Thanks for the kind words and thoughts about our pup. It is weird around here without her, but also a big relief that its over. We are doing pretty well. Emma is processing it, but not too sad as far as I can tell. More on this soon.
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I can’t believe that I am having to think about planning BIRTHDAY PARTIES already! What???? 2 years and 4 years, holy moly. This year I think we are going to separate Emma’s from Elsie’s and Delia’s, and let Emma have a "big kid" party (probably at her gymnastics studio) a few days before her actual birthday. This is the first year she has school friends to invite, kids who’s parents I don’t know all that well, yeeps! How grown up! Elsie and Delia will have a party at home a few days after theirs, two weekends later. And since they don’t really have friends yet (oh, poor second children who don’t get the playgroup action!), it will be a fun but eclectic assortment of neighbors, adult friends, and assorted children of various ages. Hopefully we have the great weather we’ve lucked out on the past two years so we can have it outside!
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I am back to contemplating (enacting!) nightweaning. I know, its about time! But they are my babies! And the nursing & cuddles are so much better at night (than during the busy and distraction filled day), its hard to give it up. But sleep has been worse again, and while I don’t nurse them at every wakeup (usually once or twice, but not always at the same time though which is the big problem) I think I need to cut them out completely to see if that helps them sleep longer/better and wakeup less.
The reason I have been holding out this far is because if I do nurse them, I get much longer stretches, if I don’t, they go back to sleep, then wake up in an hour or two and cry/holler again. And then there’s the morning issue: thanks to daylight savings time (and just how they are right now, I think it was sort of happening before, too) they wake up at 5 and if I nurse them they go back to sleep for another hour or so, if I don’t we are all UP! And that sucks!
So, my plan is say no nursing until 2AM, and then keep pushing it back until we are to 5am or so and see if sticking with that one nursing helps. I still have my sights set on 2 years old for sleeping through since thats when Emma did. We’ll see if that actually happens, ha ha. I think its highly possible, since they’ve already had periods of pretty much doing that already.
Anyway, change is hard, and this is a chore I am not looking forward to. But, I have a feeling it will go smoothly if I can just stick with it for a few days…
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