. in just over 4.5 hours now. I can usually fall back asleep afterward, but it's annoying to have that additional interruption on nights like this when I didn't get to bed at a normal time (or was up for a couple hours in the middle of the night). As I know Andrew would say, at least I don't have to GET UP when that alarm goes off, right? :P
Was mostly just writing this to kill a few minutes to make sure Corwin was going to stay asleep before I go crawl in bed. Sounds like he is. Hopefully I haven't jinxed him by writing this.
I hope you are all asleep and no one reads this until sometime tomorrow morning. :P
Corwin is finally asleep. At 12:15 a.m. After we originally put him to bed at 8.
The last few nights he has talked and banged around for a good long time, finally going to sleep in the realm of 10 or 10:30. He then wakes at his normal 7:45-8:00, and crashes hard at naptime. He's sleeping right up until 4, and then is cranky when he gets up (but generally de-crankifies after he's up a while). I haven't thus far tried to wake him earlier than 4 since he has shown a remarkable tendency to be a crankypants for the rest of the afternoon if awakened early the few times in the past that I have done so. If he doesn't take a nap for some reason (talks and plays through it), then he goes out like at light at 8. But he's cranky in the evening like he really needed a nap.
Tonight he talked and banged around for a while and then started fussing. It was pretty much like the episode we had in the middle of the night not too many nights ago, except that he never went to sleep first this time. He desperately wanted mama. Dada's attempt to comfort him was insufficient and resulted in Corwin saying "Mama" and signing "please" the entire time. I could get him calmed down, but my leaving the room would result in screaming like the poor kid was being tortured somehow. He finally fell asleep after I laid down on the floor and told him repeatedly in a stern voice to "lay down" and "stop talking" and "stop banging" as required. *sigh* NOT something I want to add to the regular bedtime routine.
Hey, on the bright side, he has added more new words to his vocabulary in the last two hours. :P There were several "up"'s (complete with ending 'p') and I've now forgotten what the other couple were. Oh, I think he said "rag" a time or two as well.
Part of me wonders if the difficulty sleeping is related to the vocabulary explosion somehow. If so, it will hopefully blow over on its own in a few days once talking stops being so new, right? In the meantime....will look for books tomorrow.
I'm taking my sleepy brain off to bed now, since I'm going to be awakened by Andrew's alarm at 5 a.m. in just over 4.5 hours now. I can usually fall back asleep afterward, but it's annoying to have that additional interruption on nights like this when I didn't get to bed at a normal time (or was up for a couple hours in the middle of the night). As I know Andrew would say, at least I don't have to GET UP when that alarm goes off, right? :P
Was mostly just writing this to kill a few minutes to make sure Corwin was going to stay asleep before I go crawl in bed. Sounds like he is. Hopefully I haven't jinxed him by writing this.
I hope you are all asleep and no one reads this until sometime tomorrow morning. :P