The Daily Hailey

Its no secret that Dekker excels at sleeping. He always has. There are very few specific tactics we’ve implemented, he is just a good sleeper. He has always set his own schedule, and we’ve never had to really mess with it. He naps twice a day, goes to bed around 8:30, and wakes up anywhere between 9:30am-1:00pm. In the recent past, he’s been waking up on the later end of things and not getting his second nap, which is fine! He will be 22 months in two days, and a lot of kids are down to one nap waaay earlier! So if he wants one less nap, more power to him.

Call me crazy, like I know nothing about kids (which I don’t really) but with him being down to only one nap, we’ve just been rolling with it until the last couple of days. He acts out sooo much right before bedtime. How has it not crossed my mind before tonight that less day sleep might require an earlier bedtime?!?! He’s been fussing and struggling pretty hard around 8pm recently, and tonight was probably the worst yet. He came over for snuggles and within seconds was trying to hit me. Hitting faces is just one big issue we haven’t been able to get under control. He is so mild-mannered, it amazes me how often he tries to hit people! But as I said, he tried to hit my face. I took his hands and told him we don’t hit, but he was fighting me the whole time. He’s been catching on to “Think about it” in the last couple of weeks, and sometimes he really does think about whats about to go down, and he changes it. But tonight, he was just thrashing around. He’s been like this for the last few nights, and has basically just gone right to bed, since he’s acting up and hitting both Brady and I. I really wanted a few nice moments with him tonight. I kept encouraging him to just relax for a moment and think about what he wanted to do. Finally I let go of his hands and he absolutely walloped me. Sigh. I’m sort of out of ideas with this one, but not giving up. Consistency, right? I just miss quiet, fun bedtime routine. But I’m learning that routines change up! Maybe after a little while of putting Dekker to bed a bit sooner, he won’t be so far gone and things can level out again.

I feel like a bit of a failure that I haven’t thought of this until now! But my boy is growing up, and he doesn’t just sit down on the floor and rub his eyes when he’s tired anymore. He plays until someone figured it out, and then he is sooo sad to be hauled up to his room. We need to avoid that whole thing all together I think. Hopefully it gets smoother.

On a different note regarding Dekker, its been a week since we ordered his glasses and they’re not in just yet, but hopefully by the weekend. Early next week at the latest.

Also early next week, we are going to our UC-Baby ultrasound!!! We are sooo excited to get a solid tour of our baby, and another chance at learning the gender! I understand that some people genuinely prefer not to know, and I 110% respect that, but I hate calling the baby “it” and not being able to plan things the same way, or pick up that perfect little baby thing that isn’t gender neutral but is sooo irresistible. Hopefully we’ll get to find out soon! I’ll be 27 weeks at our scan, and when we went in with Dekker, I was 28 weeks along, so I’m expecting much of the same. At 28 weeks pregnant, we knew Dekker would look like Brady 🙂 Technology is nuts these days!!! So thankful for it!

After a couple of really nice of having Brady at home, he’s back to work tomorrow and I’m at home with the little ones. Time to hopefully catch up on some playtime. And dishes.