Small, but Mighty in Soul and Spirit

New words: wait, hard, ice, elbow, highchair, Mailee. She is loving nursery rhymes, especially Baa-baa Black Sheep and Mary Had a Little Lamb. She is also into little vs. big.

I am finally getting some sleep again. It was a very weary two weeks after she was found hanging on the outside of the crib at two a.m. screaming because her leg was twisted through the slats. Down came the crib and she was free at last. She was very happy to get a toddler bed (I just didn't feel good about using the twin yet), but liked to get up every hour and run into my room. Up went the gate, but then I would climb over to go and comfort her and one night ended up sleeping on the floor in her room. I decided to get tough because I couldn't make it through work with no sleep and she is finally sleeping through the night again, although I did let her back in my bed at 4:30 this morning. I do really well with holding the line up until about 4 o'clock, but if she gets up after that I am not in my right mind and just want to do whatever it takes to close my eyes. Now that the sleep issue is underhand we are going to work on prompt obedience. She is so adorable it makes it hard to enforce things sometimes but I keep telling myself it's the foundation of her character that we are laying here.