My Year and a Half Year Old Tried to Outsmart Us.

Gianna is obsessed with my iPhone.  We hear "phone, phone phone" all day long.  


A few night ago was playing with my phone right before bed time. Per our usual routine Hubs went and grabbed Gianna's blanket and paci out of her crib and asked her if she is ready to go to bed. Usually she will run into his arms and he will take her into the room and lay her down into bed. 

Well this time it was much different.  Hubs came out of her room and into the living room with her blanket and paci and told her that it was time to go bobo. (Our version of night night.)  Instead of running into his arms she scurried out of the living room when with iPhone in hand and into her bedroom. She quickly came out of her room room empty handed. She then ran into my DH's arm and laid her head on his shoulder, as if saying "I am so ready. Take me to bed now." 


We bring her into the room and sure as hell the iPhone is in her crib. We pretend we do not see it and Hubs lays her down in her bed just to see what she does. She quickly grabs her blankets, grabs the iphone and lays down with the phone in hand and with the biggest smile on her face. 

Sneaky little kid. Tried to hide the phone in her bed so she could continue to play with it.  I have a funny feeling that if our 1.5 year old is trying to outsmart us now we are going to be in BIG trouble when she turns 13.  

Miss Gianna with *her* phone.  Not as much fun as mine. 

Breaking a Bad Habit

I have been fortunate to have always had an amazing sleeper.  By the time Gianna was 4 months old she was sleeping a solid 12 hours and taking 3 naps a day without any issues.  I didn't have to rock her, she wouldn't say a peep when I laid her down in her crib, and I never had to cheek up on her in the middle of the night. Totally lucky, I know.

Somewhere along the lines I messed it all up.  It all started about a month or two ago.  Hubs gets up at an ungodly hour in the morning to go to the gym and then comes back home to shower, eat and then leaves for work.  The mornings he works out he is up at 4:00 am and the mornings that he goes straight to work he wakes up at 5:00 am.  He said he tried his best to be very quite in the mornings but for one reason or another he always woke Gianna and I up.  On top of it all she had a horrible cold and wasn't sleeping very well due to the congestion.   So when Gianna would start crying with sleepy eyes I would go into her room, scoop her up and bring her into bed with me.  Together she and I would sleep for another two hours or so.

At first this would happen about twice a week.  I loved the snuggle time and didn't mind that I wasn't getting much sleep in the morning.  My normally non snugly toddler would curl up against me and fall asleep.   I soaked it in and told myself she is not feeling well so its ok.

Then it began to happen three times a week. Then four.  Now it happens every single morning, EVEN on the weekends.  I know that it's no longer Hubs making too much noise in the mornings because after a scolding or two he has become as quite as a mouse when her gets ready for the day.  She is no longer congested so its not that.  I could blame it on teething but she hasn't had any new teeth come through in months.  I have allowed the bed sharing to become a habit.  Plain and simple.

Gianna will now wake up after he leaves and the only thing that will calm her down is bringing her into bed with me.  I have tired rocking her, tried calming her down by rubbing her back and head while in her crib, I tried letting her cry it out with the hopes that she gives up and goes back to bed on her own.  None of it works.  I have created a monster.  She will throw an absolute fit in the wee hours of the morning until I pick her up and bring her into bed with me.  She sleeps like an angel and momma gets an hour or two of unrestful sleep.

I have started this bad habit and I need to break it.  So this is my vow.   Starting today I am going to do everything in my power to break Gianna and myself from this bed sharing habit.  Wish me luck.  I am going to need it.