Sleep? What's sleep??

For the past couple weeks Caylin has been protesting sleep again. It has been painful! I don’t know for sure the cause of this change, but I think it’s a mixture of things. I think she is realizing that Anika is here to stay, plus she wants to sleep in her toddler bed, she also had a cold and was getting her back molars. The one thing I do know is that this needs to change! We are exhausted! First I was putting her in her crib, but now she can jump out of her crib. I now have to gate her in her room. When Caylin wakes, we put her back into bed. If she stays, we don’t put the gate up, but if she runs out…the gate goes up. We ran into a problem after a couple days…Caylin started jumping over the gate. So, we have to double gate her door. Before bed, we go over “Caylin’s sleep rules” and remind her about the “treat” she will get for “following the rules”. The crying time is decreasing, but she does wake at least once a night. I was feeling so horrible about this, but actually since we’ve been enforcing this gate thing, she’s been happier during the day!

On another note, we’ve been “potty experimenting” and Caylin now goes “pee pee in the potty” whenever I go. Which is huge!!! Caylin loves to do the “pee pee dance” when she’s done!! YAY!!! I cant wait to only buy diapers for 1 child!!! We still have a long way to go though.