Lack of sleep

It's been about 2 weeks now since Siena decided that she was not going to go down for a nap or bed time with out throwing a huge fit and by fit I mean screaming "Mommy" or "daddy" or just crying for HOURS in her crib standing up.

Last night was the final straw.  She fell asleep on my lap on the couch (both kids did).  We got her to bed which was a miracle of it's own because she would normally wake up and start screaming as well.  Well at midnight last night Siena woke up.  For about 10 minutes I laid there hoping she would go back to sleep.  Didn't happen.  So I went in and checked her diaper, changed it because it was kind of wet, and told her it was still bed time and good night.  Well that back fired on me.  Siena was up until 3:30 screaming at us.  Mike went in there once and sat next to the crib and held her hand and she fell asleep for 20 minutes and then was up again screaming at us.  Cole came in to our room at 1am because as he said "mommy siena is screaming and I can't sleep".  Finally at 3:30 we gave up and Mike brought her in bed with us and she was silent.

We are both at our wits end with her and her lack of sleeping.


I have to make Cole's cake tonight for his party tomorrow.

Red food coloring galore.  I don't like red velvet cake mix.  Yuck!  But Cole wanted a cake that looked like blood.

It's going to take forever to frost this thing.

Nap time violence

Poor guy was so tired that even sleeping on hardwood and being kicked in the head would not wake him up!

Nap time keeps getting worse

He is now sleeping in the hallway. At some point he has got to get over this fear of his bedroom and the door being closed.

Nightmare naptime

Starting on Friday, Cole has been freaking out at nap time. He starts crying "no nap, no nap" and then when you leave his room he screams and hits the door for up to two hours. Now we go in there every 10 minutes or so to calm him down but he went from 3 hours naps with no problem to a sudden meltdown. We approached nap time a little differently today. First we took down his bug night lights because he kept pointing at them and saying "no bug, bad bug". Then we tried our normal routine which of course failed. So the next step was to leave his door open. I told him that it was nap time and he needed to get on his bed. I also told him that I would leave the door open but he could not come out of his room. I stayed on the couch where I could keep and eye on him and it took about 30 minutes but he finally fell asleep. He looked at some books before making an alligator bed and passing out. He was super quite the entire time so I was surprised when I peeked in and found him asleep. I closed the door so we could watch a movie and about an hour and a half later he woke up crying "open door, open door". Poor guy. The only other thing we can think of that may of had an effect on him was that his current favorite movie is Monster's Inc. And basically that movie revolves around monsters, bedtime, closed doors, and scaring kids. So "Monsters" as Cole calls it, has been shelved right next to Ghostbusters. Lets hope we can get back on track with nap times this week.

What happens when you let a 2 1/2 year old take a chocolate covered granola bar to nap time.

He falls asleep on it and gets chocolate everywhere. Last week I let him take a "posicile" (popcicle) to nap time and he fell asleep on top of that too. I found the stick stuck to his shirt.

Waking the beast

Cole fell asleep in the car on the way home from grocery shopping.  When that happens then nap time is screwed.  Since it was so early (10:45am) when we got home, we woke him up and gave him lunch.  Then at 12:30 we put him down for his nap.....I guess I should of said we put him down for play time.  That kid did not sleep!  We went in there many times and put him in his bed and each time he would get up.  We removed toys, turned off lights, took away water, etc.. until we had finally had it with him not sleeping.  At 2:30 we let him out.  Hey if he isn't going to sleep, he has to at least rest in his room.  MOM NEEDS NAP TIMES TO RECOUP OR SHE GETS VERY UNHAPPY!!!!!!!!!

So we decided to go to the park.  It was little to windy and Siena wanted to eat the whole time so we packed it up and went home.  Well guess who fell asleep on the 10 minute ride home.  So it is now a quarter to 5 and if we let him sleep to long then it screws with bed time but he really seems tired.  So we opted for a 30 minute nap and that we would wake him up at 5:15pm.  

This kid would not budge from our tickles, pokes, calling his name, etc.. so we enlisted Onyx to help.  She started at the hands and then licked his face up and down.  He still didn't wake up!  I guess he really was tired.  About 5 minutes later we got him up.  He was cute at first but them he went into crazy mode where his is hungry, thirsty, crabby, hold me don't hold me, I didn't ask for food or a drink mood.  So I stuck him in his room because he was whining and screaming.  I held him down breifly since he was trying to hit me and told him if he didn't stop crying I was closing the door and he could stay by himself.  He responded with an "oh ya ya".  I got up, closed the door and walked out.  He continued screaming and I waited for the head butt on the door, but it never came.  Five minutes later Mike went in and he was still on his bed crying.  

It took another 30 minutes before he would not try to hit us.  He played alone and came out of his room when he was no longer grumpy.

Moral of the story:  Don't wake the sleeping beast unless you want to lose an eye.