Thursday, October 7, 2010

Sleep Deprivation Redux

(By Aaron)

You may remember how sleep deprived we were about 2 weeks after the girls were born. Well, I guess we're not totally out of the woods yet.

Penny has been sick, and not sleeping well. Her nose is runny and it takes her a long time to finally relax enough to breathe and doze off. Last night, after crying for about 30 minutes, Julie took her into the bed to nurse her to help her fall asleep. (We know - nursing to help a child fall asleep is a bad precedent. We want them to be able to put themselves to sleep.)

In this particular case, nursing helped both Penny AND Julie fall asleep. I came in to go to bed around 11:30.

Me: It's time to go to bed.
Julie: What time is it?
Me: 11:30
Julie: What time is it?
Me: 11:30
...
Julie: What time is it?
Me: It's 11:30.
...
Julie: No. What time is it in our time?
Me: 11:30.
Julie: Huh? Oh.

:)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

She's had sleep deprivation since I've known her in the 8th grade! I don't think she was a baby mama then! Oh, well, she did have Toby...

Grammie/Julie said...

Ahhhh....thats cute! Hope you are well-rested now Julie. Sorry to hear sweet Penny has a cold....is she feeling better? Love you all, and give the girlies hugs and kisses from Grammie.