100th POST edition

Today is my 100th post! To celebrate, I thought I'd share one of the most incredible things that has recently happened to me as a stay at home mom!!! Drum roll , please....

After not taking naps for a little over a year, SADIE HAS STARTED NAPPING AGAIN! Are you doing your happy dance??? I don't know how it happened, but during rest time over the last 2 or 3 weeks, she has fallen asleep half of the time! Maybe it's from playing outside more or a growth spurt, but she sleeps! Incredible.

Only one problem - I find myself not knowing what to do while everyone sleeps here! So today, I took some pics of them resting (because one of these days I'm not going to be able to sneak in on them and snap pics of their sweet sleeping faces)... and next, I get to go clean the bathrooms! My life is so glamorous!

She's getting SO big!!!

Every now and then I start feeling a little anxious about how quickly Sadie is getting away from me... I mean, she's practically 18 and getting ready to go off to college... well, maybe notsomuch... but she is one step closer to going to college because tonight she is sleeping without her bed rail up!!! Look at her! How is this possible... you will note, however, I have added proper padding protection and tucked that sheet in real tight - just.in.case.


Dear Jesus.... please keep my little Sadie ever so safe tucked tightly into her bed tonight.

Bedtime Blues

I really love sleep. No.... actually, I really, REALLY, love sleep. AND I HAVE NOT BEEN GETTING ENOUGH OF IT.

Problem is as follows...
- I like to stay up till 11 or so working, reading, writing, hanging with out with Eric, etc. (so I will go out on a limb right now and say that this is PARTLY my fault).
- Cole has been waking up between 4-8 times every night... apparently the boy can't get enough of me. Oh... and did I mention that Cole wants nothing to do with daddy during the night???
- Sadie has been waking up in the night "scared" needing a drink of milk and wanting her "special light" (a light that illuminates half the house at 2AM).
- When Little Missy wakes up, Coley always wakes up.
- When Coley wakes up, Little Missy sometimes wakes up.

I don't mind getting up a couple time a night... but needing to get up 9 or more times a night SENDS ME OVER THE EDGE. Do you sense the tension???

I've tried everything I know for the boy.... Sadie was a perfect Baby Wise baby... but Cole may become Baby Wise's next research project. It's gotten to the point where something has to be done.

So, last night we decided we were going to try the "cry-it-out" method... we had previously tried it... but with the kids sharing a room, it is very difficult. We knew it was going to be a big ordeal:

The boy is stubborn + has a little bit of a temper = LOTS of noise.

We planned for Eric and Sadie to camp in the basement and I was going to be noble warrior who got this boy to sleep (How does the mom always end up with this job???).

ANYWAY... I would just like to report that I received the best nights sleep that I've had in MONTHS! The child ONLY woke up when it was time to eat!!! Does he know our tricks??? Is it the snoring and sleep talking keeping him awake??? Will Eric and Sadie forever have to sleep in the basement??? We're trying again tonight... perhaps this was a fluke.