The girls are doing pretty well at sleeping in their beds once they fall asleep, and I don't think anyone has fallen out of their bed in the last few days. They slept straight through the night on Tuesday night and Wednesday night.
Falling asleep, though, is still agonizing. If we're lucky, they're asleep by 9:30. Becca still wants me to sit next to her and hold her hand. And Julie wants her daddy next to her. They are not ready to go to sleep when we go up there at 8 or so, and then it's an hour and a half of "Get back in your bed." "Lay down." "Please use your quiet voice." "Lay down." "Get back in your bed." "I said lay down."
Admittedly, we'd been having some trouble since we got back from vacation with the girls wanting Greg to sit in there and hold their hands, even when they were in their cribs. We hadn't quite resolved that before we were forced to go to the big girls beds.
I'll bet we get this sorted out right before we go on vacation again.
Showing posts with label big girl beds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label big girl beds. Show all posts
Friday, July 29, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Beds
This weekend was obnoxiously hot again, so we ran some errands, but pretty much stayed inside. I took the girls to Costco (Becca has started saying "we got that at the Costco"), and we did pretty well. We picked out some pajamas, and when I decided to put them back, they were totally fine with it. Amazing!
I did run into a fried with twins (they're ~6 months younger than mine) at Costco, and she mentioned that they were moving to Big Girl Beds that night. I totally think she jinxed us.
The girls had "made a statement" before by lifting their foot up on the crib railing, but it's always been for show, and they only seemed to do it when we were in there.
Well, they were up and chatting and giggling on Sunday morning, and when I went in to get them out, Julie was laying with her legs on her crib railing, and her hands on the side of Emma's crib. As in, she was out. All she had to do was shimmy backwards and lower herself down.
So nap time comes around. I'm passed out taking a nap, too, so Greg takes them in, puts them in cribs, and sits with them for a while. Once they had calmed down, Greg came down to eat lunch. A little while later, there's lots of giggling. And it gets clearer and clearer, until it's clear that there are 3 little girls at the top of the stairs. Somehow, all 3 of them managed to get out (luckily, without hurting themselves).
Greg spent the rest of the day taking down the cribs and putting together the Big Girl Beds. (So glad they were already in the garage.) We went upstairs to peek a few times, and they were SO excited about their beds. They didn't want to leave.
When bed time came around, they didn't even want to read stories together - they wanted to read in their beds. So Greg and I just left them alone, knowing full well that as soon as we left, they were up and running around. Fine. They needed to wear themselves out, and there wasn't anything we could do (except put the door stop on the door so they couldn't keep slamming it). Based on our experience with new sleeping arrangements on our trip a few weeks ago, we were prepared for them to not be asleep before 10.
I went back up around 9 when I heard some crying. And yes, it was about 10 before they went to bed. But they really did pretty well. Greg and I sat and held hands while Becca and Julie fell asleep, and then I stayed a bit longer for Emma to settle down. But there was no crying from the girls (except when Emma crashed into the edge of the guard rail), no screaming from us It could have been much worse.
Becca and Emma both fell out of bed the first night, and Julie woke up crying once.
The 2nd night was a little worse... possibly because they weren't tired when we went upstairs, they just wanted to play in their beds. It took a while for everyone to fall asleep. Becca fell out of bed once. And, around 1:30, everyone was up and crying. It took a while to calm them back down again. Well, not a while to calm down, more like a while before we could leave.
Wish us luck tonight! They went down easier, but it was later, and we'd been to the gym.
I did run into a fried with twins (they're ~6 months younger than mine) at Costco, and she mentioned that they were moving to Big Girl Beds that night. I totally think she jinxed us.
The girls had "made a statement" before by lifting their foot up on the crib railing, but it's always been for show, and they only seemed to do it when we were in there.
Well, they were up and chatting and giggling on Sunday morning, and when I went in to get them out, Julie was laying with her legs on her crib railing, and her hands on the side of Emma's crib. As in, she was out. All she had to do was shimmy backwards and lower herself down.
So nap time comes around. I'm passed out taking a nap, too, so Greg takes them in, puts them in cribs, and sits with them for a while. Once they had calmed down, Greg came down to eat lunch. A little while later, there's lots of giggling. And it gets clearer and clearer, until it's clear that there are 3 little girls at the top of the stairs. Somehow, all 3 of them managed to get out (luckily, without hurting themselves).
Greg spent the rest of the day taking down the cribs and putting together the Big Girl Beds. (So glad they were already in the garage.) We went upstairs to peek a few times, and they were SO excited about their beds. They didn't want to leave.
When bed time came around, they didn't even want to read stories together - they wanted to read in their beds. So Greg and I just left them alone, knowing full well that as soon as we left, they were up and running around. Fine. They needed to wear themselves out, and there wasn't anything we could do (except put the door stop on the door so they couldn't keep slamming it). Based on our experience with new sleeping arrangements on our trip a few weeks ago, we were prepared for them to not be asleep before 10.
I went back up around 9 when I heard some crying. And yes, it was about 10 before they went to bed. But they really did pretty well. Greg and I sat and held hands while Becca and Julie fell asleep, and then I stayed a bit longer for Emma to settle down. But there was no crying from the girls (except when Emma crashed into the edge of the guard rail), no screaming from us It could have been much worse.
Becca and Emma both fell out of bed the first night, and Julie woke up crying once.
The 2nd night was a little worse... possibly because they weren't tired when we went upstairs, they just wanted to play in their beds. It took a while for everyone to fall asleep. Becca fell out of bed once. And, around 1:30, everyone was up and crying. It took a while to calm them back down again. Well, not a while to calm down, more like a while before we could leave.
Wish us luck tonight! They went down easier, but it was later, and we'd been to the gym.
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