The past few nights Mallory has had some sleeping problems. I don’t know if it was because her schedule was so wacky from our weekend trip or it could be that her second molars are starting to come in, but she will go down for bed fine but about an hour later she is up SCREAMING for me. I am not so good at getting her to lie back down (or is it lay?); Rick can usually go in and tell her to go back to sleep and she will. But I can’t stand seeing her face all blotchy and red and screaming MOMMY MOMMY MOMMY…so the nights that Rick isn’t home, I will bring her upstairs to bed with me and she’ll fall right asleep.
Then came last night – Rick was home so he went in to her room to calm her down and she just wanted to get up. I guess she asked where I was and when Rick told her I was upstairs in bed asleep, she stuck her lower lip out and started to cry again. Then he said “are you ready to get into your bed and go to sleep?”, she said “no”….but when he asked her if she wanted to come upstairs and go to sleep with mommy, she said yes and walked right to the door and tried to open it.
Rick came upstairs to report all of this and scolded me for creating a monster – but what am I supposed to do when she is soooooo sad and we both need to sleep? Is it so bad that I want to cuddle with my sweet baby girl?