help!
i'm at a loss here for what to do.
on the weekends, tae doesn't like to go out. she prefers to stay home and hang out with me. for the past three weekends, we have gone out in the car exactly TWO times. she is ok with walking to gymnastics and going to get coffee, but other than that, she apparently loathes going out. she has me only slightly wrapped around her little finger - what am i supposed to do when she says, "i just want to stay here and hang out with you because i looove you!"
so that's the first problem - i don't know how to get her out of the house on the weekends. my hunch is that i need to plan ahead more, build in more routines - since she is fine going to gymnastics on sundays, and she is fine leaving the house during the week.
here's the second problem - she doesn't nap. she has never really napped without going out in the car or in the stroller. so yesterday, after giving her 30 minutes to mentally prepare, we left for the grocery store. and as we drove home, she started to zone out, and by the time we got home at 4pm, she was conked out.
napping at 4pm is always kind of awkward, so i decided to give it a shot and tried to wake her up at 6pm. i offered her snacks, playing, music, everything... and she just faded right back to sleep, and finally asked for her pajamas at 7:30pm.
this was not a good sign. i got in bed around 10:30pm, anticipating an early morning. but nothing could have prepared me for what happened at 2:45am. 2:45am (mind you, this is after she had me up fetching her food between 1:30am and 2:30am - this is always a precursor to waking up for her.)
"mommy, i want to get up. mommy, come play!"
next, i feel little hands under my neck and back - she was trying to physically lift me up. next, she is smothering me with kisses. "mommy, it's wake up time."
that was at 3:00am. she read to her self for about 20 minutes (oh the irony, in my semi-delusional state, i heard her reciting "don't let the pigeon stay up late!"), and then played around with my ipod for another 10. and at 3:30am, she was up, and i was up.
after playing for 4 hours, she was ready to go to school at 7:30am. her teacher was a little surprised to see us, since we typically arrive at like 9:00am.
i am so wide awake now, but we'll see how i am at 3pm. YAWN.
on the weekends, tae doesn't like to go out. she prefers to stay home and hang out with me. for the past three weekends, we have gone out in the car exactly TWO times. she is ok with walking to gymnastics and going to get coffee, but other than that, she apparently loathes going out. she has me only slightly wrapped around her little finger - what am i supposed to do when she says, "i just want to stay here and hang out with you because i looove you!"
so that's the first problem - i don't know how to get her out of the house on the weekends. my hunch is that i need to plan ahead more, build in more routines - since she is fine going to gymnastics on sundays, and she is fine leaving the house during the week.
here's the second problem - she doesn't nap. she has never really napped without going out in the car or in the stroller. so yesterday, after giving her 30 minutes to mentally prepare, we left for the grocery store. and as we drove home, she started to zone out, and by the time we got home at 4pm, she was conked out.
napping at 4pm is always kind of awkward, so i decided to give it a shot and tried to wake her up at 6pm. i offered her snacks, playing, music, everything... and she just faded right back to sleep, and finally asked for her pajamas at 7:30pm.
this was not a good sign. i got in bed around 10:30pm, anticipating an early morning. but nothing could have prepared me for what happened at 2:45am. 2:45am (mind you, this is after she had me up fetching her food between 1:30am and 2:30am - this is always a precursor to waking up for her.)
"mommy, i want to get up. mommy, come play!"
next, i feel little hands under my neck and back - she was trying to physically lift me up. next, she is smothering me with kisses. "mommy, it's wake up time."
that was at 3:00am. she read to her self for about 20 minutes (oh the irony, in my semi-delusional state, i heard her reciting "don't let the pigeon stay up late!"), and then played around with my ipod for another 10. and at 3:30am, she was up, and i was up.
after playing for 4 hours, she was ready to go to school at 7:30am. her teacher was a little surprised to see us, since we typically arrive at like 9:00am.
i am so wide awake now, but we'll see how i am at 3pm. YAWN.