Sleep Experiment: Morning 1

Today I heard R moving around about 4:45 but left her alone until a little after 5:00 I heard her through the monitor saying hi. hi. hiee. hhi. hi. as if she was talking to someone in her room. So I popped in there. But the good news is, she waited until 5:00 to wake up. In my last post, CraftyQueen suggested it might take a few mornings to get her to sleep later. Let's hope! I'm aiming for a 5:30-6:00 wake up-- I think that would make it a bit more rushed to get her to eat and get ready for day care, but definitely doable.

A Sleep Experiment

Tonight J and I talked about adjusting R's schedule to try and get her down to sleep a little later, so that maybe she will stop waking up at 4:30-5:00. So tonight we let her run around in her bedroom until close to 7, when we finally laid her down. (She's normally in bed a little bit after 6). We'll see how the experiment worked tomorrow morning. I'll keep you updated.

Morning craziness

For the last few days I've had so much to do I've been getting up at 4:30 just to get stuff done before R gets up. Whew, I'll tell you, this morning schedule is doing a job on me.

I drop R off at day care every day and J picks her up, so I'm trying to get the hang of getting R up and getting all the day care stuff pulled together. Her bag is usually fairly well assembled, but I need to fill her water and milk sippys, finish up her lunch (we don't usually cut up fruit the night before, preferring to do it in the morning, so even if other stuff is put in, I usually need to add something to it), get R fed and changed into daycare clothes, while making some coffee, eating some breakfast, and making sure I have all the stuff I'm taking in to work that day all ready.

It feels like chaos. I know, somehow, the secret is to get more organized and have everything go like clockwork, like a routine. But I'm not a good thinker-aheader. I'm a better "I've-done-this-before-and-made-this-mistake-already-so-I'm-not-going-to-make-it-again" kind of person. So I think there will invariably be some rough spots while I try to figure out the ropes.

Today, I barely made it out the door by 7:30 (R got up around 6:30) and arrived at work by 8:10. Daycare is a 15 minute walk to and 15 mins back, plus another 5-7 to work. But I only made it as early as I did because J got up and helped feed R while he was eating his breakfast.

I think it'll get easier. Right?