It seems that Jay and I are battling yet another flurry of developmental leaps forward for Caroline that are disturbing her sleep. Caroline's linguistic skills seem to be advancing at an exponential rate just as her ability to control her bladder continues to astound us. I also think she's getting her last two baby teeth for a while; her final two 2-year molars are threatening to break through her upper gums. Anyway, there's been quite a bit of night-waking and super early-rising for the past week, the likes of which we haven't seen since she started walking.
This morning, Caroline woke before 6am to delight us with her blood-curdling shrieks and cries for a while before I convinced Jay to rescue her so I could sleep. Last night, she insisted on another "nap"* at 2:30am and I caved. If this continues tonight, I'm thinking the white noise machine is going to get cranked to 11 and Jay's earplugs are going to get some use. If Jay doesn't get some good sleep soon, I foresee something like The Shinning** happening in our house.
*See the 9 Jan 2006 post for the CJZ definition of "nap".
**Not to be confused with "The Shining", by Stephen King or the film of the same name directed by the late Stanley Kubrick. This references The Simpsons, Treehouse of Horror V (2F03) which references the aforementioned works. Sort of. Go on and check it out.
posted by Cheryl @ 10:28 AM
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Let's bask in television's warm glowing warming glow. Urge to kill fading, fading, rising, fading...
As one currently getting little sleep also, I will not mock your situation. There is nothing in the world worse than not getting enough sleep at night, and all the childless people in the world should kiss their pillows every morning in thanksgiving for the precious gift of sleep.
So does this mean young Caroline will be potty training soon? If that's the case, maybe there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Caroline will be 2 this coming summer, right? Think about it, if Caroline's averaged 8 diapers a day, you've now changed around 4320 diapers and spent about $1080 on diapers. If these moves are towards potty-training, that would be a good, good thing.
I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.
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