Musical Beds

We've had some interesting sleeping arrangements around here for awhile. Well, it all started at the end of summer when Hayley started teething, then she had a cold, then she was teething, then she got a cold...so she wasn't sleeping very well. She would wake a lot in the night and sometimes be up for a couple of hours. We made McKenna a bed on our floor and she would sleep there so that Hayley wouldn't disturb her. Then Nate started having his anxiety and he would come into our room at night. Then Ty didn't want to be in his room all by himself, so at one point we had all three kids on our floor. I think Hayley realized she was all alone on the other side of the house so she refused to sleep in her crib. She would scream and scream and scream. I can't let my babies cry it out like that so we ended up sleeping in Nate's bed with her and she would sleep really good like that. Ryan and I would take turns sleeping with her the whole night. Now that Hayley wasn't using her room we put McKenna back in her bed, and the boys on her floor. That worked for a while. Nate and Ty were sleeping really good there, so I knew they would be fine to go back into their room. We moved Hayley to our floor, and the boys back in their room.

McKenna then decided she wanted to sleep in Hayley's crib.

At least someone was using it. Ryan and I would keep trying to put Hayley in her crib and she continued to scream and freak out. Finally at one of her nap times, she cried a bit and then was quiet. She had fallen asleep. I was so excited. Then she did at night, and now she is doing it pretty regularly.

Things are starting to feel like normal again around here.

The only thing is, Hayley sleeps way better if she's sleeping with us. If she's in her crib she occasionally will sleep through the night, but most of the time she wakes up a ton and then she is awake for a couple of hours, so as nice as it is to have her in her crib, I'm tempted to move her back on our floor. I need me some sleep. We'll try a little longer but I'll do anything to get a good night's sleep.