She Slept Like A Baby

In other words, was up every hour on the hour. Last night Ellie wasn't able to go to bed until 8 pm. The kid has a very strict internal sleeping clock. Never once has she slept in later if she stays up later. And if she has long naps, extra naps, short naps, or no naps . . . she's still ready for bed at 7. Another nasty habit she has is that at least for the past year she has never fallen asleep in any place except her crib. Anyway, we were hoping 8 wouldn't be too bad . . . but she was up screaming bloody murder at 9 pm. We sang to her, rocked her, held her . . . she fell asleep but woke up screaming the second we moved or put her down. So we brought her to bed with us.

We've done this only a few times -- mostly because it's the exact same every time. No one sleeps! She's flip-flopping like a fish on land all night -- all over the place. At the beginning of the night she was between us. At another point she had crawled over me into the corner and fell off the bed head first -- I grabbed her halfway down before she busted her head. But the worst part is that she was up for good at freaking 5:30 am. Just shoot me!