Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Sleep

I was a super stressed out mom with Caleb. Now I've moved to not so stressed with Annika. Also I think Annika has a more easy going personality and has naturally developed sleep habits. I tried and tried to get Caleb on some sort of schedule when he was little and had the hardest time. So now he falls asleep going on a walk in the stroll (winter, spring, fall and summer), and has developed a late schedule of going to sleep somewhere between 9:30 and 10:00 and waking up somewhere between 7 and 9. It works. I finally gave us stressing about it. But now Annika is a typical early to be, early to rise baby. She usually goes to sleep somewhere between 7 and 8 (only tonight Caleb happly running and shouting through the house woke her up around 7:40) and wakes up happy as can be between 6 and 7. That leaves my mom and I little time to get things done that need to be done without kids around. So this morning I woke Caleb up at 8:10. He was not ready to get up and told me to turn the light off, go out and shut the door. The light was the sun so we couldn't turn it off. I did leave and shut the door but then he was upset because it was light and he was tired and it was "still night" and thus not supposed to be light yet. It was pretty funny hearing him tell me to leave. :) He's a lot like me in that he takes a long time to fall asleep at night and is always begging me to stay. Then when he wakes up he wants to still sleep. That's totally how I am, why is it that it is so hard to get to sleep at night and then in the morning so hard to get up and out of bed?

1 comment:

Jill said...

Annika sleeps for 10 hours at a time?!? Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!