I would force it, but I also have no experience on this particular parental front. The wife and I had a rule that there would be no kids sleeping in our room after they were infants. Most of my three were sleeping in their own rooms by the time they were 6 months, and before then they never slept in the bed.
Now my two girls are in the same room in bunk beds, and my little guy is in his own room. I find it kind of funny when one of the girls goes to a sleepover, and the one still at home complains about having to sleep by herself. I always have to remind them that their 5 year old brother is the only one in the house that should be able to complain about sleeping by himself, but he's never known any different. It's the one thing that he doesn't complain about.
Yeah, I know this is one of the arguments against cosleeping, the inevitable struggle over ending it when the time comes. But we think it's been worth it otherwise, especially for the first year while the baby's nursing. The wife could just roll over, nurse the baby, roll back over when done. It was tough to get the oldest out of our room, but the middle one was easy since she was happy to move in with her sister. This one's proving to be more stubborn, and it doesn't help that her sisters don't want to change the status quo either. I keep telling the wife we just need to force it and deal with a few rough nights to get over the hump, but so far the desire to sleep peacefully has won. :)
Our nightly routine is to go up to bed and read for about a half an hour before we turn out the lights, and usually she'd fall asleep while we're reading or right after lights-out. But lately she's wanted to stay downstairs playing with her sisters for a while, and then when she comes upstairs she's still a bit amped and restless. Last night she took like half an hour to wind down and fall asleep, and we were both anxiously awaiting that moment if you know what I mean
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Are you a professional photographer? Fascinating if you are. I have two others on my flist that are professional photographers. Both are Russian.
Don't know what to tell you about extra babies and bedrooms. I only had one, who always had his own room.
o/t Since I hate politics but love to read, there is a book I highly recommend. It's called the Other Typist. I just finished it and I loved it. That actress Kiera Knightly optioned the book and it's going to be film starring her. Don't how in the world they are going to do it, but the book is amazng.
No I don't .....wish I could, but I don't have anything other then a measly computer. Don't have photoshoppe or animation etc. I love animation! In photographs I love....drumrolll....cinemagraphs. I love a still photograph with a small detail moving.
The Other Typist is set in the mid 1920's in a typing pool at a police station. They type down the interrogations, etc. That's all I'm going to say about that!
Aha, nice to have a name for that effect! I agree, it definitely adds a lot of visual interest. I'll have to look into how those are made, might be fun to try now and then. :)
Yeah, our oldest slept on our floor for a while because we kicked her out of our bed but she didn't want to leave our room. She did fine once she was out, though! We'll figure something out, we just need to make a plan and actually stick with it.
Ugh, the GOP are a bunch of complete lunatics these days--or, at least, the ones that aren't lunatics are too damned afraid to stand up to the ones that are.
Oh, you don't have to tell me about the Lego sets. I Have about 60 or 70 myself. Licensed properties are the worst. You basically HAVE to get them while they're still in stores. Lego rarely re-releases sets, and usually not at all for licensed stuff (even the Star Wars ones they've re-issued were new sets with different builds, not direct reissues of the old sets. I do Space, Star Wars, Exo-Force and Pirates, but I usually only get the sets I like in each property because I like doing things like eating and paying my mortgage. The Pirate ships shoot up the second they go out of print (literally will double their retail price inside of a month). I'm still kicking myself for not getting the two Pirates of the Caribbean sets that went out of print last year because I just couldn't swing the $100 each at the time - now they go for $3-400 :-(
Yeah, it would add up fast if I bought all the sets that look good to me! I liked the Indiana Jones sets, but when they were in stores the girls had no idea who he was and didn't really care. Figures they'd get obsessed with him 4 years later. :) eBay isn't so bad if you don't mind used sets with a couple missing pieces--it's the mint-in-box sets that people ask the crazy prices for. We got into Harry Potter and I had pretty good luck scoring a couple big lots of HP sets for reasonable prices on eBay. Patience is the key. And last-minute auction sniping, of course. ;)
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Now my two girls are in the same room in bunk beds, and my little guy is in his own room. I find it kind of funny when one of the girls goes to a sleepover, and the one still at home complains about having to sleep by herself. I always have to remind them that their 5 year old brother is the only one in the house that should be able to complain about sleeping by himself, but he's never known any different. It's the one thing that he doesn't complain about.
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Don't know what to tell you about extra babies and bedrooms. I only had one, who always had his own room.
o/t Since I hate politics but love to read, there is a book I highly recommend. It's called the Other Typist. I just finished it and I loved it. That actress Kiera Knightly optioned the book and it's going to be film starring her. Don't how in the world they are going to do it, but the book is amazng.
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The Other Typist is set in the mid 1920's in a typing pool at a police station. They type down the interrogations, etc. That's all I'm going to say about that!
Here is a great collection of cinemagraphs
http://imgur.com/r/Cinemagraphs
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Ugh, the GOP are a bunch of complete lunatics these days--or, at least, the ones that aren't lunatics are too damned afraid to stand up to the ones that are.
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