I am amazed by the fact that my youngest child is four years old and yet I do not get a solid night's sleep more that 3-4 times a week. That means that somebody is waking me up in the middle of the night at least 2-3 times a week, sometimes more. More specifically, it's Sarah or Amanda. Andy has always been an amazing sleeper and I can't even remember the last time he got up at night, but the girls are horrible.
I'm pretty sure I posted about the long stretch where Amanda would call us into her room because she needed her blanket adjusted. I thought that would never end. Now her thing is her music. We went for a bit without putting music on before they went to sleep, but we got back into the habit a few months ago. Now, if she wakes up in the middle of the night she wants her music on. She does not understand why she is in bed and the music is off and has no concept of the fact that the CD only plays 10 songs and then shuts off.
We've told her to just roll over and even given her permission to get out of bed and start the CD player again by herself, but she doesn't want to do that. She wants us to do it. Then there's other crazy things she wants to tell us or let us know while we are trying to sleep. I've gotten out of bed so that she could just hug me and then roll over and go back to sleep. The other day she called out around 5:30 a.m. and when Charlie went into her room she asked him if it was Thanksgiving yet. Um, no, we'll let you know that one, and since we'll be in Miami you'll probably have a good idea when it's coming.
We thought the time change was going to be difficult but the transition actually wasn't that bad. Charlie has trained the girls that they cannot get out of bed until 7:00 a.m. They know what it looks like on the clock. On Sunday morning Amanda asked Charlie why it took so long for the clock to get to 7:00, but she did not wake us up. Now if she could just keep from doing that in the middle of the night we'd be all set.
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