Everybody knows that saying, but few might know the mantra I've recently coined:
Need Sleep to Get Sleep
Those four words are gonna guide all my actions (on behalf of my kiddo) for the next couple of weeks.
I've recently had a no-duh, light-bulb moment that part of her fussiness (especially in the afternoons and evenings) and difficultly falling asleep is likely due to the simple fact that she's overtired--for two reasons. First, my sweet Baby Girl likes to pretend she's a year old and doesn't need to nap like a newborn (to quote Aerosmith, she "don' wanna miss a thing.") But second--and this one's on her idiot Mommy--she hasn't been going to bed anywhere near early enough.
But a change, it is 'a comin'. And I guess it's good timing that the change is coinciding with the ongoing crib acclimation because it sure would be a beast to tackle all these things separately--and they're bad enough on their own!
Stay tuned.
Her mother is not an idiot. It just takes awhile to figure out the new little creatures in our lives. Oh but God would let them talk when they come out of the womb :D
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