Thursday, August 7, 2008

time to go to bed Rachel - Aug. 7, 2008

Rachel does not fall asleep as early as she used to. She goes to bed by 9pm and plays till 9.30-10pm!!! (I am exhausted) She wants juice (I give her water in a color plastic cup), milk, then cookies, then has to use the potty (which we never said no of course).

She now shares the bedroom with her sister and is potty trained since early July (yes some accidents at night happen) .
Yesterday I decided to resume putting her to bed at 8.30pm and let her cry/wake up her sister. It did happen, but Natalie fell back asleep very quickly.
Now that Rachel sleeps in her new bed, she can get out and she did and appeared in the living room. She had to use the potty and wanted to draw on her board, that was Monday and Tuesday nights.
Yesterday, I prepared her to go to bed and started telling her at 8pm. By 8.30pm, the moon was out and she said "look mom, moon is high in the sky - time to go to bed" I could not believe it. So we finished the puzzle, did one drawing on the board and off to bed. She got up once and came quickly to the living room for one more drawing. "I am counting to five, you have time to draw one horse", and then off to bed. Ten minutes later, all was quite and it was only 9pm. Wow!

1 comment:

The Lowe said...

Oh Eamon's been doing the same thing and it's affecting him (=us all) even in the morning. Last night we put him back in his crib!